1800. ] 
during the Suwarrowan epoch, I can re- 
commend toyour notice only the Gazzetta 
Veneta privilegiata, publifhed by Zar- 
letti. 
The fpirit of tranflation becomes daily 
more and more awake in Italy... A com- 
plete tranflation of Gibbon’s Works is 
publifhed by Zatta in Venice. From the 
French the Mercurio Britannico of Mallet 
du Pan is regularly tranflated, and publifhed 
at Milan by Pirotta. For the lovers of 
_ the German language feveral diftionaries 
now appear, the newett and beft is the Dizz- 
onario Italiano eTedefco, {old by Storti inVe- 
nice. VheRuffian language begins to be cul- 
tivated too in Italy ; anda VYocabolario delle 
Parole le piu famiglari della lingua Ruffa 
has made its appearance at Milan. Nor 
have the Theologians been idle, now that 
bigotry and piety begin to breathe again, 
and the impending election of a pope ex- 
cites general attention. The Giorsale Ec- 
clefiaftico Univerfale publithed by Taglio- 
rettiin Milan, and La difefa del Catechif- 
azo del venerabile Cardinale Bellarmino, by 
Andreola in Florence, were their firft 
fruits after the retreat of the French.— 
With refpect to the eleétion of the Pope, 
the treatife Della Condotta della Chiefa Cat- 
tolica nella Elezione del fuo Capo vifibile, il 
fommo Pontefice Romano, is really intereft. 
ing. ‘The author of itis the Abate Fran- 
cefco Guifta of Fletence. ‘The forms, re- 
gulations and déviations in the election of 
a pope out of Rome are minutely defcribed 
in it. 
—= Se 
Zo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ESPECTING the information 
which Mr. Singleton, inthe Monthly 
Magazine forgDecember, p. 347, requefts 
relative to the phrafeology and fignifica- 
tion of two or more words coming toge- 
ther in a fentence in the Latin language, 
and importing negation, I would beg leave 
to offer for that gentleman’s confideration 
the few following remarks, and flatter my- 
felf they will not be found, upon exami- 
nation, either gratuitous, or altogether 
unfatisfaétory with regard to the queftion 
ropoled. 
The Greek Attic writers, by whom this 
elegant form of expreffion appears to have 
been invented and. firft uled, have, per- 
haps, employed greater latitude in the ufé 
ef negatives, than any fubfequent authors 
in a different language ; and they frequently 
iaccuftom themfelves to exprefs a negation, 
requiring more than an ordinary degree of 
vehemence, by two, three, or mhore nega. 
On Greek and Latin Negatives. 
tives; as may be feen by confulting tle 
pureft and mott fublime compofitions in 
that beautiful language. 
voy EXmides OTK Eve pros araldwy Cmeig 
OY KETI. 
Nunc fpes nulla amplius mihi liberorum vite 
Nulla amplius. Eurip. Med. 
Plato has very elegantly united toge- 
ther four negatives ;“O7: raAnw Tay ph dvr 
@Y'AEN'I OY AAMH OY’AAMQ= OY AEMI‘AN 
nowoviey exer. Quoniam alia cum eorum, 
quz non funt, aliquo nullibi uilo modo 
aliquod commercium habent. Pars. 
prope finem. And again, “Omvuyrs x49 coc 
MHAETIOTE’ zo Eregay 
Abyeyv MHAE'NA MHAENO'S MH'TE éaide(Zew, 
pente éfalyerev. Juro enim tibi 
nunquam me cujufquam orationem 
aut oftenfurum effe, aut renunciaturum. 
—Phaedr. 
fEfchines alfo, in the following fen- 
tence, has joined together fometimes three, 
and fometimes four negatives to exprefs a 
negation with the greateft energy ; MHAE 
aetatoaexiy MHAEM!'AN MHAE'IIOTE MH'TE 
EVIU/LOV, pAnTe Drreedgrav, KMNTE KAngwTIvy peHTE 
Hetgoroviliv, ponds xngunevodr», ponds mpec- 
Ceurdrw, pondd To meeoCedravras HEWETOy 
nde cuxodarlirre prardwbels, MHAE yuapeny 
eimar MHAE/IIOTE MH'TE ty rw Sum, pore 
ey TH Bern, pande av deworaleg wv rEyew 
"AGuvatov, Neque ullum unquam magiftra- 
tum gerito neque domi, neque foris, five 
per fortem, five per fuffragium deferri fo~ 
litum, neque caduceatorem, neque legatum 
agito, neque legatione funétos judicato, 
neque’ reum agito mercede conduétus, 
neque unquam fententiam dicito neque ad 
populum, neque in fenatu, neque fi Athe- 
nienfium eloquentiffimus fit. Jz Timarch. 
p- 1730" 
It is needlefs to multiply more quota- 
tions inconfirmation of what muft appear 
exprefs and decifive, beyond even the poffi- 
bility of a doubt, to all in any. manner ac- 
quainted with the language and the writ-. 
ings of the ancient Greeks. And by this 
time I fhould imagine your correfpondent 
will, from the extracts here made, be fully 
convinced that this manner of expreffion is 
of Grecian origin, though it can hardly, 
as will afterwards appear, be faid to have 
been peculiar to that very ingenious 
people. 
Wherever we find modes of expreffion, 
fimilar to thofe employed by the Greeks, 
made ule of in languages that have exifted 
fub{equent to the zrain which the language 
of Greece was fpoken and flourifhed ; and 







& Vide Viger: de pracipuis Grece diétionis 
idiotifmis libellum, editum Lusduni Batavorum 
a dicnrica Hoogeveen. 
Q»2 -efpecially 
TI, 
