Among his works the more important are:--I. In classical literature: _Initia doctrinae Solidioris_ (1736), many subsequent editions; _Initia rhetorica_ (1730); editions, mostly annotated, of Xenophon's _Memorabilia_ (1737), Cicero (1737-1739), Suetonius (1748), Tacitus (1752), the _Clouds_ of Aristophanes (1754), Homer (1759-1764), Callimachus (1761), Polybius (1764), as well as of the _Quaestura_ of Corradus, the Greek lexicon of Hedericus, and the _Bibliotheca Latina_ of Fabricius (unfinished); _Archaeologia litteraria_ (1768), new and improved edition by Martini (1790); Horatius Tursellinus _De particulis_ (1769). II. In sacred literature: _Antimuratorius sive confutatio disputationis Muratorianae de rebus liturgicis_ (1755-1758); _Neue theologische Bibliothek_, vols. i. to x. (1760-1769); _Institutio interpretis Nov. Test._ (3rd ed., 1775); _Neueste theologische Bibliothek_, vols. i. to x. (1771-1775). Besides these, he published more than a hundred smaller works, many of which have been collected in the three following publications:--_Opuscula oratoria_ (1762, 2nd ed., 1767); _Opuscula philologica et critica_ (1764, 2nd ed., 1776); _Opuscula theologica_ (1773). See Herzog-Hauck, _Realencyklopadie_; J.E. Sandys, _Hist. of Class. Schol._ iii. (1908). ERNESTI, JOHANN CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB (1756-1802), German classical scholar, was born at Arnstadt, Thuringia, and studied under his uncle, J.A. Ernesti, at the university of Leipzig. On the 5th of June, 1782, he was made supplementary professor of philosophy at his own university; and on the death of his cousin August Wilhelm in 1801 he was for five months professor of rhetoric. He died on the 5th of June of the following year. His principal works are:--Editions of Aesop's _Fabulae_ (1781); of the _Glossae sacrae of Hesychius_ (1785) and _Suidas and Phavorinus_ (1786); and of _Silius Italicus Punica_ (1791-1792); _Lexicon Technologiae Graecorum rhetoricae_ (1795); _Lexicon technologiae Latinorum rhetoricae_ (1797), and Cicero's _Geist und Kunst_ (1799-1802).