The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 11, October, 1836Various
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The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 11, October, 1836
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Le Clerc's. Paris, 1827, 35 vols. large 12mo. with French translation
_en regard_, is the only edition that is by any means complete. It
contains a preliminary discourse; Plutarch's life, translated; a
supplement from Middleton's; a copious bibliography of editions. In
the 34th and 35th volumes, it has the Apochrypha and Fragments—the
Invective against Sallust, and Reply; Discourse to the people, before
going into exile; Letter to Octavius; Treatises on the supposititious
works. In the 35th volume are Fragments, with an account of the
discoveries made among the Palimpsestes, since 1814, with conjectures
towards the yet undiscovered works; Fragments of Speeches, Letters,
Philosophical works, Poems, and the apochryphal de Consolatione, with
an Introduction. It seems to me a very agreeable literary edition. How
far it is a critical one, I have never seen any authoritative
decision. Though much ampler than any other, it has not, of course,
the parts of orations published about 1830, by Maius, in his
Scriptores Classici e Codicibus Vaticanis.
To complete Ernesti's or Schùtz's, the Respublica and these fragments
are, of course, necessary.
Claudian, à Gesner. Lipsiæ, 1759, 2 vols. 8vo. 15 to 18 frs. best
paper. There is also an esteemed edition by Barthius, first published,
with much applause, when he was less than 20 years old. Hannover,
1612, 8vo. This, however, was one of his riper works: for he published
the Psalms translated into Latin verse, at 12; and at 16, a work on
the method of reading the Latin authors, from Ennius downwards.
Cœlius Apicius, _De opsoniis et condimentis_, by Dr. Martin Lister.
Amsterdam, 1709, 8vo. 8 a 12 frs.
Coluthus, _Raptus Helenae_. Not worth having; but if taken, the
edition of Bekker. Berlin, 1816, 8vo. It is the best text, and has
seven additional verses—which are not unimportant, in a poem of
380—unless the whole should chance to be of no merit, as in this case.
{679} Conon is of little importance, even as to mythology. He may be
taken in Gale's collection—Scriptores antiqui Historiæ poeticæ.
Cornelius Nepos, à Fischero. Lipsiæ, 1806, 8vo. It is edited by
Harles, and regarded as an excellent performance. In fine paper, 15
frs.
Corripus, I would omit—as also Demetrius Cydnus, and Demetrius
Phalereus.
Curtius (Quintus), à Pitisco. Hague, 1708, 8vo. 15 a 20 frs.
Dares Phrygius. See Dictys Cretensis.
Demosthenes, may be taken in the collection of Greek Orators, by
Reiske. Lipsiæ, 1770-5, 12 vols. 8vo. Isocrates alone is wanting, in
this collection.
Dictys Cretensis is a forgery not worth having, except in mere
illustration of the Chivalric Romances; of which it is largely the
source. Take the edition à Perizonio, Amsterdam, 1702, 8vo. 15 to 18
frs. It includes Dares Phrygius.
Diodorus Siculus, à Wesselingio. Bipont, 1790-1806, 11 vols. 8vo. 108
frs. The 11th contains indexes. It has a good notitia literaria, Essay
on the Sources, &c.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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