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C. the fuggeftions of an humble enquirer, who afpires not to the rank of thofe, qui fibi docti non videntur, nifi alienos labores non judicando conentur difcutere, fed lacerando confcindere.That very profound fcholar and inftructive biographer, Profeffor Wyttenbach, ftates that his late illuftrious friend found his grow ing fufpicions about Pfeud Apfines's' fragment on the Art of Rhetorick at length confirmed by an unpublished commentator on Ariftides-Joanne Siceliota," who produces from Longinus's Art of Rhetorick a paffage forming part of the context of that fragment. Warmed with a little honeft pride RUHNKENIUS announced the fact to HEMSTERHUSIUS, who, pleased with a difcovery that deferves with characters of brafs A forted refidence, 'gainft the tooth of time and aware that few "feel themfelves capable to carry” even an mendation" fteadily," advised R. ut hujus inventionis laudem fibi vindicaret, mentione ac notitia ejus in Diario Eruditorum Gal lico prodenda. Fecit Ruhnkenius 2. It is the object of this letter to trace fhortly what is applicable to that statement. The fragment on Rhetorick is afcribed to Apfines in the differtation on Antiphon 3, in the History of the Greek orators, and in the notes on Rut. Lupus, whereas in the difcuffion concerning Longinus, with which Toup, and of courfe Harles, has very politely complimented John Peter Schardam, R. enumerates among the loft works of that critic— Τέχνη Ρητορική. de qua alias "—which feems to imply a preceding communication, made probably about the clofe of 1768, or the beginning of 1769": and in his emendations R. tacitly reftores a paffage in this "Longin. Tixm Puτopin, p. 713, 12," which the ungrateful critic of Cornwall difdains to notice. Afterwards in the NEW edition of Timæus's gloffary, R. cites from the fame fragment" Longini Art. Rhet. 714"-two, and corrects three pallages 7. Hactenus hæc.-The fequel of Profeffor W.'s narrative cannot be fo easily verified. The inedited commentary referred to is probably a non-entity: R. has frequently availed himself of Among the Rhetoricians published by Aldus, 1508, 1. PP. 682-726. 2 Vita RUHNK. pp. 127, 8. 3 Diff. crit. de Antiphonte, p. 807. ed. Reisk. = Hift. Crit. Or. Gr. PP. LXXIII, LXXXI, pp. 10. 64. s Differt. de vit. et fcript. Longini, p. 2939. 6 Vit. RUHNK. p. 169. 7 PP. 30, 258. 99, 208, 223. 17. ed. nov. in Rut. Lup. J. S.'s J. S.'s commentary upon Hermogenes, which was in the collection of C. Falconeti, at Paris. Abrefch, VALCKENER, and R. who draw copiously from the MS. Scholia on Ariftides, have not once fathered them on J. S. The Burmannian Codex used by them is in the Public Library, Leyden, and there is a transcript from it probably in this country: it knows not, however, any found or authentic teftimony on this point.-But appeal is made to the notice which R. is faid to have inferted in one of the French Journals. When he reflects on the extenfive erudition of Mr. W. -Amftelodamenfis Lycei decus,-your correfpondent is inclined to think that the proper Journal has not been infpected; when he recounts thofe mifcellanies, which in juftice to W.'s fair fame, have been turned over in queft of this paper, contemplating with folicitude the fhortnefs of human life thus wantonly perplexed and frittered away by the decoying wiles of uncertain concealment,⚫ magno curarum fluctuat æftu, Atque animum nunc huc celerem, nunc dividit illuc, Why could not that very learned and communicative Profeffor have informed us in what collection it might really be found, and have given another proof of thofe generous efforts in the caufe of Greek literature which the illuftrious editor of Appian and Polybius fo defervedly extols? If the Paris edition of the Journal des Scavans fhould differ fo materially from that printed at Amfterdam, as to poffefs this jewel, or if any of your learned Corres pondents should have at hand the Review enriched with this ἀποσπασμάτιον, a reference to it would be thankfully received and publicly acknowledged. Granting, however, for the prefent, W.'s reprefentations to be correct, and the furmifes of your Correfpondent wholly unfounded, an opening fhall be left for the in sertion of this schedule, the want of which has been fo long felt and deplored. In the mean time your Correfpondent begs leave to add that these fertile fources of error, abbreviation and fimilarity of characters eafily account for the substitution of ANOY for ANOY, which first gave fanction and currency to this mifnomer, and which internal proofs abundantly confpire to correct; while the following additional evidence from the printed scholia on Hermogenes compared with an extract from the faid fragment will operate powerfully in fupport of R.'s discovery. Differt. de Antiphonte, pp. 804, 513, 4 ed. nov. Hift. Crit. Or. Gr. PP. LXX, VII. In Xenoph. Memorab. p. 227. De Longino, pp. 15, 9, 25, 6 (cf. in Longin. p. 243.), 7. Ad Timaei Lex. p. 102. ed. nov. 9 Cujus Scholiaftae Codex, olim Drackenborchianus, mox Burmannianus, jam eft in Bibliotheca Leidenfi, cujufque, intra decem dierum fpatium fcripta a magno VALCKFNAERIO, utilif fima excerpta partem fupellectilis meae faciunt. Luzacius de Epif tatis ac Prõedris Athen. p. 105. Apfines Longinus fecundum Anonym, ad Her mogenem in Rhet. Gr. Aid. II. 380 131. ed. Τoup. καὶ δὴ λογγῖνος ὁ φιλολόγος ἐν τῇ προδιόρθωσις, ἐπιδιόρθωσις" (40) αποσιών εἰρωνεία. εἰθοποιία. ἅπαντα ταῦτα ἀλλ ̓ ἔννοιαι καὶ ἐνθυμήματα καὶ λογισμοὶ τοῦ πιθανοῦ χωρίου. Λέξει τὰ σχήματα αὐταῖς λέξεσι φάσκων οὗτος, ὅσα σχήματα-accord ing to the edition; the intervening words, being manifeftly the marginal glofs of μ. τ. λ. εἴ. λ., have been omitted. I am, with great refpect, Gentlemen, Your very obliged Servant, PHILARCHAEUS, LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Cumberland is printing a fupplemental addition to his Life, which is now paffing through a fecond edition. Mr. Carr, whofe lively Tours have often and much amufed us, is about to publish an Account of an Excurfion in Ireland. Mr. Parke's new edition of Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, in five volumes octavo, will foon appear. A publication on fubjects of etymology, called, "The Evenings of Southill,” by Mr. Salmon, will appear next month. Mr. Parkinson's fecond volume on the Organic Remains of a former World, is in confiderable forwardness. Mr. Plumptre is printing a Collection of Songs without the Mufic, which will be comprifed in two large volumes duodecimo. A new edition of Dr. Vincent's Nearchus is at the prefs. The Endeavour Society are about to publifh a manual of orthodox divinity, or religious principles, in plain and eafy language, in fupport of the tenets of the eftablished church of England. |