A Minute Examination of Horace's Journey to Brundusium and of Cicero's Journey into Cilicia. 25th Dec. 1763 On the Fasti of Ovid. Written 1764 On the Triumphs of the Romans. Nov. 1764 Remarques Critiques sur un Passage de Plaute. 4th May, 435 Remarques sur quelques Endroits de Virgile. April, 1757. 441 Critical Observations on the Design of the Sixth Book of the A Vindication of some Passages in the Fifteenth and Six- CLASSICAL ERRATA TO VOL. IV. Page 155, line 7 from top, for Cluvierus read Cluverius. line 21 from top, for plurimo read plurima. 167, line 8 from top, for unda cæpit read unde cæpit. 182, line 13 from bot. for Transierim Cyene read Transierim, Cinyra. line 22, for Tum read Tune. 186, line 11 from top, for densos rapit read rapit densos. line 6 from bottom, for quidpe read quippe. 197, line 9 from bottom, for antiquum read antiquus. 204, line 11 from top, for æternati read æternitati. 206, line 17 from top, for post hunc read per hunc. 236, last line, for VIII. 398 read VIII. 392. 238, in margin, for Sil. Italic. 528 read Sil. Italic. XII. 528. 258, line 7 from top, for agro read agello. 263, line 2 from top, for mugit read sonat. 277, line 4 from bottom, for armenta read armentum. 281, line 13 from top, for Diomeden read Diomedem. -line 25 from top, for accensâ cerauniâ read accensa ceraunia. 282 line 18 from top, for vetus ut est read vetus est ut. 283 line 17 from top, for mutuet read mutet. 292, line 15, for Acetæ read Æetæ. 302, line 13, for fons Blandusia read fons Blandusiæ. 308 line 8 from top, for patulo read patuloque. line 9, for Fulginium read Fulginia. 316 line 6 from top, for mollior aquâ read mollior agnâ. 317 line 2 from bottom, for solveret cui justa exacto read solverct exacto cui sera. 518 lined from top, for litoris read æquoris. Classical and Critical. ESSAI SUR L'ÉTUDE DE LA The following is in MR. GIBBON's hand-writing, on the back of the title-page of an interleaved copy of this Essay. MEs amis me firent publier cet ouvrage, pour ainsi dire, malgré moi. Cette excuse banale des auteurs ne l'est point cependant pour moi. Mon père voulut me le faire publier l'hiver passé. Ma jeunesse, et un fonds d'orgueil qui me rend beaucoup plus sensible aux critiques qu'aux éloges, m'empêchèrent de goûter son projet. Mais me trouvant à la campagne avec lui au mois de Mars, il renouvella ses instances d'une manière si vive que je ne pus m'en défendre. M. Mallet me fit connoître un libraire nommé Becket, à qui je cédai mon manuscrit, moyennant quarante exemplaires pour moi. M. Maty corrigea les feuilles. L'impression de l'ouvrage, entreprise au commencement de Mai, ne fût achevée qu'à la fin de Juin, et mon livre ne se débitoit que vers le milieu du mois suivant. M. Mallet se chargea de la distribution d'une bonne VOL. IV. B partie partie des présens que j'avois envie d'en faire. Voici l'extrait d'une lettre qu'il m'écrivit le 9 Juillet 1761. "DEAR SIR, "I HAVE executed the orders you gave me, and all the books have been delivered some days. Lord Chesterfield returns you his thanks, I expect in writing, and have had Lady Hervey's in that manner. Lord Hardwicke, with his compliments for the book to himself, assured me he would send the other to his son, and recommend you to his acquaintance. Lord Egremont will be glad to know you, if ever you should think of a journey to Augsbourg. I found Lord Granville reading you, after ten at night; his single approbation, which he assures you of, will go for more than that of a hundred other readers. I have gone further, in sending one copy to the Count de Caylus, another to the Duchess d'Aiguillon, and in giving a third to M. de Bussy." To |