HELMST. 8vo. 1811. Wideburgii.

This edition is also founded on that of Ernesti, and is admirably calculated for the use of more advanced students; for whom it was originally intended. It exhibits the Variations of Davies's edition, and contains a short excursus, in which the more obscure passages are fully, and often happily, illustrated. See Klüglingii, Suppl. p. 108.

BONON. 8vo. 1811. Seraphini.

In this edition the editor boasts of having discovered an ancient MS. and now for the first time supplied the deficiency of the fourth book. But by the great inferiority of this book, and the total absence of that purity and elegance of diction, which have ever been the characteristics of the productions of this celebrated orator, the cheat was soon discovered. Klüglingius justly and severely censures the conduct of this worthy personage in the following review: "In hoc libello, qui Berolini "fertur in lucem emissus, filum disputationis in libro Ciceronis "tertio de natura Deorum abruptum denuo reprehensum ulteriusque deductum est. Vix credibile est, auctorem hujus opusculi in animo habuisse, tituli vaniloquentia viris eruditis "verba dare; videtur potius sive jocandi sive ostentandi adeo ingenii causa fictus esse libellus; posterius tamen consilium "vix juvabit orationis ratio, quippe cui immixta nonnunquam "sint vocabula loquendique formulae, a quibus abhorret Cice"ronianae orationis puritas et elegantia." Suppl. p. 109.

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LIPS. 8vo. 1815. Heindorfii.

A very respectable edition. See Klüglingii, Suppl. p. 108-9. 8s. 6d.

LIPS. 8vo. 1818. Moseri.

This edition is founded on that of Ernesti; it contains the notes of various editors, an apparatus criticus, and the Animadversions of Wyttenbach and Creuzer. This editor consulted no less than twenty MSS. 17s. 6d.

EDITIO PRINCEPS. This edition is excessively rare, and is supposed to have been executed as early as 1467. It is in a Gothic character, with numerous contractions. It was supposed by Ernesti and De Bure to have been executed by Fust, at Mentz; but Panzer says: "At typi, quibus expressa est illa, "iidem plane sunt, quibus Olricus Zell Coloniensis imprimere "solebat. Jure meritoque ergo officinæ hujus artificis vindi

"catur, quod factum est in Catal. Bibl. de la Vallière,* t. ii. p. “33.” Annal. Typ. v. i. p. 328. The text commences on the recto of fol. 1. thus:

M. T. Cyceronis de
& Maloru. L. prim9

(N)

finibus Bonoru

Incipit feliciter.

On eram nescius Brute cumque sum
mis ingeniis exqsitaq3 doctrina phi
losophi greco sermone tractauissent:
&c. &c. &c.

A full page contains 27 lines, but this has only 26. The volume ends on the recto of the 119th leaf, thus :

M. Tulii Ciceronis de finibus bonorū &
malorum liber quintus desinit.

Laire's copy is described in the Index (v. i. p. 37.) as: "Exemplar elegans editionis primæ hujus operis:" in a MS. note of my copy of which, it is said to be damaged; it sold for £3. 6s. 8d. There is a copy of this edition in the Bodleian library. The Duke de la Vallière's copy was purchased for £25. Os. 2d. by the late Count Revickzky, and is now in Lord Spencer's collection. See Panzer, v. i. p. 328; Denis, Suppl. p. 540-1; Quirini, p. 24; De Bure, No. 2438; Ernesti, Fabr. B. Lat. v. i. p. 181; Harles, Brevior. Not. Lit. Rom. p. 151, and Suppl. v. i. p. 219; Laire's Index, v. i. p. 37; Beloe's Anecdotes, v. iv. p. 225; Dibdin's Bibl. Spencer. v. i. p. 371-2, and--Introd. v. i. p. 286-7; Bibl. Dict. v. ii. p. 228; and Brunet, t. i. p. 319. VENET. 4to. 1471. Jo. de Colonia.

This edition is rare and valuable; it was edited by Georgius Merula, by whom it was dedicated to Ludovicus Fuscarenus. This volume is executed in the Roman characters of Vindelin of Spires, as Panzer informs us: it has neither paging-figures,

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"Première et rare édition, exécutée à longues lignes, au nombre de "27 sur les pages qui sont entières, sans date, indication de ville ni d'im"primeur, chiffres, réclames ni signatures. Elle a été annoncée jusqu'a ce jour comme sortie des presses de Mayence parce qu'on a cru y voir "une grande conformité de ces caractères avec eux des Offices de Ci"céron, imprimés en cette ville en 1465. Après avoir comparé très-atten❝tivement l'une et l'autre édition, nous pouvons assurer que les deux "caractères ont très peu de rapport entr'eux, et que ceux des Offices de "Cicéron sont beaucoup plus petits; mais ils ressemblent parfaitement à ceux avec lesquels Zel de Hanau, imprimeur de Cologne, a exécuté " en 1467, les traités de St. Augustin, intitulés: De Vitâ Christianâ et de "Singularitate Clericorum, annoncés ci-devant, No. 475. D'ailleurs, l'une "et l'autre édition sont de même format, et ont une même justification de 46 pages." Cat de la Vallière, No. 2258. This edition is then more parti. eularly described.

catch-words, nor signatures. On the recto of the 89th leaf the volume concludes thus:

τελος

M. Tulii Ciceronis De finibus bonorum & maloru
liber quintus desinit.

Venetiis. M.CCCC.LXXI. Christophoro Mauro
Duce. Joanne ex Colonia Agrippinensi sumptu mini
strante Impressum.

Clement gives us a very animated description of his friend's (Mr. Duve) copy of this edition: "M. Duve posséde un magnifique Exemplaire de cette belle édition.--Les lettres capitales dorées, les caractères Romains sur du très-beau papier, avec de grandes marges, forment ici un coup d'œil très"agréable." Bibl. Curieuse, t. vii. p. 131, note 76: which see. There is a copy in the Bodleian.. Consult Maittaire, v. i. p. 302 and 307; Panzer, v. iii. p. 80-1; Laire, Ind. v. i. p. 331, (231); Cat. de la Vallière, t. ii. p. 34; Crevenna, t. iii. p. 84; Bibl. Revickzk, p. 23; Bibl. Dict. v. ii. p. 228; Beloe's Anecdotes, v. iv. p. 225-6; Dibdin's Bibl. Spencer. v. i. p. 373, and- -Introd. v. i. p. 287-8; and Brunet, t. i. p. 319. A copy at Dr. Askew's, Brienne-Laire's, and the Duke de la Vallière's sales, brought £10. 8s. 6d.

CANT. 8vo. 1718. Bentleii.

This edition contains the Paradoxa, and is favourably spoken of by Ernesti; "Luculenter, ac nitide excusos et diligenter castigatos hosce libros-ex Anglia accepimus." He assigns the date of 1715 to it. Fabr. B. Lat. v. i. p. 181. 3s.

CANT. 8vo. 1728 et 1741. Davisii.

"The last of these editions is the best printed, and is very "correct. Dr. Davies was a very learned and judicious editor, " and did not deserve to be contemptuously called Juvenis, as "Dr. Bentley affects to style him, in his Emendationes ad "Ciceronis Tusc. Quæst." Harwood. Harles observes of the latter edition: "elegans et correcta habetur editio." Suppl. ad Brev. Not. Lit. Rom. v. i. P. 220. 10s.

TURICI. 8vo. 1798. Bremii.

This edition is held in considerable estimation; it is illustrated with some learned and critical observations. See Kilon bibl. Univers. German. vol. 47. Pt. 1. fasc. 3. a 1799. pag. 176 sqq; et Mülleri Censura in Erfurt. Ephemer. litterar. a. 1799. nr. 71; as referred to by Harles, Suppl. ad Brevior. Not. Lit. Rom. v. ii. p. 494.

HALE. 8vo. 1804. Rathii.

This is a very good edition, which may safely be recom

mended for the use of students. It contains the Animadversions of Davies, from whose edition the text of this is chiefly taken, the entire notes of Victorius, Manutius, Camerarius, Lambinus, and Ursinus; and those of Gruter, from six MSS. in the Bibl. Palat. Of this edition Klüglingius observes: “ Propter gra"tam utilemque notarum veterum criticorum, quas plenas ac"curateque descriptas exhibet, complexionem hæc editio in"primis commendanda est. Editoris vero emendationibus num ubivis possit assentiri, sane est dubitandum." Suppl. p. 104-5. 9s.

OXON. 8vo. 1809. Ex recens. Davisii. 8s.

LIPS. 8vo. 1813. Goerenzii.

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This is greatly superior to every preceding edition in point of accuracy and value, and is undoubtedly a very learned and critical performance. It forms the third volume of the Opera Philosophica. "In introductione docte curatissimeque disse"ruit cl. editor de tempore, quo hi libri scripti editique sint et sermones eorum habiti fingantur; quae sit universi operis "delineatio; quos denique rerum tractatarum auctores Cicero "sit in ipsis singulis libris secutus. Textum ope sex codd. "MSS. quorum quatuor potioribus erant annumerandi, omniumque fere editionum, tam veterum quam recentiorum, innu"meris locis tam feliciter correxit, ut nunc multo quam antea "emendatior appareat. Praeterea haud parum bonae frugis "in hanc editionem ex eo redundavit, quod cl. Bremi, deposito "editionis suae absolvendae consilio, annotationes suas ad "duos posteriores libros cum editore ultro communicavit, quas "religiose adhibuisse, ipse profitetur. Reizianis quoque ad "hos libros annotationibus, Ernestianae editionis exemplari adscriptis et a cl. Hermanno editori communicatis, uti ipsi li"cuit. Quod ad interpretationem attinet, iisdem omnibus virtutibus, quas in praecedentibus Academicorum libris lau"davimus, haec ipsa non minus excellit de finibus bonorum et "malorum editio." Klüglingii, Suppl. p. 105-6.

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CANT. 8vo. 1721, 1730 et 1741. Davisii.

"Lectiones VI Codicum et edit. Veneta, 1471, multum contulerunt ad textus integritatem." Acta Eruditor. The last is the most copious and preferable edition. The EDITIO PRINCEPS of this work is contained in the Opera Philosophica. LIPS. 8vo. 1793. Hottingeri.

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a very good one, and contains some very valuable illustrations of the doctrines of Aristotle.

HALE. 8vo. 1807. Goerenzii.

In this edition, which forms the fourth volume of the Opera Philosophica, we find a very critical preface, in which, not only the readings of the more ancient editions are set forth, but also the emendations of modern critics; and various corrections are proposed by the editor. Klüglingii, Suppl. p. 110.

DE LEGIBUS.

CANT. 8vo. 1727 et 1745. Davisii.

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"This new performance of Dr. Davies is a new proof of his learning and modesty. He has mended the text with the help of some manuscripts, which have been communicated "to him by the Earl of Oxford in a very obliging manner. "It is an useful thing to make good emendations upon the "text of an ancient author; Dr. Davies has gone farther. He "clears the difficult passages with learned and judicious ob"servations." New Memoirs of Literature, as quoted by Brüggemann. The EDITIO PRINCEPS of this work is supposed to be a folio, executed in Roman characters, " Absque Ulla Nota:" it has neither paging-figures, catch-words, nor signatures. Panzer (v. iv. p. 113.) refers to Maittaire, v. i. p. 763, who gives the title of it; Dr. Askew's Catalogue, p. 50; which copy was purchased for his late Majesty, for £12. 12s.; and M. Gaignat's Catalogue, t. i. p. 389, where it is annexed to the work de Fato,' and styled: "Editio vetus, litt. quadrat. excusa, circ. 1475."

HANOV. 8vo. 1795. Wagneri.

A very good and valuable edition, of which bibliographers speak very favourably. See Harles, Suppl. ad Brev. Not. Lit. Rom. v. i. p. 229.

This edition contains the text only, which is taken from that of Davies; it has the arguments and an index. The Commentary was published in a separate volume, same date and place, which ought to accompany the preceding. The chief object of this editor has been to illustrate the sentiments of his author. The Commentary is highly esteemed.

LIPS. 8vo. 1809. Goerenzii.

This edition forms the first volume of the Philosophical works in the introduction the editor has copiously treated of the real origin of these books, the time when they were written, their number, and of those ancient writers whom he had chiefly