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Some Extracts from the Remains of Menander, in Greek, with an English Translation, by Geo. Colman, in his Translation of the Coinedies of Terence, 8vo. Lond. 1768, second edition.

METHODIUS, A. C. 311.

A Fragment attributed to Methodius, concerning the State of the Dead, from MSS. of the Rev. Dr. Grabe, with the original Greek, done into English, with Notes, by David Humphreys, B. A. in his Translation of the Apologetics of Athenagoras, 8vo. Lond. 1714.

MARCUS MINUTIUS Felix, A. C. 210.

M. Minutius Felix, his Dialogue called Octavius, translated into English, by Rich. James, of C. C. C. Oxford, 8vo. Oxford, 1636. Very flat and dull.

Octavius, a Dialogue-translated into English, 8vo. Lond. 1682.

ditto, by W. Combe, 8vo. 1703. ditto, with Tertullian's Apology, 8vo.

Lond. 1708.

ditto, with Notes, and a preliminary Discourse upon this Author. With the Apologies of the Primitive Fathers, by Wm. Reeves, M. A. 8vo. Lond. 1709; and again, 1716, 2 vols. By no means a faithful version.

ditto, (by Sir David Dalrymple) 8vo. Edinb. and Loud. 1781. Faithfully and elegantly executed.

An Extract in English, of Minutius Felix, shewing how Cæcilius, a noble Roman, was converted from his Paganism to the Christian Religion. In the Town and Country Magazine, vol. xxi. p. 472, 495, 588, and vol. xxii. p. 1214, 75-77.

MOSCHUS, B. C. 288.

Cupid turned Ploughman, from the Greek of Moschus, by Math. Prior, Esq. in his Miscellanies, 8vo. Lond. 1740, and in Anderson's Collection of the British Poets, vol. vii. p. 509.

Fourth Idyllium of Moschus, in the Town and Country Magazine for Oct. 1786.

The Epitaph of Bion from Moschus, translated into English, by the Rev. Jos. Stirling, in his Poems, 12mo. 1789. See ANACREON and BION.

MUSÆUS, B. C. 1180. (some say 1426.)

Hero and Leander, by Christ. Marloe, 4to. Lond. 1598-with the first Book of Lucan, 4to. Lond. 1600.

The divine Poem of Musæus, first of all Books-imitated by Christ. Marlowe, and finished (by Geo. Chapman), 4to. Lond. 1606. ditto, Lond. 1616. The most diminutive product of English typography not two inches long, and scarcely one broad! Ditto, ibid. 4to. 1629.

The Loves of Hero and Leander, a Greek Poem, written originally by Musaus, translated into English Verse, with Annotations upon the Original, by Sir Rob. Stapylton, knight, 4to. Oxford, 1645, and 8vo. Lond. 1647.

by Thos. Hoy, with Ovid de Arte

Amandi, 4to. Lond. 1682.

by the Rev. Lawrence Eusden, in Dryden's Miscellany Poems, 8vo. Lond. 1716, vol. vi. p. 266. Reprinted 8vo. Glasgow, 1750.

by R. Luck, A. M. in a Miscellany of

new Poems 8vo. Lond. 1736.

by G. Bally, 8vo. Lond. 1747.

by J. Slade, 4to. Lond. 1753. A poor

performance.

by Francis Fawkes, M. A. in his Tran

slation of the Works of Anacreon, Bion, &c.

An excellent translation.

in blank Verse, author's name not

mentioned, 4to. Lond. 1774.

See ANACREON, BION, MOSCHUS, &c.

N.

NEMESIUS, A. C. 370.

The Nature of Man, by Nemesius, translated by Geo. Wither, 12mo. Lond. 1636.

NILUS, about the Ninth Cent.

A Treatise, containing A Declaration of the Pope's usurped Primacie: written in Greek about 700 Years since, by Nilus, Abp. of Thessalonica. Translated by Thomas Gressop, Student in Oxford, 8vo. Lond, 1560.

OCELLUS Lucanus, B. C. 500.

On the Nature of the Universe, from Ocellus Lucanus. See the European Magazine for the year 1782, September, October, November, and December.

ONOSANDER, A. C. 50.

Onosandro Platonico, of the Generall Captaine and of his Office: translated out of Greke into Italian, by Fabio Cotta, a Romayne, and out of Italian into English, by Peter Whytehorne, 8vo. Lond. 1563.

OPPIAN, A. C. 200.

Oppian's Halieutics, of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients, in five Books, Translated from the Greek (into English Verse), with an Account of Oppian's Life and Writings, and a Catalogue of his Fishes, 8vo. Oxford,

1722.

The translators of this work were Mr. Diaper, and Mr. Jones, both of Baliol College, and they gained themselves considerable credit by their performance.

The first Book of Oppian's Cynogetics; or a Poem of Hunting; translated into English Verse, with a Dissertation, and Oppian's Life prefixed. Dedicated to Sir Rob. Walpole, by John Mawer, A. M. 8vo. Lond. 1736.

ORIGEN, born A. C. 185.

A Homilie of Mary Magdalene, declaring her fervent love and zele towards Christ; written by that famous Clerke Origene. A Homilie of Abraham, how he offered up his Sonne Isaac ; written by Origene, newly translated, 16mo. Lond. Printed by Reynold Wolfe, 1565.

Origen against Celsus, translated from the Original into English, by James Bellamy, Gent. 8vo. Lond. B. Mills.

Paulus OROSIUS, flourished 400.

The Anglo-Saxon Version, from the Historian Orosius, by Alfred the Great. Together with an English Translation from the Anglo-Saxon (by the Hon. Daines Barrington, with Remarks, by Mr. John Reinhold Forster), 8vo. Lond. 1773.

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