PARADOXA.

The Paradox of M. T. Cicero, lately translated out of the Latin Tongue into English, by Rob. Whittington, Poet Laureat, 16mo. Southwark, (about 1540.)

by T. Newton, 1577. And by Guthrie, and others, see under DE OFFICIIS, CATO MAJOR, LÆLIUS, &c.

SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS.

Scipio's Dream, by Guthrie, 8vo. Lond. 1755. See DE OFFICIIS.

The Theology and Philosophy in Cicero's Somnium Scipionis explained; or a brief Attempt to demonstrate that the Newtonian System is perfectly agreeable to the Notions of the wisest Ancients, &c. 8vo. Lond. 1751.

CONSOLATIO.

Paraclesis: or Consolations deduced from natural and revealed Religion: the first supposed to have been composed by Cicero, the last originally written by Thos. Blacklock, D. D. 8vo. Edinb. and Lond. 1767. The translation by Dr. Blacklock, is an excellent one: but the Consolatio is generally allowed not to be a genuine work of Cicero.

LIFE OF CICERO.

History of the Life of M. T. Cicero, by Con

yers Middleton, D. D. 4to. Lond. 1741. Frequently reprinted in two and three vols. 8vo.

CLAUDIAN, A. C. 390.

The Rape of Proserpine, in three Books, written by Claudian, translated into English Verse by Leonard Digges, 4to. Lond. 1617-28. Claudian's Epigram of the Old Man of Verona, translated into English, by Sir J. Beaumont, in his Poems, 8vo. Lond. 1629.

The same, by Ab. Cowley, in his works, often printed.

An Essay on the Third Punic War. With the Phœnix out of Claudian, 8vo. Lond. 1671.

Rufinus, or a historical Essay on the favourite Ministry under Theodosius. - With a Version of Part of Claudian's Rufinus, 8vo. Lond. 1712.

The Rape of Proserpine, made English, by Jabez Hughes, 8vo. Lond. 1714. Reprinted with notes, 12mo. Lond. 1723.

A Description of the Phoenix, from Claudian, by T. Tickell, Esq. in his works: and in Dr. Anderson's edition of the British Poets, 8vo. Lond. 1795. Vol. viii. p. 422.

Translations from Claudian, by Wm. Warburton, in his Miscellaneous Translations, 12mo. Lond. 1724.

The Court of Venus, from Claudian, by the Rev. Lawrence Eusden.

The same, translated into English Verse, by Wm. Pattison, 8vo. Lond. 1728.

The History of Rufinus and Eutropius, translated into English from Claudian, by Wm. King, 8vo. Lond. 1730.

Critick upon a favourite Ministry, particularly that of Rufinus, &c. by Wm. King, in his Remains, 8vo. Lond. 1732.

Claudian's two Books against Rufinus, translated by Mr. Jabez Hughes, in his Miscellanies, 8vo. Lond. 1737.

Claudianus in Epithalamio Honorii et Mariæ, translated by John Hughes, Esq. in Dr. Anderson's edition of the British Poets, 8vo. Lond. 1795. Vol. vii. p. 302.

Two Books of the Rape of Proserpine, trans lated into English Verse, by the Rev. Richard Polwhele, 8vo. Lond. 1792.

CLEANTHES, flourished A. C. 240.

The Hymn of Cleanthes, translated into English Verse, by Gilbert West, Esq. LL. D. in his Odes of Pindar, &c. 8vo. Lond. 1753.

in. the Monthly Review for June, 1749. Of this hymn it has been truly said that the intelligent reader may be surprised to find "such just sentiments of duty in a heathen, and so much poetry in a philosopher."

T. Flavius CLEMENS Alexandrinus, died A.C.

220.

Nothing that I have met with of this eminent Greek father's writing has been as yet published in English, except some very scanty extracts. His Stromata is a valuable performance, and richly deserves a translation into English.

CLEMENS Romanus, A. С. 91.

Clement, the blessed Paul's fellow labourer in the gospel, his First Epistle to the Corinthians, (by Wm. Burton) 4to. Lond. 1647, and 4to. ibid. 1652.

The Epistles of Clement, translated and published with a preliminary Discourse, by Apb. Wake, in his Epistles of the Primitive Fathers, 8vo. Lond. 1693. Second and much amended edition, 8vo. Lond. 1710, often reprinted.

The First Epistle of Clemens Romanus to the Church of Corinth. 8vo. Aberdeen, 1768, tolerably correct.

The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, by Clement; in Greek and English, by Mr. Whiston, in the second volume of his Primitive Christianity Revived, 8vo. Lond. 1711. In the third volume of this work Mr. W. endeavours to prove that these Constitutions are the most sacred of the canonical books of the New Testament. This should be attempted only when the Constitutions are proved to be genuine: and could even this be done, it could never be proved that they form any part of the New Testament, much less the most sacred part.

The Recognitions of Clement: or the Travels of Peter, in ten Books, done into English by Mr. Whiston, in the vth vol. of his Primitive Christianity Revived, 8vo. Lond. 1712.

Bishop Smalbroke has published a piece entitled, The pretended Authority of the Clementine Constitutions confuted, 8vo. Lond. 1714, which the reader of the Primitive Christianity Revived, would do well to consult.

COELIUS Apicius, flourished in the reign of

Tiberius.

The Art of Cookery-with some Letters to Dr. Lister and others, with an Extract of the greatest Curiosities contained in his Edition of Cœlius Apicius, by Dr. Wm. King, 8vo. 1709.

L. Junius Moderatus COLUMELLA, A. С.

42.

L. Junius Moderatus Columella, of Husbandry, in twelve Books, and his Book concerning Trees, translated into English; with several IIlustrations from Pliny, Cato, Varro, Palladius, and other ancient and modern Authors, 4to. Lond. 1745. See VARRO.