not well informed about the author; and we further imagine, that he might ascribe the Explicationes veterum aliquot Auctorum to Mr. Bowyer because he found the names of Mr. Bowyer at the bottom of the title-page to Markland's work. We certainly wish the mistake about the name had not been committed at all; and if committed earlier, it might have deprived Markland of all praise; though, by the insertion of the matter, the instruction of readers is provided for. It is scarcely necessary for us to state that Mr. Markland's conjectures, &c. are contained in a work subjoined to his edition of the Supplices, and dedicated to his friend William Hall. Of the grammatical treatises de imparisyllab. declin. Gr. et Lat. forty copies were printed in 1761, and in 1763 the whole was reprinted and annexed to the Supplices Mulieres. As we have never seen the first book of 1761, we are left to infer, from a passage at the beginning of the Explicationes, that they were not originally published with the abovementioned treatises, "ut argumentum præcedens, inamonum per se, lætiore aliquâ materiâ distinguatur, admittente simul vel poscente talem additionem libelli mole, visum est explicanda sumere et adjicere pauca veterum auctorum loca."-Markland, p. 244. We shall now see how far the Var. Editor has availed himself of Markland's Epistola Critica, which he mentions in the catalogue, and which we suppose him to have seen, because he is correct in saying that it was printed in 1763. We shall follow the order in which Mr. Markland has written his emendations on Horace. We shall produce all of them for the purpose of proving that the editor has produced none; and, as the Letter to Bishop Hare is referred to in the catalogue, we, in quoting from it, shall consider ourselves as furnishing supplemental matter to the Variorum edition. Sat. i. Lib. i. v. 29. Perfidus hic caupo. For which Markland, p. 7, reads, Causidicus vafer hic. Sat. i. Lib. ii. v. 63. Primus in hunc operis componere carmina morem. M. p. 11, reads hanc formam for hunc morem. Sat. iii. L. xi. v. 154. Ingens accedit stomacho fultura ruenti. M. reads in p. 69. Ingesta for ingens. Ibid. v. 182. In cicere atque faba bona tu perdasque lupinis, Latus ut in circo spatiere, et aeneus ut stes. (We follow Bentley's reading et aeneus for aut æneus.) M. p. 81, reads largus for latus. Ep. i. 1. 2. 207. Lana Tarentino violas imitata veneno. In p. 91, M. resumes the passage in which he had before proposed largus for latus. V. 184. Sat. iii. Lib. ii. Nudus agris, nudus nummis, insane, paternis? Scilicet ut plausus, quos fert Agrippa, feras tu. Mutatione distinctionis, says M. in p. 92, et additione literæ unius, et sensum Horatio, et partem suam Tiberio restituisse me confido: In cicere atque faba bona tu (Aule) perdasque lupinis, Scilicet? aut plausus quos fert Agrippa, feras tu, (i. e. Tiberii) Whatever may be the merit of Mr. Markland's conjectures on the foregoing passage, the Var. edit. silet. Sat. vi. B. ii. v. 30. tu pulses omne quod obstat, Ad Mæcenatem memori si mente recurras. Markland, in p. 93, would take away the comma at obstat, and place a mark of interrogation at re curras. Epist. ii. Lib. i. v. 25. Sub domina meretrice fuisset turpis et excors. M. p. 100, proposes for excors, exsors. Od. vi. Lib. i. Scriberis Vario fortis, et hostium M. p. 107, proposes alteri for aliti. Sat. 10. Lib. i. v. 63. --librisque Ambustum propriis. M. p. 111, reads combustum. Epist. vi. Lib. i. v. Improvisa simul species exterret utrumque. M. p. 115, for exterret reads exercet. Epist. vii. Lib. i. v. 40. M. proles patientis Ulyssei. p. 134, reads sapientis for patientis. Epist. xvii. Lib. i. v. 62. Quære peregrinum, vicinia rauca reclamat. M. p. 138, reads cauta. Epist. ii. Lib. ii. v. 28. post hoc vehemens lupus, et sibi et hosti Iratus pariter. M. p. 166, reads, Iratus. post hoc (vehemens lupus ut) sibi et hosti Epist. i. Lib. i. v. 85. Cui si vitiosa libido Fecerit auspicium. M. p. 169, would substitute ventosa for vitiosa. We will now balance accounts between the Epistola Critica and the Variorum catalogue. Markland's Epistola Critica contains fifteen conjectural emendations. The catalogue of the Variorum refers to the Epistola Critica, and in the notes of the Variorum, we find of these fifteen emendations-not one. Though Dr. C. may have seen the Critica Epistola, he does not appear to have used it, and therefore we may be forgiven for expressing our wish that he had not mentioned it in the catalogue of books from which the notes of the Variorum are taken. We imagine that in the course of the work Mr. H. intended, or was advised, to consult the Epistola Critica, that it was procured by him or for him, and perhaps put down in some list, and that the successor, forgetting to inspect the Epistola Critica, and finding in the notes of the Variorum edition that Markland's name had been several times quoted, inferred that the passages under which his name appeared, were taken from the Epistola Critica, and we have already stated that the word observationes is not joined with the word Markland, even where they are cited in the Odes. Of Bp. Hare we find the following account in the catalogue: Hare-Jo. Hare Epistola Critica, 4to. 1726. Bp. Hare is quoted three times in the first volume of the Variorum, and in the second he is not quoted once. Od. i. Lib. i. v. 35. Quod si me Lyricis vatibus inseres. The editor's note tells us, that Hare proposed to read te for me, and very properly refers us to the 263d page of Bishop Hare's work called the "Scripture Vindicated." Ibid. v. 5. palmaque nobilis Terrarum dominos evehit ad deos. Here again the joint editor of the Odes, with becoming accuracy and perspicuity, informs his readers that Bishop Hare accedes to the opinion of those learned men who would remove the point from deos in the sixth verse to nobilis in the fifth; and for this he properly refers to the 264th page of Scripture Vindicated. Od. xxvii. Lib. iii. v. 39. An vitiis carentem Ludit imago Vana, quæ portâ fugiens eburnâ The Editor of the Odes, p. 405, quotes in Hare's words an emendation which a friend of Hare's suggested to him, and which Hare improved. The friend proposed quam for quæ, and Hare would add è before porta. Upon this occasion, the editor very justly refers to the Epistola Critica of Hare, but without mentioning the page. (It is the 423d, in the 2d vol. of Hare's works.) Let us compare the different treatment which Markland and Hare have experienced. Markland's Epistola Critica is referred to in the catalogue, but never quoted in the Variorum edition. Hare's Scripture Vindicated is twice quoted in the edition, but never mentioned in the catalogue. As to the Epistola Critica of Hare, it is used and quoted once by the editor of the Odes, and in all probability, if he had lived, it would have been used and quoted again. We, however, shall supply the emendation which the sole editor of the Satires has omitted. Sat. iii. Lib. ii. v. 316. illa rogare, Quantane? num tantum, sufflans se, magna fuisset? Dr. Hare, after rejecting the opinions of Bentley and Cuningham, would read Illa rogare Quantane? num tantum sufflans se, magna fuit? tum Vide 328 p. vol. ii. Hare's Works. |