OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSICS

tation on the Olympic Games, &c. by Gilbert West. London, 1750. 2 vols. in 12mo. West has learning, good sense, and a tolerable style of versification ; but Gray and Dryden alone should have translated the Odes of Pindar, and they did much better than translate.

In the Greek Poets of Henry Stephens and Lectius, and en the Analecta and Poetæ Gnomici of Brunck, we may read the fragments yet extant of CALLINUS, ARCHILOCHUS, ALcMAN, MELANIPPIDES, IBycus, TELEs- TEs,. MimneRMuS, ALcæus, SAPPHO, ERINNA, StesicHorus, SIMONIDES, Panyasis, BaccuyLipes. The shipwreck of lyric poetry is the heaviest loss the Grecian literature has sustained. How delightful would it be to glow with the free-born ardour of Alcæus, and to melt with the amo- Tous passion of Sappho! Yet Pindar still survives, the last, but, according to the ancients, the greatest of the lyric choir. The dearest objects of my regret are the better Jambics of Archilochus, (whose inventive genius has been compared with that of Homer himself,) and the pathetic elegies of Simonides, of which such an exquisite specimen has escaped the injuries of time.

The fragments of the martial Tyrtæus, (and they are indeed martial), which are contained in the Analecta et Poete Gnomici of Brunck, have been published in separate editions.

SPARTAN Lessons, or the praise of valour, by TyrTzus, in Greek. Glasgow, 1759, in 8vo.

Tyxtzus, Greek and Latin; a Christian. Adolpho Klotzio. Altenburg, 1767, in 8vo.

LE Tueatre pes Grecs, pak Le PERE Brumoy; Amsterdam, 1732, 6 vols. in 12mo. and the last improved edition, Paris, 1785—89. 12 vols. in 8vo. Like most of the Jesuits, Brumoy was a literary bigot, and a superficial scholar. Instead of studying the original, he uses and abuses the Latin version (uv, sexcenti, six cent.). Yet on the faith of this worthy.interpreter, many a French critic has talked about the Greek theatre. |

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