matter occurs in the 254th page of Markland. It is found in p. 135. Vol. I. of the Wariorum edition; and there we read, as we ought to read, the name of Markland. We shall now point out an omission in the Epodes; and probably such an omission, as the deceased editor would have avoided, for reasons which we know to be solid. A. P. v. 439 and 440. Melius te posse negares, Bis terque expertum frustra. Markland, in the very page, where he corrects the punctuation of Ode xxxv. Book 1. proposes a semicolon at expertum, and a colon at frustra. Dr. C. passes over this in silence; and his silence is the more remarkable, because on the 5th line of the A. P. he quotes from the very same page of Markland a new punctuation, and erroneously assigns it to Bowyer. Promittit, persuadet uti mercetur agellum. ́Markland, in p. 255. would read mercatus; and Dr. C. again puts Bowyer's name to Markland's words. Epist. vii. Lib. i. l. 92.—Pol, me miserum, patrone, vocares, &c. Markland, in p. 255. says that Horace, in the 93d line of this epistle, alluded to v. 499. of Iphigen. in Tauris; and here again the Variorum edition, Vol. 11. p. 337. confounds Markland with Bowyer. Epist. i. Lib. i. l. 55. hæc recinunt juvenes dictata senesque, Lævo suspensi loculos tabulamque lacerto. Markland, in p. 255. puts et after senesque, and in p. 287. of the Variorum we meet Bowyer. We must here remark a second omission; for in the very paragraph, part of which the Variorum edition quotes upon the 55th line of the first epistle, Markland proposes a similar addition of et, in the 100th line of Sat. ii. Lib. 2. Ego vectigalia magna et Instead of e. v. m. Divitiasque habeo. We ascribe this omission not to choice, but to inadvertence, unless some reason be assigned for admitting it in one of the above-mentioned places, and rejecting et in the other. Odes. B. iii. Carm. 3. v. 54. -visere gestiens. Markland conjectures, in p. 256. vincere for visere; and in p. 276. Vol. 1. of the Variorum, we have Markland's conjecture, and Markland's name. He reads also, debacchantur, for debacchentur. A. P. v. 431. Ut qui conducti, &c. Markland, in p. 256. would read quæ, for qui; and in p. 527. of the Var. Vol. II. Bowyer appears vice Markland. Odes. Lib. iii. Carm. 2. v. 14.- -Mors et fugacem, &c. Markland, in p. 257. would read efficacem, and for this he is rightly quoted in p. 260. of the 1st Vol. of the Var. We now produce a third, perhaps justifiable, omission; for in A. P. 244th line, Markland, in p. 257. instead of Sylvis deducti, proposes educti, i. e. educati. But this conjecture is left unnoticed in the Variorum edition, and was unmarked in the book sent to Mr. H. Markland, in p. 258., would read "at queis" (pro quibus) and would substitute a comma for the full stop at beatis. But in p. 3. Vol. II. of the Variorum, we again meet with Mr. Bowyer. Odes. Lib. iii. Carm. 29. v. 5. Eripe te moræ ; Markland, in p. 258. produces a noble emendation of this passage, made by his learned friend Nicholas Hardinge, and the same reading is also mentioned by Dr. Taylor in his Elements of Civil Law, p. 37. ut semper-udum Tibur. In the notes on the Odes of the Variorum are produced Taylor's words, and Hardinge's emendation, to which, however, is improperly affixed the name of Markland only, though Markland expressly acknowledges Hardinge to be the author. Epodes iii. v. 20. Markland, p. 258. Jocose Mæcenas, precor Manum puella suavio opponat tuo. reads jocosa for jocose, and joins it with puella, and Dr. C. brings forward Bowyer. Epod. xvi. v. 51. Nec vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile. Markland, p. 258. would substitute vespertinum for vespertinus ; and in p. 611. Vol. 1. of the Variorum, the editor falls into the same error as before. Odes. Lib. iv. Carm. 10. v. 2. Insperata tuæ cum veniet pluma superbiæ. Markland reads pœna, and to Markland the reading is assigned in p. 490. Vol. 1. of the Variorum. Epist. 12. Lib. i. 1. 22. et si quid petet, ultro Defer: Markland, p. 260. would transfer the comma from petet to ultro, which he separates from defer, and joins with petet. But in p. 356. Vol. II. of the Variorum, Bowyer is represented as the author of this punctuation. We now state a fourth instance of omission: for in Epist. xiv. Lib. i. v. 19. Nam quæ deserta et inhospita tesqua, Markland, p. 260. would read tu for nam, and of this conjecture, though marked, no mention is made in the Variorum. Epist. 10. Lib. i. v. 14. Novistine locum potiorem rure beato? Markland, p. 260. reads Sabino for beato; and in p. 345. Vol. 11. of the Variorum, Bowyer is produced. A. P. v. 65. Sterilisque diu palus, aptaque remis. Markland, p. 263. conjectures sterilisve palus pulsataque remis; and in p. 481. Vol. 11. of the Variorum, the name of Bowyer recurs. Sat. ii. Lib. i. v. 130. Markland, p. Miseram se conscia clamet; Cruribus hæc metuat, doti deprensa; egomet mi; Discincta tunica fugiendum est, ac pede nudo,' Ne nummi pereant, aut pyga, aut denique fama. 263. would substitute commas for semicolons after deprensa & mi. He throws out the line discincta tunica, &c. and in the close of the next line he would transpose pyga and fama, for all which changes the Variorum, p. 35. Vol. 11. gives the name of Bowyer. We have laid before our readers four (we do not say improper) instances of omission in the Variorum, twelve instances of error in the Epodes, Satires, and Epistles, where Bowyer is put for Markland, four instances of right quotation from Markland in the Odes, and one instance in which Markland's name is by mere oversight, subjoined to an emendation, which M. himself ascribes to N. Hardinge. We formerly stated, that Mr. H. to the best of our recollection, lived till part of the fourth book of the Odes was advanced in the press. After his death, Dr. C. may, in many respects, be considered as the sole editor, and by him the name of Bowyer is first introduced into the Epodes, and continued to the close of the second volume. But why then did he overlook the name of Markland when it so often occurs in the Odes, and when it there relates to the very book which contains the very emendations produced by Dr. C. himself in the works of Horace, which follow the Odes? Neither the title-page of the quarto volume, which Dr. C. ascribes to Bowyer, contains the name of Markland, nor the dedication which follows the title-page, nor Dr. Heberden's Address to the Reader, which follows the dedication, nor the explicationes veterum aliquot auctorum, which follow the tract upon the third Latin declension. But every learned reader must know that Markland was the author. The joint editor of the Odes had again and again produced the name of Markland,' and surely when Dr. Combe perused the first volume of the Variorum, to the dedication of which his own name is subjoined, he must again and again have met with Markland's notes, and Markland's name. Did he then suspect any error in his coadjutor? We believe not. Has he given any reason why the Odes speak of Markland, and the Epodes, Satire, and Epistles of Bowyer? No. How then can he account for the inconsistency between Mr. Homer and Dr. C. We know that Mr. Homer considered Markland as the author of these emendations. We imagine that Dr. C. by some means or other, was 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 name 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 1 He only produces the name, without referring explicitly to the observations. 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 above-mentioned treatises," ut argumentum præcedens, inamænum 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, page 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 upon 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. Primus in hunc operis componere carmina morem. Sat. iii. L. xi. v. 154. Ingens accedit stomacho fultura ruenti. M. reads in p. 69. Ingesta for ingens. Ibidem. v. 182. In cicere atque faba bona tu perdasque lupinis, (We follow Bentley's reading et aeneus for aut æneus.) Ep. i. 1. 2. 207. lana Tarentino violas imitata veneno. M. p. 91. reads lana for lana. 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, Largus ut in circo spatiere, et aeneus ut stes Nudus agris, nudus nummis, insane, paternis, 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 ať obstat, and place a mark of interrogation at recurras. Epist. ii. Lib. i. v. 25. Sub domina meretrice fuisset turpis et excors. M. 100. proposes for excors, exsors. Od. vi. Lib. i. Scriberis Vario fortis, et hostium Vietor, Mæonii carminis aliti. M. p. 107. proposes alteri for aliti. Epist. vi. Lib. i. v. 11. Improvisa simul species exterret utrumque. Epist. vii. Lib. i. v. 40. proles patientis Ulyssei. M. p. 134. reads sapientis for patientis. Epist. xvii. Lib. i. v. 62. Quære peregrinum, vicinia rauca reclamat. Epist. ii. Lib. ii. v. 28. post hoc vehemens lupus, et sibi et hosti Iratus pariter. M. p. 166. reads-post hoc (vehemens lupus ut) sibi et hosti Iratus. 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 : Bp. Hare is quoted three times in the first volume of the Variorum, and in the second he is not quoted once. 1 Od. i. Lib. i. v. 35. Quod si me Lyricis vatibus inseres, |