Conjectural Emendations on Passages in Ancient Authors. By Christopher Wordsworth,
D.D. (Rivingtons.)—The notice of this little volume comes long after date, but we should be sorry to leave unacknowledged the last contribution to classical scholarship of one of the most learned men of his day. The Bishop's emendations take a wide range of authors, sacred and secular. One of the most elegant and easily stated is on Theocritus, xiv., 16. The passage gives a bill of fare. The words stand in the common text, BoAfids Tls uoxlaccs, T1S being the puzzle ; and the Bishop suggests Errs's, a scallop, a word elsewhere found in connection with onions and cockles. (He did not, however, introduce it into his last edition of the poet.) In Horace, at p. 65, "Regis opus sterilisque diu pains aptaque remis," where the shortening of the final syllable of " palus " is the crux, he would transpose " palus " and "din," making a harsh but not impossible elision. In Ov., I., xvi., 14, for "Limo coactus particulam undique " be proposes coactis, meaning the animals which have been collected for the purpose. Of three other papers, the most important is that on "Pompeian Inscriptions," an interesting study, in which Bishop Wordsworth was a pioneer.
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