ANTHON'S Cicero, with English Notes and Indexes. Mr. PRIEsTLEY has
published a new edition of what are called Ciczao's Select Otations,—meaning the four againstC ATIL1 NE, together with Those for ARCH( AS, MARCELLUs, MURENA, and the Manilian Law. Like the works of SALLusT, with which this edition corresponds, the elaborate commentaries of Professor A NTHON follow the text ; a dialogue on the life and writings of them) precedes it ; anti very valuable historical, geographical, and legal indexes conclude the whole. These latter are distinguished for brevity and suffi- ciency; the commentary, especially in the interpretation, is some- what too copious. The editor, indeed, defends himself from this charge, by pleading the necessity of giving full information to
pupils. This may be true as respects allusions of the text, but not as regards weakening it by paraphrase. How much more pithy and striking is the literal translation of the abrupt exordium
against CATILINE, when the more than suspected conspirator
took his place in the Senate—" How long, 0 Catiline, will you abuse our patience ?" than the "How far then, Catiline, wilt thou trifle with our patience r
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