JUST PUBLISHED. CLASSICAL. A SPLENDID edition of Juvenal, in 2 vols. royal octavo, has just appeared from the press of Firmin Didot of Paris. It has for its title "Decimi Junii Juvenalis Satiræ ad codices Parisinos recensitæ, lectionum varietate et commentario perpetuo illustratæ, à Nic. Lud. Achaintre. Accedunt Hadriani et Caroli Valesiorum notæ adhuc ineditæ." The learned Editor informs his readers in a well-written Preface, that he has collated no less than thirty-six manuscripts in the Imperial Library, and adopted the readings which seemed to have the greatest number of authorities. The readings which he has rejected have been carefully collected in the second volume. The text of Juvenal, with a copious commentary at the bottom of each page, occupy the first volume, which is embellished with an elegant engraved frontispiece, representing the famous Turbot, alluded to in the fourth Satire. As an appendix, we find the following Roman weights and measures reduced to the standard of France-1. Mensuræ Romanorum Lineares-2. Mensuræ Romanorum Itinerariæ-3. Mensuræ Romanorum Gromatica-4. Mensuræ Romanorum Capacitatis ad solida pertinentes- 5. Mensuræ Romanorum Capacitatis ad liquida pertinentes 6. Mensuræ Romanorum Pondera. The second volume contains-1. Vita Juvenalis è maxime probabilibus conjecturis digesta ab editore-2. Elenchus Codicum MSS. D. Junii Juvenalis qui nunc extant in Bibliothecâ Imperiali Parisiensi-3. Elenchus Codicum ab Alex. Ruperti collatorum4. Elenchus Editionum Juvenalis ab anno 1470. ad annum 1801–5. Versiones Juvenalis, Gallicæ, Anglica, Germanicæ, Belgicæ, Danicæ, Hispanicæ, Italicæ -6. De Scholiastis Juvenalis et iis omnibus qui hunc Poetam notis atque commentariis illustraverunt—7. Hadriani Valesii Consiliarii et Historiographi Regii in D. Jun. Juvenalis Satiras Notæ, labore et studio Caroli Valesii Hadriani filii, in senatu Parisiensi Causarum Patroni qui suas in Juvenalem notas adjecit. This elegant commentary of Adrian de Valois was supposed to have been lost, although it was repeatedly referred to by the learned of the last century. It fell into the hands of M. Achaintre within these few years.-8. Veteres Commentarii à P. Pithæo, primùm editi Lutetiæ. An. M. DL. xxxv. in 8vo. The numerous editions of this Juvenal, according to M. Achaintre, are a sufficient proof of the estimation in which it is held.-9. Index Vocabulorum omnium quæ in Satiris Juvenalis leguntur. M. Van Lennep, of Amsterdam, has published a new edition of the Heroides of Ovid, and the Epistolæ of Sabinus, upon the plan of the editions of Heinsius and Burmannus: M. Van Lennep has carefully collated the MSS. preserved at Paris and Leyden; and his Animadversiones, which occupy one half of the volume, are full of valuable information on the subject of ancient Mythology and Philology. The same learned editor has announced a new edition of Hesiod. There has been lately published at Leyden, an edition of the following work: "Incerti Auctoris (vulgò Pindari Thebani) Epitome Iliados Homericæ, è recensione et cum notis Theodori Van Kooten. Edidit, præfatus est, suasque animadversiones adjecit, Henricus Weytingh, apud Campenses Gymnasii Publici Rector." Various editions of this work have been published, but according to the present Dutch editions, none of them have done sufficient justice to the merits of the original. The name of the author of this Poem, and the era at which he lived, are equally unknown. The name of Pindarus Thebanus is evidently fictitious. 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