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GREEK LETTER OF BENNET LANGTON.

MR. EDITOR,

As you have been kind enough to insert (No. XXIX. pp. 179, 180.) a specimen of JOHN TWEDDELL's early attempts in the composition of Greek verse, before he quitted Hartforth School for Trinity College, Cambridge; I am encouraged to beg admission for another curious article, in Greek prose, from the pen of BENNET LANGTON, recorded as one of Dr. Johnson's much loved and justly valued friends.

The writer, from the date 1801, (and vide Life of Johnson, v. 1. pp. 223, 4, 5.) must have been nearly a Septuagenarian at the time. The Letter itself is addressed to a young Gentleman then a student, I believe, at the University of Edinburgh, and attending the Greek class of Professor Dalzel; and though not free from faults obvious to the critical eye, yet even such an TiσTÓλov bears high testimony to both the correspondent parties.

In the prime of life, what must Bennet Langton have been !
« Ο suavis anima, quale in te dicam bonum
"Antehac fuisse, tales cum sint reliquiæ !

29th May, 1817.

Βένεττος Λάγγτονος

Ιωάννη Ιλέρμῳ Μακκείῳ
Εὖ πράττειν.

R. S. Υ.

Ἐκομισάμην τὸ σοῦ ἐπιστόλιον, καὶ ἡδύ μοι ἐγένετο, ὅταν ἀνοίξας εἶδον αὐτὸ Ἑλληνιστὶ φθεγγόμενον· καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ τεκμηρίου, πιθανῶς ἐστι συμβαλεῖν ὑπάρξειν σε ἐκ τῶν παιδείᾳ εὐδοκιμούντων. Πιστεύω δὲ, ὅτι οὐδ ̓ ἄν τις μετά μελός σε ἔχοι τῶν ἐπιχειρηθέντων· τίς γὰρ ἔξαρνος εἴη τὴν παιδείαν εἶναι τὸ τιμιώτατον τῶν χρημάτων. Καλῶς οὖν σοι καὶ ἐπιτυχῶς εὔχομαι τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἐπιτήδευσιν τήνδε φέρεσθαι· καὶ ἐν τῷ τοῦ σκόπου τούτου ἀξιεπαίνων ἐπιστοχά ζεσθαι, οὐκ ἀμελήσεις, (εὖ οἶδ' ὅτι ἔνασθαι τῆς παιδεύσεως τοῦ αἰδεσίμου Μεαρσίου, τοῦ ἄνδρος ἀγαθοῦ καὶ λογίου, ὃς νῦν σε ἐπιτετραμμένος ἐστὶν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν διατελέσεις αὐτὸν θεραπεύων. Ἔρρωσο.

Ποσειδεώνος πέμπτῃ ἱσταμένου. Ἔτει ἀπὸ τῆς Θεογονίας πρώτῳ πρὸς τοῖς χιλίοις καὶ ὀκτακοσίοις.

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