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$60 ; COXE’S TRAVELS IN RUSSTA.
With refpeé to claffical literature ; the Greek language is yet taught in few fchools,
is fcarcely known to the laity, and isa rare qualification even among the regular
clergy. Latin is more common, being underftood by many of the clergy, and not
unfrequently cultivated by perfons of improved education. Many of the’ claflics have
been tranflated by natives into the Ruffian tongue; feveral editions of the moft ap-
proved Greek and Roman authors have been publifhed at Mofcow and Peterfburgh ;
but the editors have been chiefly foreigners, encouraged to this attempt by the pa-
tronage of the Ruffian nobles, who are not deficient in antient literature, and excited
by the open genius of the nation. Among the natives, who have rendered themfelves
illuftrious in this branch of knowledge, I muft not omit Plato, Archbifhop of Mofcow,
who is highly eminent for claffical learning ; and, among the naturalized foreigners,
Eugenius, Archbifhop of Slavenfk and Kherfon, who, in the true {pirit of the original,
has tranflated into Greek hexameters the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil; a work
printed in folio, at the expence of Prince Potemkin, and exhibiting a magnificent fpe-
cimen of typography.
Homer’s Batraychomyomachia ; Charaters of Theophraftus ; /Elian; Herodian ; Diodorus Siculus ;’Te-
rence; Cicero De Finibus ; Cxfar’s Commentaries: Three Epiitles of Ovid; his Metamorphofes in profe ;
Tacitus de Moribus Germanorum; Paterculus ; Valerius Maximus ; Stritter’s Memorie populorum olim ad
Danubium incolentium e Script. Byzan. Hif}. erute ; Muller’s Account of the Antient inhabitants of Ruffia ;
Gmelin’s Travels through Ruffia; Pallas’s Travels through Ruffia; His Pruffian Majefty’s Treatife on
the Reafon for making and repealing Laws; Montefquieu’s Confiderations fur la grandeur et la decadence des
Romains ; his Lyfimaque, Dialogue de Sylla et d’Eucrate, Effai fur le Gout, and Temple de Guide ; Dimfdale’s
Treatife on Inoculation ; Chalotais fur Education; Hiltory and Treatifes of the Amflerdam Society for
Recovery of drowned Perfons; The Ottoman Empire; Republic of Ragufa, Great Britain, Portugal,
Kingdom of Pruffia, from Bufching’s Geography ; Voltaire’s Candide ; a Dialogue of St. Evremond be-
tween three perfons of different fentiments ; various articles from the Encyclopedix Jutti’s Foundation of
the Power and Happinefs of States: Calliere de la maniere de negocier avec les fouverains; Rouifeau’s
Abridgement of St. Pierre’s Projet d’une paix perpetuelle ; St. Real’s Confpiration des Efpagnols contre la
Republique de Venife; Vertot’s Revolutions Romaines 5 Mably’s Hiffoire Grecque ; Chinefe Refle&tions fron
the Manfhur tongue; The Vifible World ; Lambert’s Traité de? Amitié ; ‘Tallo’s Jerufalemme Liberata ;
Gulliver’s Travels ; Jofeph Andrews; Jonathan Wild the Great ; Amelia; of the Ventriloquilts; Gellert’s
Betfchwefter; the Art of being polite ; Letters upon feveral Phyfical and Philofophical Subje&s ; Macquer’s
€hymiltry ; the Duty of an Officer; Di€tionary of the French Academy ; on the Advantage of inftrud-
ing Youth in Claffical Literature ; Rollin’s Belle’s Lettres ; Bell’s Journey through Roffia. :
This lift mentions eighty-three books, the tranflations whereof were in the prefs; feventy-eight of
which tranflations were making ; and fixty-three, which the committee propofed to be tranflated.
I have received an aceount of the following tranflations, which have been fince made :
Henriade ; Diable Boiteux; Gellert?’s Works; Aderfon’s Hiftory of Commerce ; Robertfon’s Hiftory
of Charles V. from the French tranflation; Pallas Samlungen Mongelifchen Volkerfchaften; Englifh Gram-
mar; Homer’s Iliad: Virgil’s /Zceid ; Lucian’s Dialogues ; Milton’s Paradife Loft; Coyer’s Hiffoire de
7. Sobiefti ; Montefquieu’s E/prit des Loix ; Mallet’s fif, de Dannemarc ; Hi/l. Generale de Voyages ; Vir=
gil’s Eclogues and Georgics ; Cicero de Natura Deorum; Plato’s Works ; Hefiod ; Coxe’s Ruffian Dif-
coveries ; Les Incas de Marmontel; Bielficld’s Political Inftitutions ; Hi?. dela Maifon de Brandenburgh s
Memsires de Sully ; Blackftone’s Commentaries ; Hilt. Aug. Script. Sex; Pope’s Eflay on Man; Locke
on Education; Livy; feveral Epiftles and Odes of Horace; Young’s Six Weeks Tour, tranflated by
particular order of the Emprefs, for the purpofe of diffuling the knewledge of practical agriculture,
&c, &e,
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