No I. of the Herculean Labour; Or, the Augaean Stable Cleansed ... Being Serious and Facetious Remarks, by Mr. Ozell, on Some Thousands of ... Defects in the Folio Translation of the Roman History by the REV. Mr. Bundy. ... at the End Is Subjoyn'd the Firs (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1729 Excerpt: ...tie humato. They that underftand French will judge which is in the right, Mr. B. or my felf, in tranfcribing pld Records as they are in themfelves, as alfo whether his Translation as to Diction is fo fuperior to mine. The turn I give the above period is this; Such women as died when they were with (hild, MIGHT not be bury'd, nor burn'd, before thty were open'd, to fave their FRUIT, 'fo break this Law, was Homicide. Ib. 1. 33-After the word "January. Numa did more than_ this. Left out, II fit plus. I know the Authors of this Hiftory repeat thofe words a little too often. But fometimes fuch an emphatical phrafe is not ouly beautiful but neceflary, as here. So again in p. 86. 1. 3t. After Door-Cafe, This Was not enough, He leaves out. So again p. 88. 1 jo. He made -fe of another Artifice. After tourage. Ib. p. 73. n. So. The laft part of the Note relating to Jnftituting the days which the Romans call'd Fafti and Nefafti, and which Macrobius diftinguifhes into three, viz. fefti, Projefli, Interciji. The fir/I, Mr. B. fays, were confecrated to the worjhip of the Gods; the fecond were fet apart for public k And private bnfinefsj the laft were divided between Both. Wou'd not one think by the word Both, and by piablick and private bufinefs being the antecedent, that the laft were divided between publick and private bufinefs. Whereas the Original is clear enough, and is as I tranflate it: the laft were divided between the Worjhip of the Gods, and hearing of Caufes, and following Douieftick bufinefs: that is, they were Half-holidays, for that's the meaning of the word interfifi. Les derniers etoient partages entre le cults des Dieux, & iff Joins des affaires, on civile f, on a'omejiiques. B. XI. B. II. p. 75-. 1. 26. Mr-B. fays, fpeaking of what is faid...