Volume 2

A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's Magazine / [By John Walker].

Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's Magazine / [By John Walker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be published. Augustus indeed, the same author* ob- ■ erves, forbid the publication of the former to be continued, but there is no reason to think his prohibition extended to the lattei. It is certainly suitable to the genius of an abso- lute monarchy, that its counsels should not be publicly known; but the amusing and trifling topics for discourse, which the common events of a great city afford, are so far from being offensive under such a constitution, that they lather serve to draw off the minds of the people from in- quiring into affairs of a more important and secret nature. 1 he antiquaries pretend to have discovered some of these papers: those, which relate to the 585th year of Rome were first published by f Pighius in his annals. He tells us that they were given him by James Susius, who found them amongst the papers of Ludovicus Vives. He does not seem to doti it in the least of their being genuine, and even makes use of them to correct a passage in Livy. TDodwell inserted them in his Camdenian lectures, together with some additional Acta of the year of Rome 691. A friend of his, Hadrian Beverland, had received them from Isaac Vossius who transcribed them from a parcel of inscriptions, which 1 etavius had prepared for the press. I shall now communi- cate to my readers some extracts from the papers themselves, observing only, that the names of Paulus ^milius the con- * Ag. C. 36. Primus omnium instituit, ut tarn senatus quam populi di- ?u™ “ thS JuK?r et pulj!ica/entUr- T“ese °ld* Suetonh,^ imply juitner, that Julius Caesar was tiie first who ordered the acts of the 1117■% “ P^n.h.d, andlllhtSon rf ti Z 1 ■ ’ some men of learning have suspected the genuineness iy be taTea„’ff° fthweeAeCta- H B“f perhapS thc o?f SuetonTufwS i:,./., „ * lf e cons'der that a numerous, grave, and regular bodv JSttesssas ~csi rs - « && Orations nAL.kl J ,roln tne rouowing passage in one of Tullv’s ■ r b'ins bn? *•*« «* in tabulas publicas relatum ut ex' t I I ^ <Urn sc,rern lta indicium »» ..S'uTdom^’sed T'”' «h„ Lunce of t ; llf °f ‘“spect « EZZ2SZZ& ”S genuity. I should male this 1 “ 8)°°d deaI °f ka™ing *>‘d in- App. 665. and 690.
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