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On comparing thefe Sententia with the fragments which we have already mentioned to be preserved in Stobeus, and in Maximus and Antonius, there feems to be, as the learned Gale has justly obferved in his preface, fufficient evidence that one of the writers, who contributed his fhare to increase the fame of Pythagoras, was the fame SEXTIUS from whofe writings the Monkih collectors have preferved fix fhort fragments, and whofe Sententie were tranflated and interpolated, and affigned to another Author by Ruffinus.

We cannot but remark on this occafion, though without any view of leffening the fame of Gale, who, in many respects, merited the reputation which he obtained, that he was not the first who conjectured that the Sententia Xyli were tranflations from Sextius the philofopher, and not the production of any ecclefiaftic. The fame idea occurred to Jacobus Thomafius, who publifhed it in the second volume of Faber's Thefaurus Eruditionis Schrlaftica, under the article XYSTUS, which we are informed to have been the production of this acute fcholar by Fabricius, in his Bibliotheca Latina, vol. iii. p. 501. lib. iv. c. 3.

Thefe Sententia were publifhed again at Leipfic, 1725, in 4to, by Urbanus Godof. Siberus, a man juftly celebrated for his knowledge in ecclefiaftical hiftory, on whom Pinius very improperly beftows the contemptible title of Sciolus.

Siberus, in this publication, attempts to refute the arguments. of Gale and Thomafius, and afferts, that thefe Sententia are abfolutely the production of Sixtus II. fometimes called Sextus, and Xyftus. To this opinion of Siberus we can by no means affent; and, indeed, we are confirmed in our fentiments by the concurring teftimony of the following eminent fcholars :

FABRICIUS, in his Bibliotheca Latina, vol. 1. p. 732. vol. iii. p. 501. Bibliotheca Graca, vol. ii. p. 411. In his Catalogue of the Stoics, V. SEXTIUS, vol. xiii. p. 643. where the Reader will find a full account of this difpute, and of the editions of Sextius.

SHOETTGENIUS, in his fupplementary and fixth volume to Fabricius's Biblioth. Latin. mediæ et infimæ Ætatis, p. 553.

BRUCKER, in his Hiftoria Critica Philofophia. Per. ii. p. 1. lib. i. c. 11. fect. 2. vol. ii. p. 86; in which he collects all the various opinions about Quintus Sextius; and p. 90. where he gives a fummary view of the arguments produced both in favour of Sixtus II. and in favour of Sextius the philofopher with refpect to this Enchiridion Sententiarum.

SAXIUS, in his Onomatticon, vol. i. p. 369, 370. where he refers to another work of his own, intitled, Quaft. Liter. Hiftor. with which we have never been able to meet, where the title of Sextius to thefe Sententia is further frengthened, and that of Xyftus further abrogated.

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To the opinions of these learned men, we beg leave to fubfcribe our own; which, though we do it without any peremptory affertions, may merit fome refpect, and lay claim to fome influence. For we have carefully and accurately perufed all the remaining fragments of Sextius, both in Greek and Latin, and have coolly and deliberately examined all the authors, whether ancient or modern, who have delivered their fentiments on this fubject. With a lift of the writers who have mentioned our Philofopher, we shall conclude this account.

ANCIENT WRITERS.

Antonius Monachus, Vid.
Maximus.
Autor Appendicis ad Ifidorum.
de Vitiis et Virtutibus, a
Mabill. editus. p. 62.
Auguftinus, Retract. 2. 42. et
alibi de Natur. i. Gratia.
c. 49. lib. ii.
Claudianus Mamertus Prefbyt.
de Anima.
Eufebius, Chron. p. 200.
Gelafius in Decreto. (Si fit
Gelafii.)
Hieronymus ad Ctefiph. ad
Pelag, vol. iii. p. 115. In
Jerem. c. 22. vol. v. p. 148.
In Ezeck. c. 18. Ibid. p. 206.

and vol. i. p. 24. Hieronymus in Chron. p. 156. Ildefonfus de Script. Ecclef. c. i. Laurent. Pifanus, in Sententiis.

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Maximus et Antonius, Monachi, p. 8. 42. 96. 194. 197. 215. 228. Maximus S. in Dionyf. Areop. c. 5. Myfter. Theolog. ii. p. 85. Origines c. Celfum. viii. p.

397. In Matth. p. 369. Plinius N. Hiftor. xviii. 68. v. ii. p. 136.

Plutarch de Profect. in Virtut. vi. 288. de Ira cohib. vii. 789. Quintilian. Inftitut. Orat. x. 920. Ed. Burm. Seneca, Ep. 49. 59. 64. 73.

84. 98. 108. de Ira. ii. iii. Qæft. Nat. vii.

Seneca. Rhetor Controv. ii. Suetonius, Illuftr. Gram. i. p. 381. Ed. Burm.

WRITERS.

Commentatores Sextii in variis editionibus.

Faber N. in Senec. Rhet.
Controv. ii. Præf.
Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. ii. 411.
xiii. 643.

Bibl. Lat. i. 731. iii.

643. Freytag. Adparat. Literar. vol. i. 655.

Frienfhemius Suppl. in Livium, lib. cxvi. 41.

Colerus in Anthol. 1. fafc. 1. Galeus, Præf. ad Mythol. O

ep. viii. p. 52.

pufc.

Gaudentius

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-, marine, analysed, ib.
Acids, the compofition of, 209.
Lavoifier's doctrine concerning
them refuted, ib.

Addifon, his ftyle of writing at-

tacked, and defended, 68.
Agriculture, benefited by inclo-
fures of waftes, &c. 74. That
of the county of Norfolk ex-
plained and recommended, go.

memoirs of, and of
rural and domeftic economy,
published by the Royal Society
of Paris, for the years 1785
and 1786, 581.
Ahaz, Ifaiah's prophecy to, as a
fign, &c. appealed to, as one
great argument of the truth of
Christianity, 267.
Air, temperature of, in different
latitudes, 45. How estimated,
ib. Component parts of, 121.
Producible from water, 126.
Specific gravity of nine differ-
ent kinds of, 209.
-, dephlogifticated, produced
from water, 337. From raw

filk, 339.

Air, fixed, diffolves a fone in
the bladder, 360.

nature of different kinds
of air, 528.

the quantity of phlogiston
in it, how ascertained, 551.

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atmospheric, its component
parts, 531. Salubrity of, in
different places, 552.
Air-pump, a new one, without
valves, 558.

America, antiquities found there,
329. Travels in, 39. Tarle-
ton's history of his campaigns
there, 75. First bishops ap-
pointed there, 86. Plan of a
new conftitution for the United
States of, 489. Impolicy of
France in affifting the Ameri-
cans in their revolt from Great
Britain, 562.

Anchor, a nautical machine, call-
ed the fwimming anchor, in-
vention of, not to be afcribed
to Dr. Franklin, 256.
Animals, their difcriminating cha-
racteristics, obfcurity of, 469.
Antiquities in North America, ac-
count of, 329.

Apologue, high antiquity of that
fpecies of writing, 568. Eaft-

ern, fome account of, 570.
Aqua Regia, its compofition, 210.
Arianifm attacked on philosophi-
cal principles, 151.
Ariftotle. See Cooke.
Arteaga, his hiftory of the Italian-

opera, 545
Arts, fine, their chief object, 204.
Atmosphere, the heat of, at dif-

ferent heights, 45. Caused by.
the quantity of vapour, 123.

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