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    No . 5674 . This collation may be regar ^ d as a rnodel for similar performances . The MS . had been before collated , but very

    imperfectly , by Thomas Bentley . It is valuable not only on account of its text , but for much information contained in the scholia , similar to that of the Venetian

    . MSS . of the Iliad , published by Villoison , respecting the readings of the ancient Alexandrian grammarians , Aristophanes , Aristarchus , Sec . Some extracts from the Scholia ,, are given in the course of the collation ; it is much to be desired that the whole were

    publishedin the edition of Herodotus , published at Edinburgh 180 G , i \ Ir . Poison is said to have borne a small share . In his latest period of study , Mr . Porson was en *> a < zed in a

    collation of Kuhn ' s Pan manias , wjth the Aldine edition , and some materials in that of Facius ( imperfectly used by that editor ) for the purpose of forming a supplement to the edition of Kulin . i That he would have thrown much

    incidental light on that writer , c ; innot be doubted by those who have observed an emendation communicated by Mr . Beloe in his Anecdotes of literature 7 and who have examined the additional

    'lotos in the last edition of the Hecuba . The collation of the Aldine edition was , we believe , completed . Air . Porson printed a few additional pages lor the purpose of

    s upplying the lacuna in the Leyden edition of Simplicius , ( 1640 . ) with a passage of consideiable ^ ngth , discovered in a M . S . by Sdiwei ghoeustT , which -restores connexion to a place before mi-

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    serably deficient in it . A few original observations are added . He likewise reprinted two important notes of Musgrave , omitted in Beck ' s edition of Euripides , with the addition of a single line of original observation .

    His great work , had he lived to complete it , would probably have been the publication of the Lex - icon of Photius , which exists in a single ancient copy belonging to Trinity College ^ Cambridge . A

    few modern transcripts of it , generally we believe somewhat incorrect ^ have found their way to different parts of Europe . The whole of this MS . which is a folio volume , was twice transcribed

    by Mr . Porson in the most careful and beautiful manner . Whether he had prepared any annotations , we know not ; the transcript however is complete , and will not , we hopc ^ be withheld from the world . To his

    familiarity with this volume , Mr . Porson has been heard to observe that he was chiefly indebted for that skill in palseography , which he so eminently possessed , and which in his employment was a most powerful instrument of cri - ticism , lie was also much

    occupied by a beautiful MS . of Plato , brought from Greece by Dr . Clarke ^ written in the early part of the tenth century . This MS . preserves various peculiarities of the Atcic dialect , which lire neglected in more recent

    copies . It confirms the emendation of a passage in the Symposium proposed by Mr . P .. in a note on the Medea , p . 5 S aract the Scholia contain some "curious literary information not elsewhere to be obtained . Mr . Poison was at some peri -

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    ILiterary Memoir of the late Professor Porson . 537

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/13/