CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE THIRD PAGE. I. On the Use of the Terms Acanthus, Acanthion, &c., in the Ancient Classics. By James Yates II. Eschyli Supplices. Recensuit, emendavit, explanavit ... IV. On the Existence of a Nation bearing the Name of Seres or of a Country called Serica or Terra Serica. By R. VI. Remarks on Professor Long's Paper on the Licinian Law De Modo Agri. By Professor Puchta VII. On the Passage in Appian's Civil Wars (1. 8) which re- 1. Demosthenis de Falsa Legatione. By R. Shilleto. Cam- 2. Revue de Philologie. No. I. Paris, 1845. 8vo. 3. Hesiodi Theogonia. Ed. D. J. Van Lennep. Amstelodami, 4. Panofka, Griechinnen und Griechen, Berlin, 1844, folio; and Die Heilgötter der Griechen, Berlin, 1845, 4to. 5. Eschenburg, Manual of Classical Literature. Philadelphia, IX. On the Age of Babrius. By Professor Th. Bergk X. Baalbec, Palmyra, and the Extreme North-Eastern XI. Professor Voemel's Defence of the Genuineness of the 1. Attempt at a translation of Greek Chorics. By J. Eccleston. 2. Remarks on a Passage in Niebuhr's Lectures. By F. W. N. 3. On the methods of Stating the Date of an Historical Event. 4. On a Passage in St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians. By 5. Remarks on the Origin of Tenses. By F. W. N. 1. On the Origin and Ramifications of the English Language. 2. A Biographical History of Philosophy. By G. H. Lewes. 3. Characteristics of the Greek Philosophers Socrates and ... 1. Attempt at a translation of Greek Chorics. By J. Eccleston. 2. On the word áλíaoroc. By O. R. 3. Discovery of the Seven Missing Books of Galen's principal 1. Pindari Carmina ad fidem textus Böckhiani. Ed. G. G. 2. A Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church. By the Rev. S. F. Jarvis, D.D. London, 1844. 3. The Epodes, Satires, and Epistles of Horace. Translated ... XXXII. On the Topography of Rome. With an Appendix ... 1. Mémoires de la Société Ethnologique. Tom. I. et II. 2. On the languages and dialects of Abyssinia and the countries of the South. By Dr. Beke. 3. Recherches sur les langues Celtiques. Par W. F. Ed- 4. Introduction to a Grammar of the Language of Bur- 1. Mr. Lucas's Models of the Parthenon, and his Remarks on the Parthenon. London and Salisbury, 1845. 2. Aristophanis Acharnenses. Recensuit et interpretatus est F. H. Blaydes. London, 1845. 3. Ternite's Fac-similes of the Paintings on the walls of Pompeii and Herculaneum. (Wandgemälde aus Pom- peji und Herculanum. Nach den Zeichnungen und Englisch-von Prof. Welcker in Bonn. Part I. Berlin, 1845. Largest folio. PAGE. THE CLASSICAL MUSEUM. I. ON THE USE OF THE TERMS ACANTHUS, ACANTHION, &c., IN THE ANCIENT CLASSICS. GREAT confusion exists among the writers of antiquity in the use of the allied terms, "Ακανθος, Ακανθα, Ακάνθιον, Lat. Acanthus, Acanthium; and this confusion is multiplied tenfold by the critics and commentators, who have endeavoured to illustrate these terms by identifying them in the several instances where they occur, with plants known to the modern botanist. Nevertheless, I venture to pursue their steps, because some of the passages to be elucidated occur in the most favourite authors, and are, on other accounts, highly interesting and beautiful. These names, agreeably to their etymology (AC, a point, and ANTH, flower), appear to have been given almost indiscriminately to any spinous flower, to any flowering plant which bore thorns or prickles. These may be conveniently reduced to five classes, each including plants which, though now accurately distinguished in botanical systems, have so many common properties that in ancient times they would all be comprised under the same denomination. I shall produce them according to their order in the Linnæan arrangement. I. THE GENUS ACANTHUS.-Linn. (Didynamia Angiospermia. Nat. Order, Personatæ.) This is the plant known in pharmacy and in the gardens under the name Brank-ursine. It appears to be accurately |