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17 (Bundle 22.)

History of the Académie des Inscriptions. Paris, Pancouke. In quarto. Volume 13.

= On the Cabiri, by Mr. Fréret.

Note. Because Herodotus and Plato always name Hesiod before Homer when they mention these two poets, the Count de Caylus very rightly concludes that Hesiod preceded Homer by a few years.

Addition. — On the paintings of Polygnotus described by Pausanias. (Page 54, volume 13. The Count de Caylus.) These are the two paintings that stirred up that quarrel between Falconnet the sculptor and Mr. Diderot, in which I became involved.

18 (Bundle 8.)

People speak of the extreme purity of the Greek language. Yet Simmias of Rhodes (cited by Suidas), who lived at the beginning of the Olympiads, had published three books entitled Glosses, that is to say, Collection of Greek Words Borrowed from Foreign Languages. (See on page 132 the memoir entitled Researches on the Authors from Whom Parthenius of Nicaea Drew His Narratives, by Mr. Le Beau the younger.)

19 (Same leaf.)

The literature of peoples begins with fables and ends with novels.

S1.Source editor’s annotationAnother leaf (undated) contains notes Joubert took while reading the fourteenth volume of the History of the Académie des Inscriptions, and in it, notably, “various memoirs by the Count de Caylus.” Page 111: “Egyptian figures, carved... legs — page 218. — Look for a passage relating (I think) to the legs of archaic sculpture, which are roughly carved but which walk. This may serve to date, together with this leaf (which is of no importance), the more important leaves containing extracts from volumes XIII and XV. On this leaf there is a short notice about Mr. de Burigny. “Note. Mr. de Burigny devoted his labors particularly to investigating the character and life of authors once celebrated and whose works we do not possess. An enemy of the oblivion of great names, he puts all his glory into destroying it. The ravages of time have had no more constant repairer. His long life enabled him himself to bring a great number of extinguished reputations back to life. He has taught us many things which, worthy of being known, are not even studied in the books one studies, and thus lie outside common curiosity. (See several of his investigations in the History of the Académie des Inscriptions.)”

T19.The work title is translated freshly while the institution’s name remains French. Pancouke retains the literal source spelling without bibliographic correction; In 4. is contextually rendered in quarto as a format. Canonical source collation distinguishes the raised ordinal e in 13ᵉ from the separate raised annotation call 1 before the baseline final period. English Volume 13 adapts the source ordinal to a cardinal volume label. All bibliographical body text is roman; no external edition is claimed verified.

T24.This complete source-editor annotation remains one paragraph, including its quoted loose-leaf material. The unclosed quotation beginning Egyptian figures is retained before the later Note opening, without an invented closing mark. All page and volume numbers, undated status, parenthetic I-think and importance contrast remain. May serve renders the possibility of dating expressed by future pourra; no date is assigned. English supplies a comma after the which-is-of-no-importance parenthesis. Explicit but which and and whose preserve the separate mais qui and et dont relative connections. French has feminine taillées earlier but anomalous masculine taillés after jambes later; English carved does not reproduce that gender distinction. Scues remains literal French. Only Nota. and its English Note. counterpart are italic, including their periods; other annotation text, titles and Roman numerals are roman. The vivid walking legs, extinguished reputations, oblivion and repairer images are not reduced to biographical summary. The first quoted memoir phrase keeps English terminal punctuation inside its closing quotation mark although the French period follows the guillemet. No implied date, external memoir or quotation has been authenticated.

T188.In the French source, printed item 17 has four separate paragraphs and italic Liasse 22. label, without a date. Original color/native 451 show a smaller raised e after 13, followed by the separately raised annotation call 1 before the baseline period. The source body stores 13ᵉ while the call remains separate metadata. Pancouke is literal; no external bibliography is substituted. Only Nota. in paragraph 3 is italic, including its period. The titles, equals sign, Addit., all names and the parenthetic page/volume reference are roman. Poëtes has two separate upper e components in color; native foreground has reproduction degradation. Polignote and Falconnet remain literal. All ordinary wraps and right endings are complete; the external page numbers do not identify notebook destinations.

T189.In the French source, the complete separate annotation is one paragraph. Its raised call follows the distinct raised ordinal e after 13 and precedes the main baseline period. Only Nota. is italic, including its period; all other annotation text, work titles and Roman XIII/XV are roman. The quotation opened at Figures has no separate visible closing guillemet before the later Nota opening. No closing mark is supplied. The final guillemet follows the complete parenthesis. The three-point group after taillées is printed, not an image loss. The earlier taillées is feminine, while the later source has masculine taillés after jambes; the printed agreement is not repaired. Scues and the circumflex of fît remain. The source has explicit mais qui and et dont; its future pourra retains a possibility of dating, not an assigned date. Page 111, page 218, the fourteenth volume and XIII/XV are bibliographical reference data, not dates or new notebook entries. All ordinary wraps and right endings are complete in the color witness. The native upper annotation crop clips its lower continuation; the complete color lower crop supplies the remainder. No external quotation or historical claim is authenticated here.

T20.The initial equals sign, title and abbreviated honorific remain. Cabiri is the conventional English form of Cabires, but no particular article or cult history is added.

T21.Note freshly translates Nota.; only this cue, including its period, is italic in each language. Always, before, both poets, very-rightly approval and a-few-years conclusion remain as the source’s claim. French poëtes retains its diaeresis; Herodotus, Hesiod and Homer use conventional English names. Mr. is omitted from M. le comte in idiomatic English Count, without altering the title; no ancient chronology is independently certified.

T22.Addition expands Addit. as a body cue; both paintings, the described-by relation, literal external page/volume and first-person involvement remain. Falconnet retains the literal source spelling, while Polygnotus gives Polignote its English name. Mr. is omitted before Count in the complete page-and-volume parenthesis; Mr. before Diderot remains. Addit., the title, the parenthetic reference and all other body text are roman. No external article or quarrel record is authenticated.

T23.The reported extreme purity, Yet, parenthetic citation, three books and past-perfect publication remain. Glosses freshly translates the roman Greek title Γλῶσσαι; its compact circumflex remains a qualified source reading. The following French explanation is separately translated without treating it as a literal Greek expansion. French retains Ceppendant with double p, emprumptés with m, autheurs with h and singular Rhode; English uses Rhodes. Only the memoir title beginning Recherches and its trailing comma are italic, with the corresponding English title and comma italic; the Greek title and its English counterpart, preceding memoir cue, following by and enclosing parentheses are roman. English supplies commas after the Suidas parenthesis and that is to say. The historical dating and external page/title/author are source claims, not independently verified facts or notebook links. The younger translates le cadet rather than giving a new identity.

T190.In the French source, printed item 18 has italic Liasse 8. within roman parentheses and no date. Ceppendant has double p; Rhode is singular, olympiades lower-case, emprumptés retains m and autheurs retains h. These literal forms are not normalized from an external work. The Greek title Γλῶσσαι is roman; its omega has a compact raised circumflex contour in color, heavily compressed in the native rendering, so the diacritic remains qualified. Only Recherches sur les autheurs dont Parthenius de Nicée a tiré ses narrations, is italic, including the trailing comma; the preceding memoir cue, following par and full enclosing parentheses are roman. The Par-/thenius wrap is complete. Source c’est à dire is unhyphenated and has no following comma. No separate comma follows the Suidas parenthesis.

T25.The collective peoples, present begins/ends and two literary forms remain. Fables is provisional within the broad origin-story context; no particular literary history is supplied.

T191.In the French source, printed item 19 preserves the separate italic Même feuillet. relation and null date. The complete two-line roman sentence has repeated par and one terminal period; no source word is missing.