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164 History of the Society of Dilettanti
and Thoricus. By the Society of Dilettanti.
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleve-
land-Row, St. James's. Published by Longman,
Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row;
and John Murray, Albemarle-Street. mdcccxvii.'
The book was reported to the Society as ready for
delivery to the members on April 13, 1817. Copies
were presented to H.R.H. the Prince Regent, the
Duke of Somerset, the heirs of the late Mr. Horner,
the Honourable Mr. Trevor (late a member), and
Mr. Drummond (late a member). The copy pre-
sented to Mr. Horner's family bore the inscription,
'Franciscum Horner, integrum, humanum, clarum
Quern fatis asperis abreptum
Senatus populusque Britannus
Maestitia et honore unanimi decoraverunt,
Et Chorus <f>iKoixov<ru>v amissum deflens
Pietate fratris superstitis Leonardi Horner
Hoc desiderio mnemosynon committit.
H. C. Englefield.'
New edition As a collateral result of Gell's expedition, it should
of'imian ^ \yQ stated that with the help of the new material
jinttqutties. trough!- home by him and his colleagues, the first
volume of the Ionian Antiquities, originally published
in 1769, was by-and-by entirely revised and re-edited,
the new edition being issued to the members of
the Society in 18 21. The remainder of the results
relating to Ionia were put in hand for a third part
of the same publication, which did not, however,
see the light until 1840.
Further During the years thus occupied by the labours of
activities-, ^g ]\jew Ionian Committee, the expedition of Sir
volwmeofthe William Gell, and the publication of the 'Unedited
'Specimens? Antiquities of Attica, the Society had been further
busied in a desultory way, under the direction of
Payne Knight, with the preparation of a second
and Thoricus. By the Society of Dilettanti.
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleve-
land-Row, St. James's. Published by Longman,
Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row;
and John Murray, Albemarle-Street. mdcccxvii.'
The book was reported to the Society as ready for
delivery to the members on April 13, 1817. Copies
were presented to H.R.H. the Prince Regent, the
Duke of Somerset, the heirs of the late Mr. Horner,
the Honourable Mr. Trevor (late a member), and
Mr. Drummond (late a member). The copy pre-
sented to Mr. Horner's family bore the inscription,
'Franciscum Horner, integrum, humanum, clarum
Quern fatis asperis abreptum
Senatus populusque Britannus
Maestitia et honore unanimi decoraverunt,
Et Chorus <f>iKoixov<ru>v amissum deflens
Pietate fratris superstitis Leonardi Horner
Hoc desiderio mnemosynon committit.
H. C. Englefield.'
New edition As a collateral result of Gell's expedition, it should
of'imian ^ \yQ stated that with the help of the new material
jinttqutties. trough!- home by him and his colleagues, the first
volume of the Ionian Antiquities, originally published
in 1769, was by-and-by entirely revised and re-edited,
the new edition being issued to the members of
the Society in 18 21. The remainder of the results
relating to Ionia were put in hand for a third part
of the same publication, which did not, however,
see the light until 1840.
Further During the years thus occupied by the labours of
activities-, ^g ]\jew Ionian Committee, the expedition of Sir
volwmeofthe William Gell, and the publication of the 'Unedited
'Specimens? Antiquities of Attica, the Society had been further
busied in a desultory way, under the direction of
Payne Knight, with the preparation of a second