LATE GREEK PROFESSOR in the University of A NEW EDITION, carefully revised and corrected. Nulla Sophocleo veniet jactura cothurno. E Gemma in Museo Florentino. LONDON: Printed for T. DAVIES, in RUSSEL-STREET, TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE of WALES. May it please your ROYAL HIGHNESS. A NTIENT tragedy in it's pure and perfect state was made fubfervient only to the nobleft purposes, and facred to truth, religion and virtue. This species of the drama attain'd to it's highest degree of perfection in the time, and under the direction of the immortal Sophocles, the acknowledged prince of tragic poets, the admiration of all Greece, the envy of his cotemporaries, and in a word, the Shakespear of antiquity. SUCH is the work, and fuch the author, which I have the honour to present to your ROYAL HIGHNESS. That a writer fo univerfally applauded, thould never yet have been |