a market-town of Lower Hungary, in the province of Thither Danube, and county of Stuhlweissenburg. It contains a strong castle, large cavalry barracks, two churches, a monastery, a town-hall, and many well-built houses. There are several brandy distilleries here, and a considerable trade in corn, horses, and cattle. Pop. about 7000.

JAMES, an eminent Greek scholar, was born at Glasgow on the 22d of June 1712. His father, James Moor, was a teacher of mathematics in that city, and was distinguished for great devotion to scientific and literary pursuits. Young Moor entered the university of his native city in November 1725, and soon attained to great proficiency in classical literature and mathematical science. In Greek he enjoyed the instructions of Alexander Dunlop, who combined with a thorough knowledge of the language a remarkable power of inspiring his students with a love for the study. The celebrated professor of mathematics, Dr Robert Simson, alludes repeatedly throughout his writings to the eminent talents of Moor for mathematical pursuits. After completing his academical course, he opened a school for classics and mathematics, but not succeeding in this undertaking, he speedily relinquished it. He now became a private tutor, and was connected successively in that capacity with the families of the Earl of Kilmarnock and the Earl of Selkirk. On the 11th November 1742 he was appointed librarian to the university of Glasgow; and during the same year, in conjunction with Dr Hutcheson, published an anonymous translation of The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. On the resignation of the Greek chair by Dunlop in 1746, Moor was unanimously elected to the vacant professorship. He still continued to combine the study of classical literature with the study of the mathematical sciences; and during his residence in Paris in 1748, he received assistance from the eminent Greek scholar Capperomnieri in researches on which he was then engaged connected with an edition of the Greek text of Pappus. This undertaking, which was never completed, was superseded by the more magnificent one of a complete and splendid edition of the works of Plato. This project originated with the Messrs Foulis of Glasgow, who, after being at great labour and expense in collecting materials for the undertaking, were compelled to relinquish a scheme which Dr Moor, the editor, and many other distinguished scholars throughout the kingdom, had very much at heart. The entire collection for this edition of Plato is now in the possession of the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The earliest fragment of Moor's Grammar of the Greek Language appeared in 1755; and after an interval of fifteen years, the work appeared with its final improvements, under the title of Elementa Linguae Graecae; novis plerumque Regulis tradita, brevitate sua memoriae facilibus, &c., Glasgow, 1770, Svo. A short time after the first appearance of his Grammar, he published (1759) a small volume of Essays on the influence of philosophy upon the fine arts, on the composition of the picture described in the Dialogue of Cebes, and on historical composition. His next work was his Spartan Lessons, or the Praise of Valour in the Verses of Tyrtæus, &c., which appeared anonymously in 1759. In 1763 he published an essay on that passage of Aristotle's Poetics, in which we are told that tragedy purifies the passions by means of pity and terror. Moor did not seem to understand how this was possible, and he accordingly questioned the ordinary interpretation of the author's language. His endeavour, however, to discover a new translation of the passage, was more ingenious than successful. The next production of his pen was an acute tract On the Prepositions of the Greek Language, an Introductory Essay, Glasgow, 1766. It was characterized by great ingenuity; but the soundness of his theory of the Greek prepositions has been called in question by several distinguished scholars. During the same year he published his Vindication of Virgil from the charge of a puerility imputed to him by Dr Pearce, in his Notes on Longinus. In addition to his original works, Moor is known to have assisted in editing various editions of those Greek classics which issued from the press of the Messrs Foulis. He edited the Arenarius of Archimedes; the works of Herodotus, 9 vols., 1761; the works of Thucydides, 8 vols., 1759; and, conjointly with Muirhead, the professor of humanity in Glasgow, edited the splendid copy of Homer, in 4 vols., which issued from the university press in 1756-68. As a relaxation of his severer studies, the professor is said to have indulged occasionally in the composition of English and even of Scotch verses. Some of these poetical effusions appeared in various publications of the time; but he does not seem to have been endowed with much genius for song. In 1761 he was appointed vice-rector of his university; and the senatus conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1763. His health had been giving way for some time, and he was constrained to resign his professorship in 1774. He was allowed to retain his house and salary, but his domestic affairs got into disorder, and he was relieved from the annoyances of pecuniary embarrassments only by death on the 17th September 1779.