Archaeologia graeca Author:John Potter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: prevented him from proceeding in it, he finished, in the mean time, the two ehort treatises of Plutarch and Basil, to serve as a kind of introduction to the stud... more »y of Lycophron, as well as of the other Greek poets. This work, he informs us in the preface,, was undertaken by the advice of Arthur Charlett, D. D. master of University College, a great friend and patron of learning. The following year he was chosen Fellow of Lincoln College, and, proceeding Master of Arts, took pupils, and went into orders. After the publication of Plutarch and Basil, he resumed the work which he had formerly begun, and, in 1697,completed a very beautiful edition of Lycophron's Alexandra, in folio. He had intended to publish Ni- cander's Theriaca and Akxipharmica, along with it, but was prevented from executing this plan by his numerous avocations. He has illustrated Lycopkron by copious extracts from the Greek scholiast; and, besides his own annotations, has added those of his predecessors, Canterus and Meursius. This work was reprinted in 1702, dedicated to Graevius, at whose suggestion it was undertaken, and is reckoned the best edition of this obscure Greek poet. It has been the fate of Lycophron to be edited by a series of young critics. Canterus published his edition, at the age of twenty four (Basil, 1566, 4to.) ; Meursius, at the age of eighteen (Lugd. Bat. 1597, 8vo.); and Potter, at the age of twenty three. In the present century, the Rev. Henry Meen, B. D. a critic of mature learning and judgment, has distinguished himself by " Remarks on the Cassandra of Lycophron," 1802, 8vo., interspersed with specimens of translation, exhibiting ample proofs of his qualifications for executing a complete version of " the tene chapter{Section 4DR JOHN POTTER. tii brous poet," with notes and ill...« less