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EDWARD MEREDITH COPE (1818-1873)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 95 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:MEREDITH See also:COPE (1818-1873)  , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Birmingham on the 28th of See also:July 1818 . He was educated at See also:Ludlow and See also:Shrewsbury See also:schools and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of which society he was elected See also:fellow in 1842, having taken his degree in 1841 as See also:senior classic . He was for many years lecturer at Trinity, his favourite subjects being the See also:Greek tragedians, See also:Plato and See also:Aristotle . When the See also:professor-See also:ship of Greek became vacant, the votes were equally divided between See also:Cope and B . H . See also:Kennedy, and the latter was appointed by the See also:chancellor . It is said that the keenness of Cope's disappointment was partly responsible for the See also:mental affliction by which he was attacked in 1869, and from which he never recovered . He died on the 5th of See also:August 1873 . As his published See also:works show, Cope was a thoroughly See also:sound scholar, with perhaps a tendency to over-minuteness . He was the author of An Introduction to Aristotle's See also:Rhetoric (1867), a See also:standard See also:work; The Rhetoric of Aristotle, with a commentary, revised and edited by J . E . See also:Sandys (1877); See also:translations of Plato's See also:Gorgias (2nd ed., 1884) and See also:Phaedo (revised by H .

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Jackson, 1875) . Mention may also be made ,of his See also:criticism of See also:Grote's See also:account of the See also:Sophists, in the Cambridge See also:Journal of Classical See also:Philology, vols. i., (1854–1857) . The See also:chief authority for the facts of Cope's See also:life is the memoir pre-fixed to vol. i. of his edition of The Rhetoric of Aristotle .

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