EDWARD

See also:

• MEREDITH, GEORGE (1828-1908)

MEREDITH

See also:

• COPE
• COPE (M.E. cape, cope, from Med. Lat. capa, cappa)
• COPE, EDWARD DRINKER (1840-1897)
• EDWARD MEREDITH COPE (1818-1873)

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

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