See also:DAVIES (DAvIslus), See also:JOHN (1679-1732)
, See also:English classical See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born in See also:London on the 22nd of See also:April 1679
.
He was educated at See also:Charterhouse and Queens' See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of which society he was elected See also:fellow (See also:July 7th, 1701)
.
He subsequently became See also:rector of Fen See also:Ditton, See also:prebendary of See also:Ely, and See also:president of his college
.
He died on the 7th of See also:March 1731—1732, and was buried in the college See also:chapel
.
See also:Davies was considered one of the best commentators on See also:Cicero, his See also:attention being chiefly devoted to the philosophical See also:works of that author
.
Amongst these he edited the Tusculanae disputationes (1709), De natura deorum (1718), De divinatione and De fato (1725), Academica (1725), De legibus (1727), De finibus (1728)
.
His nearly finished notes on the De officiis he bequeathed to Dr See also:Richard See also:Mead, with a view to their publication
.
Mead, finding himself unable to carry out the undertaking, transferred the notes to See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Bentley (See also:nephew of the famous Richard Bentley), by whose carelessness they were burnt
.
Davies's See also:editions, which were intended to supplement those of See also:Graevius, show See also:great learning and an extensive knowledge of the See also:history and systems of See also:philosophy, but he allows himself too much See also:licence in the See also:matter of emendation
.
He also edited See also:Maximus of See also:Tyre's Dissertationes (1703); the works of See also:Caesar (1706); the Octavius of Minucius See also:Felix (17o7); the See also:Epitome divinarum institutionum of Lactantius (1718)
.
Although on intimate terms with Richard Bentley, he found himself unable to agree with the great scholar in regard to his dispute with Trinity College
.
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