PETER

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• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

PAUL

See also:

• PETER PAUL DOBREE (1782-1825)

DOBREE (1782-1825)  , English classical scholar and critic, was born in Guernsey . He was educated at Reading school under Richard Valpy and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow . He was appointed regius professor of Greek in 1823, and died in Cambridge on the 24th of September 1825 . He was an intimate friend of Porson, whom he took as his model in textual criticism, although he showed less caution in conjectural emendation . After Porson's death • (18o8) Dobree was commissioned with Monk and Blomfield to edit his literary remains, which had been bequeathed to Trinity College . Illness and a subsequent journey to Spain delayed the work until 18.20, when Dobree brought out the Plutus of Aristophanes (with his own and Porson's notes) and all Porson's Aristophanica . Two years later he published the Lexicon of Photius from Porson's transcript of the Gale MS. in Trinity College library, to which he appended -a Lexicon rhetoricum from the margin of a Cambridge MS. of Harpocration . JamesScholefield, his successor in the Greek professorship, brought out selections from his notes (Adversaria, 1831-1883) on Greek and Latin authors (especially the orators), and a reprint of the Lexicon rhetoricum, together with notes on inscriptions (1834-1835) . The latest edition of the Adversaria is by William Wagner (in Bohn'sCollegiate Series, 1883) . An appreciative estimate of Dobree as a scholar will be found in J . Bake's Scholica hypomnemata, ii . (1839) and in the Philological Museum, i .

(1832) by J . C .

Hare .