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See also:ARNOLD See also:DRAKENBORCH (1684-1748) , Dutch classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Utrecht on the 1st of See also:January 1684 . Having studied See also:philology under See also:Graevius and See also:Burmann the See also:elder, and See also:law under See also:Cornelius See also:Van See also:Eck, in 1716 he succeeded Burmann in his professorship (conjointly with C . A . See also:Duker), which he continued to hold till his See also:death on the 16th of January 1748 . Although he obtained the degree of See also:doctor of See also:laws, and was intended for the legal profession, he determined to devote himself to philological studies . His edition of See also:Livy (1738-1746, and subsequent See also:editions) is the See also:work on which his fame chiefly rests . The See also:preface gives a particular See also:account of all the See also:literary men who have at different periods commented on the See also:works of Livy . The edition itself is based on that of See also:Gronovius; but See also:Drakenborch made many important alterations on the authority of See also:manuscripts which it is probable Gronovius had never seen . He also published Dissertatio de praefectis urbi (1704; reprinted at See also:Frankfort in 1752 with a See also:life of Drakenborch); Dissertatio de officio praefectorum praetorio (1707); and an edition of Silius Italicus (1717) . |
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