ARNOLD

See also:

• ARNOLD DRAKENBORCH (1684-1748)

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