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JAMES DUPORT (1606-1679)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 689 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:DUPORT (1606-1679)  , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Cambridge . His See also:father, See also:John See also:Duport, who was descended from an old See also:Norman See also:family (the Du Ports of See also:Caen, who settled in See also:Leicestershire during the reign of See also:Henry IV.), was See also:master of Jesus See also:College . The son was educated at See also:Westminster and at Trinity College, where he became See also:fellow and subsequently vicemaster . In 1639 he was appointed regius See also:professor of See also:Greek, in 1664 See also:dean of See also:Peterborough, and in 1668 master of Magdalene College . He died at Peterborough on the 17th of See also:July 1679 . Throughout the troublous times of the See also:Civil See also:War, in spite of the loss of his clerical offices and eventually of his professorship, Duport quietly continued his lectures . He is best known by his Homeri gnomologia (166o), a collection of all the aphorisms, See also:maxims and remarkable opinions in the Iliad and-Odyssey, illustrated by quotations from the See also:Bible and classical literature . His other published See also:works chiefly consist of See also:translations (from the Bible and See also:Prayer See also:Book into Greek) and See also:short See also:original poems, collected under the See also:title of Horae subsecivae or Stromata . They include congratulatory odes (inscribed to the See also:king); funeral odes; carmina comitialia (tripos verses on different theses maintained in the See also:schools, remarkable for their philosophical and metaphysical knowledge); sacred epigrams; and three books of See also:miscellaneous poems (Sylvae) . The See also:character of Duport's See also:work is not such as to See also:appeal to See also:modern scholars, but he deserves the See also:credit of having done much to keep alive the study of classical literature in his See also:day . The See also:chief authority for the See also:life of Duport is J . H .

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Monk's " Memoir " (1825) ; see also See also:Sandys, Hist . Class . Schol . (1908), ii . 349 .

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