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HUBERT ASHTON HOLDEN (1822-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 582 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUBERT See also:ASHTON See also:HOLDEN (1822-1896)  , See also:English classical See also:scholar, came of an old See also:Staffordshire See also:family . He was educated at See also:King See also:Edward's school, See also:Birmingham, and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge (See also:senior classic, 1845; See also:fellow, 1847) . He was See also:vice-See also:principal of See also:Cheltenham College (1853-1858), and headmaster of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's school, See also:Ipswich (1858-1883) . He died in See also:London on the 1st of See also:December 1896 . In addition to several school See also:editions of portions of See also:Cicero, See also:Thucydides, See also:Xenophon and See also:Plutarch, he published an expurgated See also:text of See also:Aristophanes with a useful onomasticon (re-issued separately, 1902) and larger editions of Cicero's De officiis (revised ed., 1898) and of the Octavius of Minucius See also:Felix (1853) . His See also:chief See also:works, however, were his Foliorum silvula (1852), a collection of English extracts for See also:translation into See also:Greek and Latin See also:verse; Folia silvulae (See also:translations of the same); and Foliorum centuriae, a See also:companion See also:volume of extracts for Latin See also:prose translation . In English See also:schools these books have been widely used for the teaching of Latin and Greek See also:composition .

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