HUGH

See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

ANDREW

See also:

• JOHNSTONE

JOHNSTONE

See also:

• HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE MUNRO (1819-1885)
• MUNRO, MUNRO
• MUNRO, SIR HECTOR (1726-1805)
• MUNRO, SIR THOMAS (1761-1827)

MUNRO (1819-1885)  , British scholar, was born at Elgin on the 19th of October 1818 . He was educated at Shrewsbury school, where he was one of Kennedy's first pupils, and proceeded to Trinity College, Cam-bridge, in 1838 . He became scholar of his college in 184o, second classic and first chancellor's medaliist in 1842, and fellow of his college in 1843 . He became classical lecturer at Trinity College, and in 1869 was elected to the newly-founded chair of Latin at Cambridge, but resigned it in 1872 . The great work on which his reputation is mainly based is his edition of Lucretius, the fruit of the labour of many years (text only, x vol., 186o; text, commentary and translation, 2 vols., 1864) . As a textual critic his knowledge was profound and his judgment unrivalled; and he made close archaeological studies by frequent travels in Italy and Greece . In 1867 he published an improved text of Aetna with commentary, and in the following year a text of Horace with critical introduction, illustrated by specimens of ancient gems selected by C . W . King . His knowledge and taste are nowhere better shown than in his Criticisms and Elucidations of Catuilus (1878) . He was a master of the art of Greek and Latin verse composition . His contributions to the famous volume of Shrewsbury verse, Sabrinae corolla, are among the most remarkable of a remarkable collection .

His

Translations into Latin and Greek Verse were privately printed in 1884 . Like his translations into English, they are characterized by minute fidelity to the original, but never cease to be idiomatic . He died at Rome on the 3oth of March 1885 . See Memoir by J . D . Duff, prefixed to a re-issue of the trans. of Lucretius in " Bohn's Classical Library " (19o8) .