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See also:HUGH See also:ANDREW See also:JOHNSTONE See also:MUNRO (1819-1885)
, See also:British See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Elgin on the 19th of See also:October 1818
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He was educated at See also:Shrewsbury school, where he was one of See also:Kennedy's first pupils, and proceeded to Trinity See also:College, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, in 1838
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He became scholar of his college in 184o, second classic and first See also:chancellor's medaliist in 1842, and See also:fellow of his college in 1843
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He became classical lecturer at Trinity College, and in 1869 was elected to the newly-founded See also:chair of Latin at See also:Cambridge, but resigned it in 1872
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The See also:great See also:work on which his reputation is mainly based is his edition of See also:Lucretius, the See also:fruit of the labour of many years (See also:text only, x vol., 186o; text, commentary and See also:translation, 2 vols., 1864)
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As a textual critic his knowledge was profound and his See also:judgment unrivalled; and he made See also:close archaeological studies by frequent travels in See also:Italy and See also:Greece
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In 1867 he published an improved text of Aetna with commentary, and in the following See also:year a text of See also:Horace with See also:critical introduction, illustrated by specimens of See also:ancient gems selected by C
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His See also:Translations into Latin and Greek Verse were privately printed in 1884
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Like his translations into See also:English, they are characterized by See also:minute fidelity to the See also:original, but never cease to be idiomatic
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He died at See also:Rome on the 3oth of See also: |
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