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WILLIAM SOTHEBY (1757-1833)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:SOTHEBY (1757-1833)  , See also:English author, was See also:born in See also:London on the 9th of See also:November 1757 . He was educated at See also:Harrow, and subsequently procured a See also:commission in a See also:cavalry See also:regiment . In 1780 he retired from the See also:army on his See also:marriage and devoted himself to literature, becoming a prominent figure in London See also:literary society . His ample means enabled him to See also:play the See also:part of See also:patron to many struggling authors, and his See also:friends included See also:Scott, See also:Byron, See also:Wordsworth, See also:Coleridge, See also:Southey, See also:Hallam and Tom See also:Moore . He himself soon acquired a consider-able reputation as a translator, his See also:verse See also:translation of See also:Virgil's ' The word is also used of the dancers in indecent ballets, to which such poems were probably written as an See also:accompaniment . In See also:Greek and Latin authors KivaiSos (cinaedus) generally means catamite."Georgics (r800) being specially praised by contemporary critics, while in later See also:life he published See also:translations of the Iliad and Odyssey . He also wrote several See also:historical tragedies for the See also:stage, of which one was acted, and some poems . He died on the 3oth of See also:December 1833 .

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