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MUNRO, HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE (1819-1885)

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MUNRO, See also:HUGH See also:ANDREW See also:JOHNSTONE (1819-1885) , See also:British See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Elgin on the 19th of See also:October 1818. 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. 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. 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. 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). 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. 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. W. See also:King. His knowledge and See also:taste are nowhere better shown than in his Criticisms and Elucidations of Catuilus (1878). He was a See also:master of the See also:art of See also:Greek and Latin See also:verse See also:composition. His contributions to the famous See also:volume of Shrewsbury verse, Sabrinae corolla, are among the most remarkable of a remarkable collection.

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Translations into Latin and Greek Verse were privately printed in 1884. 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. He died at See also:Rome on the 3oth of See also:March 1885. See Memoir by J. D. See also:Duff, prefixed to a re-issue of the trans. of Lucretius in " See also:Bohn's Classical Library " (19o8).

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