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See also:VILLOISON, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE GASPARD D'ANSSE (or DANNSE) DE (1750-1805), See also:French classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Corbeil-sur-See also:Seine on the 5th of See also:March 1750 (or 1753; authorities differ). He belonged to a See also:noble See also:family (De Ansso) of See also:Spanish origin, and took his surname from a See also:village in the See also:neighbour-See also:hood. In 1773 he published the Homeric See also:Lexicon of See also:Apollonius from a MS. in the See also:abbey of See also:Saint Germain See also:des Pres. In 1778 appeared his edition of See also:Longus's See also:Daphnis and Chloe. In 1781 he went to See also:Venice, where he spent three years in examining the library, his expenses being paid by the French See also:government. His See also:chief See also:discovery was a loth-See also:century MS. of the Iliad, with See also:ancient scholia and marginal notes, indicating supposititious, corrupt or transposed verses. After leaving Venice, he accepted the invitation of the See also:duke of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar to his See also:court. Some of the fruits of his researches in the library of the See also:palace were collected into a See also:volume (Epistolae Vinarienses, 1783), dedicated to his royal hosts. Hoping to find a treasure similar to the Venetian See also:Homer in See also:Greece, he returned to See also:Paris to prepare for a See also:journey to the See also:East. He visited See also:Constantinople, See also:Smyrna, the See also:Greek islands, and See also:Mount See also:Athos, but the results did not come up to his expectation. In 1786 he returned, and in 1788 brought out the Codex Venetus of Homer, which created a sensation in the learned, See also:world. When the revolution See also:broke out, being banished from Paris, he lived in retirement at See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, occupying himself chiefly with the transcription of the notes
in the library of the See also:brothers See also:Valois'(Valesius). On the restoration of See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, having returned to Paris, he accepted the professorship of See also:modern Greek established by the government, and held it until it was transferred to the See also:College de See also:France as the professorship of the ancient and modern Greek See also:languages. He died soon after his See also:appointment, on the 25th of See also:April 18o5. Another See also:work of some importance, Anecdota Graeca (1781), from the Paris and Venice See also:libraries, contains the See also:Ionia (See also:violet See also:garden) of the empress Eudocia, and several fragments of See also:Iamblichus, See also:Porphyry, See also:Procopius of See also:Gaza, Choricius and the Greek grammarians. Materials for an exhaustive work contemplated by him on ancient and modern Greece are preserved in the royal library of Paris.
See J. See also:Dacier, See also:Notice historique sur la See also:vie et See also:les ouvrages de Villoison (1806); Chardon de la Rochette, Melanges de critique et de philologie, iii. (1812) ; and especially the See also:article by his friend and See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil E, See also:Quatremere in Nouvelle biographie generale, xiii., based upon private See also:information.
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