BLAYDES, FREDERICK HENRY MARVELL (1818-1908)

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BLAYDES, FREDERICK HENRY MARVELL (1818-1908) , English classical scholar, was born at Hampton Court Green, on the 29th of September 1818, being a collateral descendant of Andrew Marvell, the satirist and friend of Milton. He was educated at St Peter's school,

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Hertford scholar in 1838, took a second class in literae humaniores in 184o, and was subsequently elected to a student-ship at Christ Church. In 1842 he took orders, and from 1843 to 1886 was

vicar

VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

of Harringworth in

Northamptonshire

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

. During a long life he devoted himself almost entirely to the study of the Greek dramatists. His editions and philological papers are remarkable for bold conjectural emendations of corrupt (and other) passages. His distinction was recognized by his being made an honorary LL.D. of Dublin, Ph.D. of the university of Buda Pest and a fellow of the royal society of letters at Athens. He died at Southsea on the 7th of September 1908.
His works include :Aristophanes: Comedies and Fragments, with

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

notes and commentary (188o1893) ; Clouds, Knights, Frogs., Wasps (1873-1878) ; Opera Omnia, with

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

notes (1886);
Sophocle,;

Oedipus

OEDIPUS (OiSiirovs, O16tir63i7s, Wines, from Gr. ot&eiv swell, and gobs foot, i.e. " the swollen-footed ")

Coloneus,

Oedipus

OEDIPUS (OiSiirovs, O16tir63i7s, Wines, from Gr. ot&eiv swell, and gobs foot, i.e. " the swollen-footed ")

Tyrannus and Antigone (in the Bibliotheca Classica, 1859) ; Philoctetes (1870), Trachiniae (1871),

Electra

ELECTRA ('HMKTpa)

(1873), Ajax (1875), Antigone (1905) ; Aeschylus: Agamemnon (1898), Choephori (1899), Eumenides (190o), Adversaria Critica in Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (189o) ; in Tragicorum Graec. Frig. (1894), in Aeschylum (1895), in Varios Poetas Graecos et Latinos (1898), in Aristophanem (1899), in Sophoclem (1899), in Euripidem (1901), in Herodotum (1901); Analecta Comica Graeca (1905) ; Analecta Tragica Graeca (1906).

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