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SOTHEBY, WILLIAM (1757-1833)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 435 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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