Andre Dacier

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André Dacier , born the April 6th 1651 with Castrate and dead the September 12th 1722 with Paris, is a Philologue and Traducteur French.

Wire of a lawyer Protesting, he studied with the Academy of Saumur under Tanneguy the Boilerman, and had as a partner of studies the girl of this scientist, Anne; he was not long in getting excited of his school-fellow and in 1683 married it. Both abjured the Protestantisme in which they had been high.

Dacier was put by Montausier at the number of the scientists charged to comment on the old authors for the use of the Dolphin; he obtained then the place of guard of the books of the Cabinet of the King, was accepted in 1695 with the Académie of the inscriptions, and shortly after with the French Academy, of which he became in 1713 the perpetual secretary.

He supported his wife at the time of the alarm clock of the Querelle of Old and Modern the caused by the publication by Houdar of the Mound of a shortened and modified version his translation of Iliade and to which she retorted with her work entitled Of the Causes of the corruption of the taste .

Translations

André Dacier translated and published a very great number of works of Greek and Latin authors, among whom Homère, Plato, Aristote, Xénophon, Sophocle, Hippocrates, Hiérocles of Alexandria, Épictète, Plutarque, Horace, Marc Aurèle, Anastase Sinaïte, Sextus Pompeius Festus and Marcus Verrius Flaccus.

Publications

Poetic of Aristote (1692)
the Life of Pythagore, its symbols, its worms gild and the life of Hiéroclès (1706)

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