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    Richard Porson (25 December 1759 – 25 September 1808) was an English classical scholar. He was the discoverer of Porson's Law. The Greek typeface Porson...
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  • not apply to iambic trimeter in Greek comedy. It was formulated by Richard Porson in his critical edition of Euripides' Hecuba in 1802. The law states...
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  • Porson is an influential typeface in the Greek alphabet based on the handwriting of the English classicist Richard Porson. Porson was a classicist with...
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  • founded in honor of classical scholar Richard Porson and was first awarded in 1817. Winners are known as "Porson prizemen". 1817: George James Pennington...
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    one, and remain undivided ... This epistle from Leo was considered by Richard Porson to be the "strongest proof" of verse inauthenticity. In response, Thomas...
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  • and Richard Bentley Porson Kidd, who was rector of Potter Heigham church among other duties in Norwich, Norfolk. The last of these had a son, Richard Hayward...
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  • football captain and all-round athlete) Raymond Paley (mathematician) Richard Porson (classical scholar) Derek Prince (Bible teacher) Arthur Rhys Davids...
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    Timbs, John (1862), Lives of Wits and Humourists: R. Brinsley Sheridan. Richard Porson. Rev. Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook. James and Horace Smith, R. Bentley...
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    and French to ensure that they would circulate widely. At Cambridge, Richard Porson worked on the missing lower right corner of the Greek text. He produced...
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    including scholars such as Richard Dawes, Jeremiah Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Richard Porson, Peter Paul Dobree, Thomas Kidd...
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