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BESNIER, of Caen, has worked especially in geography, 

 topography, and epigraphy ("La geographic economique 

 du Maroc dans I'antiquite," 1906; "L'lle tiberine dans 

 rantiquite," 1902; "Lexique de geographic ancienne," 

 1914; "Recueil des inscriptions antiques du Maroc," 

 1904. See also under Cagnat). 



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France in the early ages of the revival of Greek studies 

 was the home of many noted scholars, such as Robertus 

 STEPHANUS, Henricus STEPHANUS (Robert and Henri 

 Estienne), TURNEBE, LAMBIN, MURET, MONTFAUCON, 

 CASAUBON, and the two SCALIGERS. All of these men 

 in modern esteem hold positions of unquestioned leader- 

 ship, and much of their work has not been superseded or 

 improved. 



This heritage has passed to worthy heirs, and during 

 the last century France has had many eminent Greek 

 scholars. BOISSONADE was editor of many previously 

 unpublished Greek writers; among his productions were 

 twenty-four volumes in an annotated series of the Greek 

 poets, five volumes of Anecdota Graeca; he is especially 

 famous as being the first editor of the poet Babrius. 

 BURNOUT was editor of a most valuable Greek Grammar; 

 PATIN, author of a series of sympathetic and learned 

 comments on the Greek Tragic poets; ALEXANDRE, 

 editor of the Sibylline Oracles; LITTRE, famous both as a 

 physician and a scholar, editor and translator of Hip- 

 pocrates in ten volumes; MILLER, one of the most expert 

 of palaeographers, and the editor of many works which 

 had not been previously published; MARTIN, author of 

 important works in Music, Astronomy, Geometry, and 



1 [Drafting Committee: J. A. SCOTT, Northwestern University. 

 ED.] 



