Floyer Sydenham (1710 – April 1, 1787) was an English scholar of Ancient Greek. Jump to: navigation, search // Events April 10 - The worlds first copyright legislation became effective, Britains Statute of Anne Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) Births January 3 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. ... Jump to: navigation, search April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search The English people are an indigenous European ethnic group originating in the lowlands of Great Britain and today represent a fairly homogenous composite population descended from a combination of Anglo-Saxons and Celts with minor influences from Scandinavians, Jutes, and Normans. ... Ancient Greek refers to the stage in the history of the Greek language corresponding to Classical Antiquity, which normally applies on two ancient periods of Greek history: Archaic and Classic Greece. ...

He was a Fellow and sometime Moderator of Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford, and later Rector of Esher. He translated some of the Dialogues of Plato into English, and wrote a dissertation on Heraclitus, which failed of being appreciated. Involved in embarrassment, he was thrown into prison because he could not pay a small bill for provisions, and there died. His sad fate led directly to the foundation of the Royal Literary Fund. A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. ... Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings. ... This article is about the town. ... Heraclitus of Ephesus (Greek Herakleitos) (about 535 - 475 BC), known as The Obscure, was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Ephesus in Asia Minor. ...

The translator Thomas Taylor wrote a widely-published panegyric to Sydenham, and completed his work on the Dialogues. Thomas Taylor (1758 - 1835) was an English translator, born in London. ... A Panegyric is a formal public speech delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally high studied and undiscriminating eulogy. ...

External links

• Brief biography at uslegacies.org
• Royal Literary Fund

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