Значение слова RUDDIMAN в Литературной энциклопедии

RUDDIMAN

THOMAS (1674-1757).-Grammarian, _b._ in Banffshire, and _ed._ at King's Coll., Aberdeen, obtained a position in the Advocates' Library in Edin., of which in 1730 he became Librarian. In 1714 he _pub._ his _Rudiments of the Latin Tongue_, which was for long the recognised Latin grammar in the schools of Scotland. He was made printer to the Univ. in 1728. R., who was one of the greatest of Scottish Latinists, produced an ed. of the works of George Buchanan, and an ed. of _Livy_ said to be "immaculate." He also reprinted, with notes, Gavin Douglas's version of the _AEneid_.

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