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He also attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor from the University of Cambridge in 1907.
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Excerpt from Lycurgus: The Speech Against Leocrates The Leocrates of Lycurgus has remained, in England, in comparative obscurity, not having attracted an editor since John Taylor edited it at Cambridge, along with the Midias of Demosthenes, in 1743. Yet the speech is by no means without its merits. It forms, in many ways, an excellent introduction to Attic oratory for younger students. It is easier than Demosthenes, and there is no complex political situation to expound: the issue is simple and direct. And it has a greater variety of interest than either Demosthenes or Lysias. Its very fault of diffuseness, from the purely forensic standpoint, becomes, from an educative point of view, its great virtue. Lycurgus excursions into ancient history, legend, and the poets, provide, in Livy's phrase, so many deverticula amoena where the student finds refreshment with instruction. The text of the present edition will be found to adhere, in the main, to that of Blass, whose critical commentary I have supplemented with those of Scheibe, Rehdantz and Thalheim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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lecturer professor of Classics
He also attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor from the University of Cambridge in 1907.
He was appointed lecturer in Greek at Aberdeen in 1908, but in 1910 moved to South Africa to take up the position of Professor of Classics at the recently formed Natal University College, where he stayed until his retirement in 1946. He was made Professor Emeritus in 1948, and in 1950 the University of Natal awarded him the degree of Doctorate.Litt (honoris causa). After his retirement he continued occasional teaching at the University of Natal, as well as at Rhodes University and the University of the Witwatersrand.
J. H. Hofmeyr and Professors C. South. Edgar, West. Rollo, West. Ritchie and T. J. Haarhoff.
He was later elected joint Honorary President of the Classical Association of South Africa, along with T. J. Haarhoff in 1956. The Petrie Prize was established and awarded to the best third-year student in Classics, Latin, or Greek, on both the Durban and Pietermaritzburg campuses of the university.
A portrait of Petrie by Rosa Hope was hung in the council chamber of the university on the Pietermaritzburg campus, it was later removed, as Petrie had not been a Chancellor of the University, and was hung in the lecture theatre nearest the Classics department on the Pietermaritzburg campus. lieutenant was later moved to the Whiteley Library in the Classics department on the Howard College campus of the University.
A student residence at the University of Natal (later the University of KwaZulu-Natal) was named after him.
Edgar Brookes dedicated his book A History of the University of Natal (1967) to Petrie.
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He was a founding member of the Classical Association of South Africa in 1927, along with the Honorary