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(dâr´ z fr j´ s) (KEY) , supposed author of a history of the Trojan War. Dares of Phrygia is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as a priest of Troy. ...
(Titus Livius) (l v´ ) (KEY) , 59 B.C.–A.D. 17, Roman historian, b. Patavium (Padua), probably of noble family. He lived most of his life in Rome. ...
(Publius Herennius Dexippus) (d ks p´ s) (KEY) , fl. 253–276, Greek historian of the Roman period. He commanded Greek troops in an unsuccessful att...
1773–1858, Scottish botanist and botanical explorer. In 1801 he went as a naturalist on one of Matthew Flinders’s expeditions to Australia, return...
(f r´d nänt k n) (KEY) , 1828–98, German botanist. He is considered a founder of the science of bacteriology. From his early studies of microscopi...
( ´b rh lt´´s r) (KEY) , 1868–1936, American historian, b. Chester co., Pa. He studied abroad and then worked on various Philadelphia newspapers....