Dacier

Dacier, ANDRÉ, a French scholar, born of Protestant parents at Castres, in Upper Languedoc, 6th April 1651, studied at Saumur under Tanneguy Lefèvre; and in 1672 came to Paris, where in 1683 he married Anna (1654–1720), his old preceptor's daughter, and two years later was admitted with her to the Roman Catholic Church. Dacier subsequently became royal librarian, member of the Academy of Inscriptions and of the French Academy, and perpetual secretary of the latter. He died 18th September 1722. His works include a Delphin edition of Festus and Verrius Flaccus (1681), as well as indifferent translations of Horace, the Poetics of Aristotle, some of the Dialogues of Plato, Epictetus, and Plutarch's Lives. His wife's works include Delphin editions of Florus, Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, Dictys Cretensis, and Dares Phrygius; and translations of Anacreon, Sappho, some plays of Plantus and Aristophanes, Terence, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Her admiration of Homer was more unbounded than discriminating, and involved her in many controversies.