Edited from Porson's notebooks by two of his Cambridge colleagues,
Adversaria was published posthumously in 1812. It includes Porson's
prelection (delivered when he was a candidate for the Regius
Professorship of Greek) and notes and emendations to his monumental
edition of Euripides as well as to editions of other Greek
writings. Among his contributions to nineteenth-century classical
scholarship was the discovery of a rule relating to the position of
words in Greek trimeters which is still known as Porson's law. His
scholarly style, which focused on metre and language rather than
interpretation, set the standard for classical textual criticism at
Cambridge for several decades. One of Porson's legacies was the
design of a Greek typeface based on his handwriting, commissioned
from Richard Austin by Cambridge University Press. 'Porson Greek'
was widely used in British publications for well over a century.
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