title page of burman’s quintilian edition (leiden 1720)
burman published latin editions of phaedrus (1698), horace (1699), valerius flaccus (1702), petronius (1709), menander , philemon (1710), ovid (1713 & 1727), velleius paterculus (1719), quintilian (1720), justin historian (1722), various minor latin poets (1731), suetonius (1736), , lucan (1740) died while editing work of vergil, edition completed nephew.
burman emended thomas ruddiman s edition of george buchanan s latin works, continued graevius s thesauruses of italian , sicilian history, , wrote treatise de vectigalibus populi romani (1694) , brief description of roman antiquities (1711). sylloge of letters written illustrious men (1725–7) contains biographical material on scholars. edited several other volumes of letters well.
the list of works occupies 5 pages in saxe s onomasticon. latin poems , orations republished after death. there account of life in gentleman s magazine april 1742 samuel johnson.
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