" But it was then the unpopular side: the publisher is said to have lost money by the book ; and one of his early friends, Mrs Turner of Norwich, cut down a legacy she had left Porson to £ 30 on being told that he had written what was described to her as a book against Christianity.

East Ruston is distinguished as the birthplace of that eminent Greek scholar, Richard Porson, M. A., who was born here in 1759, and was first initiated in letters by his father, then clerk of the parish.

He was an intimate friend of Richard Porson, whom he took as his model in textual criticism, although he showed less caution in conjectural emendation.

He was the discoverer of Porson's Law ; and the Greek typeface Porson was based on his handwriting.

Porson did not care for Eton, but he was popular there ; and two dramas he wrote for performance in the Long Chamber were remembered.

The Cambridge press was proposing a new edition of Thomas Stanley's Aeschylus, and the editorship was offered to Porson ; but he declined to reprint Stanley's corrupt text and incorporate the variorum notes.

He was especially anxious that the Medicean manuscript at Florence should be collated for the new edition, and offered to undertake the collation ; but the syndics refused the offer, the vice-chancellor John Torkington, master of Clare Hall, observing that Porson might collect his manuscripts at home.

In 1792 his fellowship was no longer tenable by a layman ; and Porson decided not to take holy orders.

Among those whose friendship Hansard won in the exercise of his profession were Robert Orme, Burke and Dr Johnson ; while Porson praised him as the most accurate printer of Greek.

* December 25 – Richard Porson, classical scholar ( died 1808 )

His friends Porson and EH Barker passed many months in his company.

Porson lived six years after the second edition of the Hecuba was published, but he put off the work.

With his help Porson entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a pensioner on 28 March 1778, matriculating in April.

* Brink, C. O. Lutterworth. com, English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman, James Clarke & Co ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-227-17299-5.

http :// www. lutterworth. com / jamesclarke / jc / titles / engclass. htm, English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman, James Clarke & Co ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-227-17299-5.

* Brink, C. O., English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman, James Clarke & Co ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-227-17299-5.

At Cambridge, Richard Porson worked on the missing lower right corner of the Greek text.

Talbot was educated at Rottingdean, Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Porson prize in Classics in 1820, and graduated as twelfth wrangler in 1821.

Bentley was credited with creating the English school of Hellenists, by which the 18th century was distinguished, including scholars such as R Dawes, J Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup, T Tyrwhitt, Richard Porson, Peter Paul Dobree, Thomas Kidd and James Henry Monk.

He was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1809 was elected Regius Professor of Greek in succession to Porson.

He was the father of John Tyrwhitt Davy Kidd who served in India for many years and Richard Bentley Porson Kidd, who was rector of Potter Heigham church among other duties in Norwich, Norfolk.

Kidd was an intimate friend of Richard Porson and Charles Burney the younger.

Richard Porson ( 25 December 1759 – 25 September 1808 ) was an English classical scholar.

His literary skill was partly due to the efforts of Summers, who long afterwards stated that during fifty years of scholastic life he had never come across boys so clever as Porson and his two brothers.

When Porson was eleven, the curate of East Ruston took charge of his education.

Porson graduated MA in 1785.

In 1786, a new edition of Thomas Hutchinson's Anabasis of Xenophon was called for, and Porson was asked by the publisher to supply notes, which he did in conjunction with Walter Whiter.

She tilted up and drank, and then I drank.

Following this, a beaker is drank for the king, and then a toast is given for departed kin.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

People seeking healing poured water over these cippi, an act that was believed to imbue the water with the healing power contained in the text, and then drank the water in hope of curing their ailments.

After their choice the souls drank of Lethe and then shot away like stars to their birth.

She then removed one of her priceless pearl earrings, dropped it into the vinegar, allowed it to dissolve, and drank the mixture.

The thirsty travelers drank the cool water and then celebrated with a Thanksgiving Mass and enjoyed a feast of fish, fowl and deer on April 30, 1598.

In the 1976 comedy series Big John, Little John, a middle-aged man drank from the Fountain of Youth and then switch back and forth from 12-years-old to 43-years-old throughout the series.

Both drank arsenic and the wife then hanged herself while Haushofer was obviously too weak to do so too.

He said that he generally drank around six pints of lager before a match and then one pint for each frame.

All the Christians that drank from the river would then die.

From then on, he drank heavily and became " careless in his dress.

Chhinnamasta drank the demons ' share of the elixir and then beheaded herself to prevent them from acquiring it.

However, even then, church president Joseph F. Smith encouraged stake presidents to be liberal with old men who used tobacco and old ladies who drank tea.

He then drank mineral oil and continued to drink water while swallowing the metal bits.

On 11 November, she took an MDMA (" ecstasy ") tablet, and then drank approximately 7 litres of water in a 90 minute period.

In one stunt, the horse drank a large bucket of water, then urinated on Bankes's command.

When they reached Bubastis, then held they a wondrously solemn feast: and more wine of the grape was drank in those days than in all the rest of the year.

Although clearly disappointed by the poor turnout, Price welcomed the three men and then, stepping to one side, drank the flask of laurel water he had prepared.

The general of Tomyris's army, who was also her son Spargapises, and a third of the Massagetian troops killed the group Cyrus had left there and, finding the camp well stocked with food and the wine, unwittingly drank themselves into inebriation, diminishing their capability to defend themselves, when they were then overtaken by a surprise attack.

According to Samuel Pepys, Sedley ` showed his nakedness-acting all the postures of lust and buggery that could he imagined, and abusing of scripture ... preaching a Mountebank sermon from that pulpit ... that being done, he took a glass of wine and washed his prick in it and then drank it off ; and then took another and drank the King's health '.