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Thucydides, Book VI. From the text of Bekker, with notes chiefly grammatical and explanatory

Typology: Commentary | Language: English | Place of publication: Cambridge, UK | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Year: 1854

Greek Text: yes

Content: Book 6

Percival Frost (1817-1898), mathematician. Frost became a fellow of St John's College and was later associated with Jesus College and King's College, Cambridge, as a mathematics lecturer. He edited Newton's Principia (1854) and co-authored A Treatise on Solid Geometry (1863), both widely used as textbooks. His research covered algebra, geometry, electricity, magnetism, and solar system theory. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1883, he also held a fellowship at King's College from that year. ODBN

Text from Bekker's edition. In 1867, Frost reissued the volume, adding the text and commentary on Book 7 – see Frost 1867.

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The Sicilian expedition, being books VI and VII of Thucydides, with notes, by the rev. Percival Frost. A new edition, revised and enlarged

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