Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo, graece, ad editionem Dukeri expressi

Franz Karl Alter (1749-1804), Jesuit and classical philologist. Alter entered the Jesuit order in 1766 and, following its suppression, served as Professor of Greek and later as curator of the University Library in Wien. His scholarly work reflected expertise in Greek, Oriental, and Slavic languages. He published notable critical editions, including the Chronicon of Georgios Phrantzes, the Greek New Testament, and revised Latin translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. DB

Karl Andreas Duker (1670-1752), classical philologist and jurist. Duker studied law and classical philology in Harderwijk and Franeker, earning a doctorate in Law. He taught History and Rhetoric in Herborn, The Hague, and later became Professor in Utrecht. His legal scholarship includes studies on Roman legal Latin and an edition of Justinian's Institutiones. As a philologist, he published critical editions and commentaries on authors such as Thucydides, Livy, Florus, and Aristophanes. DB

Joseph Wasse (1672-1738), classical philologist and clergyman. Educated at Cambridge, Wasse assisted Ludolph Küster in his edition of Suidas (1705), and in 1710 published a critical edition of Sallust. ODNB