Canon T.S.Evans

Latin Learning Latin
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Canon T.S.Evans seems to have written much Latin verse, much of it by translating from English. He was active around 1900 AD. Can a copy of his works be found anywhere?

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Durham University has this collection, but it’s not in digital form:
Collection Level Description: T.S. Evans Papers

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Digital/pdf of Thomas Saunders Evans’ Latin and Greek Verse:

https://archive.org/details/latingreekverse00evanuoft

Library/hard copy:

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3Alatin+and+greek+verse+au%3Aevans&qt=advanced&dblist=638

NB: Saunders, by all accounts, not ‘Sanders’, as Durham has it.

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Thanks. T.S.Evans’s work is in good facsimile PDF format at

https://archive.org/download/latingreekverse00evanuoft/latingreekverse00evanuoft.pdf

(14,337 kilobytes).

The “full text” version (378.1 kilobytes) at
https://archive.org/stream/latingreekverse00evanuoft/latingreekverse00evanuoft_djvu.txt

is not as good :: an OCR (optical character recognition) set up for the Roman alphabet, had turned Greek text into this sort of garbage:-

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, 69 8e 7ro\v7r\oica o-Treipafiara
<TTvyvrj \e\evra, 7r\Krdvat,<; fipvov repa?,
Spdicaiva Sijjfjia bvaddvarov cDTrXicr/JLevrj’
VTT 6fjL(j)a\ov & TrepiSpofjLOL KVK\q> icvves
a$ov /3p6/J,ov ycywvov 'iecrav \dj3pot,
/ecu Kepftepeiov evpv ^daKOvo-ai crro/ia

Its preface says that it does not quote all of Evans’s Latin and Greek output. Including that, it says that it omits many of the best and most popular items because “they are already well known” :: but that was way back around 1893 AD.


[quote="LateStarter"]
Digital/pdf of Thomas Saunders Evans' _Latin and Greek Verse_:

https://archive.org/details/latingreekverse00evanuoft

Library/hard copy:

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3Alatin+and+greek+verse+au%3Aevans&qt=advanced&dblist=638

NB: Saunders, by all accounts, **not** 'Sanders', as Durham has it.
[/quote]
5

Ah, memories of when skill in Latin and Greek was widespread, before the sciences and then computer studies grew big and took over so much of the timetable.

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I am sorry to reply to this message after so long, but have any of you heard of a modern reprint in ink on paper of this bookl?