René Binet (1731 – 1812) was a French professor and translator. He was born near

Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; pcd, Bieuvais) is a city and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, north of Paris. The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populous ...

and became professor of

rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

at the

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, rector of the

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in 1791, then ''proviseur'' (director) of the

lycée Bonaparte Lycée Bonaparte is a French international school in Doha, Qatar. It includes levels ''maternelle'' (preschool) through '' lycée'' (senior high school). The École Française de Doha was established in a rented villa in Slata Al Jadida in the 19 ...

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Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...

: ''Œuvres'' (1783) *

Valerius Maximus Valerius Maximus () was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: ''Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX'' ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as ''De factis dictisque memorabilibus'' ...

: ''Œuvres'' (2 volumes, 1795) *

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: t ...

: ''Œuvres'' (4 volumes, 1803–1804) ;From the German *

Christoph Meiners Christoph Meiners (31 July 1747 – 1 May 1810) was a German racialist, philosopher, historian, and writer born in Warstade. He supported the polygenist theory of human origins. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History. Biograph ...

: ''Histoire de la décadence des mœurs chez les Romains et de ses effets dans les derniers tems de la République'' (1794) {{DEFAULTSORT:Binet, Rene French translators French philologists Grammarians from France 1812 deaths 1731 births French male non-fiction writers Translators of Virgil