Ethan Allen Andrews (April 7, 1787 – March 4, 1858) was an American lexicographer and educator. He published a major Latin dictionary in 1850 and served in the

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in 1851 and was a Whig.Connecticut State Library-Members of the Connecticut General Assembly

Life

Andrews was born in New Britain, Connecticut, and graduated at

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in 1810. He practiced law for several years, then (1822–1828) was

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of ancient languages at the

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, after which he taught at

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and

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. He married Lucy Cowles Andrews, with whom he had one son, Horace. He died on March 4, 1858 in New Britain.

Works

He published a number of

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textbooks and in 1850 a Latin-English lexicon, a reduced version of Wilhelm Freund's German translation of

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's 1771 dictionary, which became known as ''Andrews' Lexicon''. It went through many revisions and came to be known as ''Harper's Latin Dictionary'' (1907). He published a Latin grammar with his Yale classmate Solomon Stoddard, long very popular. A monograph, ''Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States'', was printed in Boston in 1836. Other publications include "First Latin Book"; "Latin Reader"; "Viri Romae"; "Latin Lessons"; "Andrews' and Stoddard's Latin Grammar"; "Synopsis of Latin Grammar"; "Questions on the Latin Grammar"; "Latin Exercises"; "Key to Latin Exercises"; "Exercises in Latin Etymology"; "Caesar's Commentaries"; "Sallust"; and "Ovid".

Books

*''Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States'' (Boston, 1836)

Edited volumes

*''Leisure Hours: A Choice Collection of Readings in Prose'' (Boston, 1844)

Reference works

*''A Copious and Critical Latin-English Lexicon Founded on the Larger Latin-German Lexicon of Dr. Wilhelm Freund'' (New York, 1851)

Textbooks

*''A Grammar of the Latin Language for Use of Schools and Colleges'' with Soloman Stoddard (Boston, 1836) *''Questions upon Andrews' and Stoddard's Latin Grammar (Boston and New York, 1836) *''First Lessons in Latin'' (New York and Boston, 1837) *''The First Part of Jacobs and Doring's Latin Reader (Boston, 1837) *''Latin Exercises'' (Boston, 1837) *''A Key to Latin Exercises'' (Boston, 1837) *''A First Latin Book or Progressive Lessons in Reading and Writing Latin'' (Boston, 1846) *''A Synopsis of Latin Grammar'' (Boston, 1851) *''Exercises in Latin Etymology'' (Boston, 1855) *''A Manual of Latin Grammar'' (Boston, 1859)

Translations

*''Sallust's History of the War against Jugurtha, and of the Conspiracy of Catiline'' (New Haven, 1841) *''Lhomond's Virie Romae'' (Boston, 1842) *''C. Julius Caeser's Commentaries on the Gallic War'' (Boston, 1846)

References

External links

*
Guide to the Ethan Allen Andrews papers
Manuscripts and Archives,

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