Orelli, Johann Kaspar von, a Swiss scholar, born at Zurich, where he was professor of Classical Philology; edited editions of the classics, particularly Horace, Tacitus, and Cicero, highly esteemed for the scholarship they show and the critical judgment (1787‒1849).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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