Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones obituary (Guardian Unlimited)
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Expert in Greek and a dominant figure in classical scholarship ‘Greek, Sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can” was a quotation (from Samuel Johnson) that was often on the lips of Hugh Lloyd-Jones, regius professor of Greek at Oxford from 1960 until 1989, who has died aged 87. The brilliance and evident conviction with which Lloyd-Jones upheld the value of Greek in a changed …
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