BOS

bos, lambert (1670-1717), dutch scholar and critic, was born at workum in friesland, where his father was headmaster of the school. he went to the university of franeker (suppressed by napoleon in 1811), and was appointed professor of greek there in 1704; after an uneventful life he died at franeker in 1717. his most famous work, _ellipses graecae_ (1702), was translated into english by john seager (1830); and his _antiquitates graecae_ (1714) passed through several editions. he also published _vetus testamentum_, ex versione lxx. interpretum (1709); notes on thomas magister (1698); _exercitationes philologicae_ (1700); _animadversiones ad scriptores quosdam graecos_ (1715); and two small treatises on accents and greek syntax.