COPE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1818-1873), English classical scholar, was born in Birmingham on July 28 1818, and died on Aug. 5 1873. He was a sound scholar, with perhaps a tendency to over-minuteness. He was the author of An Introduc tion to Aristotle's Rhetoric (1867), a standard work; The Rhetoric of Aristotle, with a commentary, revised and edited by J. E. Sandys (1877) ; translations of Plato's Gorgias (2nd ed., 1884) and Phaedo (revised by H. Jackson, The chief authority for the facts of Cope's life is the memoir prefixed to vol. i. of his edition of The Rhetoric of Aristotle.