ANDRE, was born at Castres In 1651, and studied at Saumur under Tanegay Lefevre, whose daughter Anne (born iu ]654) he married in 1633. Both husband and wife became eminent among the elaselieal scholars of the 17th century. They were employed with others to comment upon and edit a aeries of thetneient authors for the dauphin, which form the collection 'Ad usum Delphiui! Madame Dacier's commentaries are considered as superior to those of her husband. She edited Calimachus, Florus, Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, and the history which goes by the name of Dictys Cretousis, all of which have been repeatedly reprinted, with her notes. She published French translations of the Amphitryon, lindens, and Lepidiens of Plautus, with a good preface; of the comedies of Terence, of the Plutus and the Clouds of Aristophanes, and of Anacreon and Sappho. She also translated the ' Iliad' and the ' Odyssey,' with a preface and notes. This led to a controversy between her and La Motte, who had spoken slightingly of Homer. Madame Dacier wrote In 1714 Con rid6rations Fur les Causes de I. Corruption du Goat,' in which she defended the cause of Homer with great vivacity, as she did also against Father IIardouin, who bad written an 'Apology of Homer,' which was more a censure than an apology. The warmth however
with which both the Daciera resented anything that was said against the ancient writers was carried to the extreme, and had at times some thing ludicrous in it ; but Madame Dacier's enthusiasm waa real, and unaccompanied by pedantry or conceit. Neither did her learned Inenbrations make her neglect her domestic duties as a wife and a mother ; and she was generous and charitable towards the poor. She died in 1720, and her husband iu 1722. The latter, besides his editions of the classics, translated also into French the works of Hippocrates, the ' CEdipus ' and Electra' of Sophocles, the ` Poetical' of Aristotle, and the lives of Plutarch, which last translation is inferior to Amyot's; he ciao translated Horace, but neither the translation nor the notes are much esteemed. The Bibliotheqne des Anciens Philosophes,' 9 vols. 12mo, was published under Dacier's name, hut ho only furnished some of Plato's dialogues and the Manual of Epictetus. Dacier was a member of the Academy of Inscriptions, secretary to the French Academy, and keeper of the Cabinet of the Louvre, and he had a pension of 2000 franca from Louis XIV.