DRAKENBORCH, ARNOLD, was born at Utrecht iu 1684, studied in that university under Oratvius and Peter Eminent', and at the ago of twenty wrote an elaborate dissertation, 'Do Prsefectis Urbis,' which established hie reputation as a scholar. This work treated in eleven chapters of the origin, nature, importance, and various duties and powers, belonging to the office of Prefect of Rome. This valuable little work of Drakenborch has gone through several editions; that of Barenth, 1787, contains an extract from the author's funeral oration by Professor Oosterdyk, in which the other works of Drakenborch are mentioned. Upon leaving Utrecht he went to Leyden to study the law, but there also he devoted his chief attention to the classical lessons of Perizonius and Gronovius. He wrote in 1707 another dis sertation, 'De Officio Prmfectorum Prmtorio,' in which he explains and illustrates the nature and duties of that important military office, and the changes it underwent in the course of time, in the same manner as he had done for that of the prefects of the city. Draken
borch undertook, by the advice of Peter Burmann, an edition of Silius haiku, which appeared in 1717. On Burmann's removal to Leyden, Drakenborch succeeded him in the chair of history and eloquence at Utrecht. His edition of Livy, on which he bestowed much time and labour, was published in 1738-46, in 7 vole. 4to. The value of the edition lies in the large collection of various readings, and the illus tration of idioms by parallel passages drawn from the writings of Livy.
The text is decidedly inferior to that which is found in the unpre tending editions by Stroth, Raschig, tze. He published also—' De Utilitate et Fructu humanarum Disciplinarum Oratio inauguralis,' Oratio funebris in Modem Francisci Burmanni,' and other orations and dissertations ; and also History of Utrecht,' and Genealogies of the Noble Families of Holland: He died at Utrecht in 1747. .