DRAKENBORCH, ARNOLD, a celebrated scholar and editor, was a native of Utrecht, where he was born January 1, 1684. Having studied belles-lettres under Grævius and Burmann, and law under Cornelius Van Eck, he succeeded Professor Burmann in 1716, and continued to hold his professorship till his death in 1748, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. His earliest work was a dissertation entitled Disputatio philologico-historica de Profecto urbis, in 4to, and its intrinsic merit caused it to be reprinted at Frankfurt, in 1752, by Professor Uhl, accompanied with a life of its learned author. His next work, entitled Disputatio de officio prefectorum pratorio, was published in 1707; and ten years afterwards he gave to the world his edition of Silius Italicus, in seventeen books, 4to. In order to render this edition as perfect as possible, nothing was omitted; and many historical subjects were engraved for the purpose of elucidating the text, to which his own copious and learned annotations greatly contributed. But his splendid edition of Livy, Lugd. Batav. 1798 and 1746, 7 tom., with a life of that eminent historian, is that on which his fame as a scholar chiefly rests. The preface to this work is replete with erudition, and gives a particular account of all the literary men who have at different periods commented on the works of Livy. His edition is based on that of Gronovius; but he made many important alterations on the authority of manuscripts which it is probable Gronovius had either never seen, or not taken the pains to consult. Upon the whole, this edition of Livy is one of the most elaborate, interesting and instructive, ever given to the world.