DACIER, Anne Lefèvre, the wife of the preceding, and still more celebrated than herself for her knowledge of the classical languages, was born at Saumur in 1651. The first work which brought her into notice was her translation of the Greek poet Callimachus. This established her reputation so thoroughly, that she was soon requested to edit others of the ancient classics for the use of the Dauphin. In this collection she published successively Florus, Eutropius, Aurelius Victor, and Dictys Cretensis. Her translations of the ancient classics are very numerous. Among these may be mentioned the Amphitryon, Rudens, and Epideicus of Plautus, the whole of Terence, the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, the Plutus and Clouds of Aristophanes, and the whole of Sappho and Anacreon. Madame Dacier died in 1720, two years before her husband.