John Leyden

Scottish orientalist and translator

John Caspar Leyden (8 September 1775 – 28 August 1811) was a Scottish Indologist.

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  • Alas! that Scottish maid should sing
      The combat where her lover fell!
    That Scottish Bard should wake the string,
      The triumph of our foes to tell!
    • "Ode on Visiting Flodden", quoted as an epigram in the front matter of Walter Scott's Marmion, ed. Thomas Bayne (Oxford, 1889)
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