Crossword-Solution: PORSON 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

But, perhaps, the most interesting story illustrative of the practice of carrying one's reading around with one is that which is told of Professor Porson, the Greek scholar.

Whereupon Porson drew from another pocket a copy of Euripides and challenged the upstart to find the quotation in question.

Full of confusion, the fellow thrust his head out of the window of the coach and cried to the driver: "In heaven's name, put me down at once; for there is an old gentleman in here that hath the Bodleian Library in his pocket!" Porson himself was a veritable slave to the habit of reading in bed.

For a full and learned statement of the evidence against the verse, see Porson's Letters to Travis, London, 1790, in which an elaborate discussion of all the MSS.

Scholars, of whom Porson was chief, followed out this method, and though at times, as in Porson's own case, they were warned off, with much loss and damage, from the application of it to the sacred text, they kept alive the better tradition.