Anthon, Charles

Charles (1797-1867), an American educator. He was a native of New York, and a graduate of Columbia College. He studied for the law, and was admitted to the bar, but he preferred to become an instructor in Columbia. He edited an edition of Horace, 1830. Some fifty volumes, mainly Greek and Latin classics for school and college use, followed in due succession. Dr. Anthon was a kindly man of vast erudition, but it was felt that his notes were too copious and left little for the student to do. Hence the expression, "with his Anthon," is akin, in college phrase, to the aid of a "pony" or translation.