Grote, George

D.C.L., F.R.S., an eminent English historian and e ayist, is the son of a London banker, and was B. in 1794. He was educated at the Charter house, and devoted his adolescent years to banking and mercantile pursuits, pa ing his leisure in unremitting study of cla ical literature. While contributing important articles to the Reviews on political and poetical subjects, G. was busily engaged on his great work The History of Greece, the first vol. of which appeared in 1846, and the last in 1856. This work at once placed the author in the first rank of historians, and was followed, in 1865, by his Plato and the other Companions of So crates. D. 1871. Grotesque, ( gro - těsk ',) a. It. grottesca; Sp. grotesco.] extravagant; ludicrous; of tions; odd; antic. [Fr., from grotte , a grotto; Wildly formed; whimsical; irregular forms and prop or (Fine Arts.) A term applied to capricious ornaments, which as a whole have no type in nature; consisting of figures, animals, leaves, flowers, fruits, and the like, all connected together. This light, fantastic, and often very beautiful style was much in favor during the Re Fig . 1204. GROTESQUE. nai ance. It was so called in the 13th cent., from its having been rediscovered in the excavations made in the Baths of Titus and other ancient Roman buildings, the Italian word grotto applying to any subterranean chamber. Grotesquely, ( gro - těsk'le,) adv. In a grotesque or Groton, in Ohio , a township of Erie co. Groton, in South Dakota , a post-village and township of Brown co., on the C., M. & St. Paul and the C. & N. W. R. Rs., 32 m. E. of Aberdeen. Is in a wheat growing region and has roller flour mills. Pop . of village (1895) 601. Groton, in Vermont , a post-township of Caledonia co. Groton Centre, in Connecticut , a village of New London co., on the Thames river, opposite New London. Groton Junction, in Ma achusetts , a village of Middle sex co., about 30 m. N.N.W. of Boston. Grot tam are, ( grot - ta - ma'ray,) a town of the Pontifi cal States, Italy, 14 m. W. of Fermo. Manuf . Licorice, and refined sugar. Pop . 4,850.