1) JACOB (1715-1804).-Scholar, _ed._ at Eton and Camb., wrote learnedly, but paradoxically, on mythological and Homeric subjects. His chief works were _A New System or Analysis of Ancient Mythology_ (1774-76), _Observations on the Plain of Troy_ (1795), and _Dissertation concerning the Wars of Troy_ (1796). In the last two he endeavoured to sh