Robinson Ellis
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in 1894.Robinson Ellis,
classical scholar
.
Biography
Ellis was born at
Corpus Professor of Latin.[3]
His chief work was on
Alfred Tennyson), The Poems and Fragments of Catullus in the Metres of the Original.[3]
Another author to whom Professor Ellis devoted many years' study was
Velleius Paterculus and the Christian poet Orientius, whose poem Commonitorium he edited for the Vienna Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum. He edited the Ibis of Ovid, the Aetna of the younger Lucilius, and contributed to the Anecdota Oxoniensia various unedited Bodleian and other manuscripts. In 1907 he published Appendix Vergiliana (an edition of the minor poems); in 1908 The Annalist Licinianus
.
He is buried in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Jericho, Oxford.
References
- ^ Oxford University Calendar, 1895, pp. 152, 292
- ^ "Ellis, Robinson". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 553–554.
- ^ a b Who Was Who, 1897-1916, London : A. & C. Black, 1920, p. 226.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ellis, Robinson". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Works by Robinson Ellis at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Robinson Ellis at Internet Archive
- Grave of Robinson Ellis in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, with biography
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