Robinson Ellis

Robinson Ellis ( born September 5, 1834 in Barming in Maidstone, † October 10, 1913 in Oxford ) was a British philologist Classic.

Life

His education began at the Elizabeth College, Guernsey, then he attended Rugby School, and finally the Balliol College. In 1858 he became a Fellow of Trinity College, and in 1870 professor of Latin at University College London. In 1876 he returned to Oxford, where until 1893 he held a lectureship in Latin of 1883. In 1893 he followed Henry Nettleship as professor.

In much of his scientific work Catullus, with whom he dealt since 1859 was. His first Commentary on Catullus (1876 ) aroused great interest and considerable criticism. In 1889 he brought out a second, expanded edition, which resulted as Catullus authority from the now made ​​recognition of the author. Ellis cited particularly from Italian subtitles to make it clear that the birthplace of the Renaissance have done more for research commonly known as. He completed his critical work by a translation (1871, Alfred Tennyson dedicated ) of the poems in the meter of the original.

Another author, Ellis devoted many years of study, was Marcus Manilius, the author of the astronomical and astrological didactic poem Astronomica. In 1891 he published Noctes Manilianae, a number of dissertations on the Astronomica, including corrections. He also treated Avianus, Velleius Paterculus and the Christian poet Orientius, which he published in the Vienna Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. He published Ovid's Ibis, which Lucilius Iunior attributed poem Aetna and headed to the Anecdota Oxoniensia several unpublished manuscripts, among others at from the Bodleian Library. In 1907 he published an edition of the appendix Vergiliana and 1908 the annalists Licinianus.

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