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ELLIS, ROBINSON (1834- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELLIS, See also:ROBINSON (1834- ) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Harming, near See also:Maidstone, on the 5th of See also:September 1834. He was educated at See also:Elizabeth See also:College, See also:Guernsey, See also:Rugby, and Balliol College, See also:Oxford. In 1858 he became See also:fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1870 See also:professor of Latin at University College, See also:London. In 1876 he returned to Oxford, where from 1883 to 1893 he held the university readership in Latin. In 1893 he succeeded See also:Henry See also:Nettleship as professor. His See also:chief See also:work has been on See also:Catullus, whom he began to study in 1859. His first Commentary on Catullus (1876) aroused See also:great See also:interest, and called forth a See also:flood of See also:criticism. In 1889 appeared a second and enlarged edition, which placed its author in the first See also:rank of authorities on Catullus. Professor Ellis quotes largely from the are among the finest in See also:India. They are first mentioned by See also:early See also:Italian commentators, maintaining that the See also:land where i Ma'sudi, the Arabic geographer of the loth See also:century, but merely the See also:Renaissance originated had done more for scholarship than is as a celebrated See also:place of See also:pilgrimage. The caves differ from those commonly recognized. He has supplemented his See also:critical work of See also:Ajanta in consequence of their being excavated in the sloping by a See also:translation (1871, dedicated to See also:Tennyson) of the poems in sides of a See also:hill and not in a nearly perpendicular cliff.

They the metres of the originals. Another author to whom Professor extend along the See also:

face of the hill for a mile and a See also:quarter, and are Ellis has devoted many years' study is See also:Manilius, the astrological poet. In 1891 he published Nodes Manilianae, a See also:series of See also:dissertations on the Astronomica, with emendations. He has also treated See also:Avianus, Velleius Paterculus and the See also:Christian poet Orientius, whom he edited for the See also:Vienna Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum. He edited the See also:Ibis of See also:Ovid, the Aetna of the younger See also:Lucilius, and contributed to the Anecdota Oxoniensia various unedited Bodleian and other See also:manuscripts. In 1907 he published Appendix Vergiliana (an edition of the See also:minor poems); in 1908 The Annalist L,icinianus.

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