ROBINSON

See also:

• ELLIS (originally SHARPE), ALEXANDER JOHN (1814-189o)
• ELLIS, GEORGE (1753-1815)
• ROBINSON ELLIS (1834- )
• ELLIS, SIR HENRY (1777-1869)
• ELLIS, WILLIAM (1794 – 1872)

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

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

face of the hill for a mile and a quarter, and are Ellis has devoted many years' study is Manilius, the astrological poet . In 1891 he published Nodes Manilianae, a series of dissertations on the Astronomica, with emendations . He has also treated Avianus, Velleius Paterculus and the Christian poet Orientius, whom 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 L,icinianus .