MINTON

WARREN (1850-1907)  , American classical scholar, was born at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on the 29th of January 185o, a descendant of Richard Warren, who sailed in the " May-flower " in 162o . He was educated at Tufts College and subsequently at Yale . After three years as a schoolmaster, he went to Germany to complete his studies in comparative philology and especially in Latin language and literature . Having taken the degree of doctor of philosophy at Strassburg in 1879, he returned to the United States as Latin professor at Johns Hopkins University . In 1899 he was appointed Latin professor at Harvard . His life-work was a new edition of Terence, which, however, he left unfinished at his death . He was director of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome (1897—1899), and president of the American Philological Association (1898) . Among his publications are: " Enclitic Ne in Early Latin " (Strassburg dissert., reprinted in Amer . Journ. of Philol., 1881); On Latin Glossaries, with especial reference to the Codex Sangallensis (St Gall Glossary) (Cambridge, U.S.A., 1885); The Stele Inscription in the Roman Forum (Amer . Journ. of Philol., vol. xxviii . No . 3, and separately in 1908) .

He died on the 26th of

November 1907 . See Harvard Magazine (Jan . 1908) and IN . M . Lindsay in Classical Review (Feb . 1908) .