Ellis, Robinson

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

(b. 1834)

Scholar. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus in the Metres of the Original (1871), A Commentary on Catullus (1876), The Ibis of Ovid, etc. (1881), The Fables of Avianus (1887), Noctes Manilianæ (1891), many separate lectures on classical subjects, etc.

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