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David Roy Shackleton Bailey FBA (10 December 1917 – 28 November 2005) was a British scholar of
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literature (particularly in the field of
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) who spent his academic life teaching at the
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, the
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, and
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. He is best known for his work on
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(editing his complete works for the
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series), and
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, especially his commentaries and
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s of Cicero's letters.


Academic career

Bailey was the youngest of four children born to John Henry Shackleton Bailey and Rosmund Maud (née Giles). After being educated at
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, where his mathematician father was headmaster, Shackleton Bailey read first Classics and then Oriental Studies at
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, before spending the years of the Second World War at
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, the home of the British code-breaking efforts. He returned to Caius as a fellow in 1944, and in 1948 obtained a lectureship in Tibetan at
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. In 1955 he migrated to
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, where, as Director of Studies in Classics, he began publishing the long series of books and articles on Latin authors that would occupy the rest of his life. He spent four more years at Caius from 1964 to 1968, this time serving as Bursar and Senior Bursar. This time, his move was reputedly because Sir
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, Master of Jesus, refused to allow Shack (as he was commonly known) to have a cat-flap installed in his ancient oak door. In 1968 he crossed the Atlantic, specifically to the
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at
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; and in 1976 he moved to
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(whose Classics department he had visited in 1963), first as Professor of Greek and Latin, then (from 1982) as Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. He twice served as the editor of ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'' (1980-1981 and 1983–1985). In 1988 he retired from Harvard and became an adjunct professor at the
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. In 1967 he married Hilary Ann Bardwell (who was later married to Alastair Boyd), the former wife of the British author
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; this marriage was dissolved in 1975. In 1994 he married Kristine Zvirbulis. He was extremely fond of cats (the first volume of his seven-volume
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edition of the Letters of
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is dedicated to Donum, a feline present from Frances Lloyd-Jones) and of classical music. In 1958 he earned the double honour of a fellowship of the
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(whose
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he would be awarded in 1985) and a
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degree from Cambridge; he also held an honorary
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from Dublin University, awarded in 1984. He was elected a Fellow of the
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in 1975 and a member of the
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in 1977. He was a member of the American Philological Association, which awarded him the Goodwin Award for Merit in 1978; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; an honorary member of the
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; and an honorary fellow of
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. The bulk of his scholarly work focused on Latin philology and Roman history and prosopography. In retirement he prepared many editions for the
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published by Harvard University Press, including those of Martial, Valerius Maximus, Statius, and the correspondence of Cicero. He died of
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in
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,
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Publications (selected)

* ''The Śatapañcāśatka of Mātṛceṭa. Sanskrit text, Tibetan translation & commentary and Chinese translation y I-Ching Edited by D.R. Shackleton Bailey. With an introduction, English translation and notes.'' (1951) * ''Propertiana'' (Cambridge, 1958). * co-ed. W.S. Watt. ''Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistulae''. 4 v. (Oxford, OCT, 1958-1982: v. 2.ii: Ep. ad Atticum, libri ix-xvi, rec. D.R.Sh.-B., 1961) * ed. ''Cicero: Letters to Atticus'' 7 v. (Cambridge, 1965–70). * ed. ''Cicero: Epistulae ad familiares'' 2 v. (Cambridge, 1977). * trans. ''Cicero’s letters to his friends'' (Atlanta, 1978). * ''Cicero’s Letters to Atticus'' 2 v. (Penguin, 1978). * ''Profile of Horace'' (Harvard, 1982). * ed. ''Anthologia Latina'' I fasc. 1: ''Libri Salmasiani aliorumque carmina'' (Stuttgart, 1982). * ed. ''Q. Horati Flacci Opera'' (Stuttgart, 1985). * ed. and trans. ''Cicero: Philippics'' (Chapel Hill, 1986). * ed. ''M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Atticum'' 2 v.(Stuttgart, 1987). * ed. ''M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Familiares'' (Stuttgart, 1988). * ed. ''M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Q. Fratrem, ad M. Brutum, Commentariolum petitionis, fragmenta epistularum'' (Stuttgart, 1988). * ed. ''M. Fabii Quintiliani Declamationes minores'' (Stuttgart, 1989). * ''Onomasticon to Cicero’s speeches'' (Stuttgart, 1988, 1991²). * trans. ''Cicero. Back from Exile: Six Speeches upon his Return'' (Atlanta, 1991). * ed. ''M. Annaei Lucani De bello civili libri X'' (Stuttgart, 1988; 1997²). * ed. ''M. Valerii Martialis epigrammata'' (1990). * ''Homoeoteleuton in Latin dactylic verse'' (Stuttgart, 1994). * ''Onomasticon to Cicero’s letters'' (Stuttgart, 1995). * ''Onomasticon to Cicero’s treatises'' (Stuttgart, 1996). * ''Selected classical papers'' (Ann Arbor, 1997). * ed. and trans. ''Valerius Maximus: Memorable doings and sayings'' 2 v. (
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#s 492, 493, Harvard UP, 2000). * ed. and trans. ''Cicero: Letters to friends'' 3 v. (
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#s 205, 216, 230, Harvard UP, 2001). * ed. and trans. ''Statius: Silvae'' (
Loeb Classical Library The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; , ) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. The library contains important works of ancient Greek and L ...
#206, Harvard UP, 2003; corrected ed. 2015). * ed. and trans. ''Statius: Thebaid Books 1-7'' (
Loeb Classical Library The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; , ) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. The library contains important works of ancient Greek and L ...
#207, Harvard UP, 2003). * ed. and trans. ''Statius: Thebaid Books 8-12; Achilleid'' (
Loeb Classical Library The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; , ) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. The library contains important works of ancient Greek and L ...
#498, Harvard UP, 2003). * ed. and trans. ''Quintilian: The Lesser Declamations'' 2 v. (
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#s 500, 501, Harvard UP, 2006).


References

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