Charles Edwin Bennett (April 6, 1858 – May 2, 1921) was an American

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and the Goldwin Smith Professor of

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. He is best remembered for his book '' New Latin Grammar'', first published in 1895 and still in print .

Life

Born in

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, Bennett graduated from Brown University in 1878 and also studied at Harvard (1881–1882) and in

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(1882–1884). He taught in secondary schools in

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(1878–1879), New York (1879–1881), and

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(1885–1889), and became professor of

in the

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in 1889, of

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at Brown University in 1891, and of Latin at Cornell University in 1892. His syntactical studies, notably various papers on the subjunctive, are based on a statistical examination of Latin texts and are marked by a fresh system of nomenclature; he ranks as one of the leaders of the New American School of syntacticians, who insist on a preliminary re-examination of all available data. Of great importance are his advocacy of quantitative reading of Latin verse and his ''Critique of Some Recent Subjunctive Theories'' in vol. ix. (1898) of Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, of which he was an editor. Bennett's ''Latin Grammar'' (1895) is the first successful attempt in America to adopt the method of the brief, scholarly Schulgrammatik. Besides the Latin classics commonly read in secondary courses and other text-books in Bennett's ''Latin Series'', he edited

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's ''Dialogus de Oratoribus'' (1894), and

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the esta ...

's ''De Senectute'' (1897) and ''De Amicitia'' (1897). He wrote ''The Teaching of Greek and Latin in Secondary Schools'' (1900), with George P. Bristol, and ''The Latin Language'' (1907), with

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, and translated ''The Characters of

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'' (1902), and the Loeb Classical Library edition of the ''

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'' and '' Epodes'' of Horace (1914). He was president of the American Philological Association in 1907.

Other publications

* ''Foundations of Latin'' (1898) *''Latin Lessons'' (1901) *''Caesar's Gallic War'' (1903) *''Cicero's Selected Orations'' (1904) *''Virgil's Aeneid'' (1904) *''Preparatory Latin Writer'' (1905) *''Syntax of Early Latin'', 2 vols. (1910, 1914) *''New Latin Composition'', (1912) *''New Cicero'' (1922)

References

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External links

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Foundations of Latin Latin Lessons

Cicero's Selected Orations

Preparatory Latin WriterSyntax of Early Latin
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