Robert Seymour Conway, FBA (1864–1933) was a British

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. Born in Stoke Newington, he was the elder brother of Katharine St John Conway. He was Hulme Professor of Latin Literature, at Victoria University, Manchester from 1903 until his retirement in 1929. In 1929 he stood for parliament at the General Election in the constituency of the Combined English Universities for the Liberal party, finishing as runner-up.

Works

*''The Italic Dialects, edited with a grammar and glossary.'' (1897) two volumes *''Virgil's Messianic Eclogue'' (1907) with Joseph B. Mayor and W. Warde Fowler *''The Restored Pronunciation of Greek and Latin with Tables and practical Illustrations'' (1908) with Edward Vernon Arnold
''The youth of Vergil: a lecture delivered in the John Rylands Library on 9 December, 1914''Livius, ''Ab urbe condita,'' libri i-x, edn., Oxford, OCT (1914-1919) (and C.F. Walters)''New studies of a great inheritance, being lectures on the modern worth of some ancient writers''
(1921) *''Harvard Lectures on the Vergilian Age'' (1928) *

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,'' libri xxi-xxx, edn., Oxford, OCT (1929-1935) (and C.F. Walters & S.K. Johnson) *''Great Writers of Rome'' (1930) *''Makers of Europhttp://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001058193e'' (1931) James Henry Morgan lectures in Dickinson College for 1930 *''Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy, Part I: The Venetic Inscriptions'' (1933) *''Ancient Italy and Modern Religion'' (1933) Hibbert Lectures for 1932 *''P. Vergili Maronis - Aeneidos, liber primus'' (1935)

References

*“Robert Seymour Conway,” ''The Classical Review'', Vol. 47, No. 5 (November 1933), pp. 162–163 1864 births 1933 deaths English classical scholars Classical philologists People educated at the City of London School Classical scholars of the University of Manchester Scholars of Latin literature Presidents of the Classical Association {{UK-linguist-stub