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Harold Edgeworth Butler

Harold Edgeworth Butler was a British Latin scholar. He studied at Oxford University and in 1899 won the Newdigate Prize for the Best Composition in English verse. He became a lecturer and fellow of New College, Oxford the same year. In 1909 he moved to University College, London, and in 1911 he was appointed Professor of Latin in succession to A. E. Housman, a post he held until his retirement in 1942.

Selected publications
Propertius: Sexti Properti Opera omnia: with a commentary by H.E. Butler. London: Archibald Constable, 1905 Propertius with an English translation by H.E. Butler. London: Harvard University Press, 1912 (Loeb classical library) The elegies of Propertius edited with an introduction and commentary by H.E. Butler and E.A. Barber. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933 Apuleius: The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura translated by H.E. Butler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909 The metamorphoses or Golden ass of Apuleius of Madaura translated by H.E. Butler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910 (2 volumes) Apulei Apologia: sive pro se de magia liber with introduction and commentary by H. E. Butler and A. S. Owen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914 Cupid & Psyche: partly in the original and partly in translation with notes and introduction by H.E. Butler. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1922 Post-Augustan poetry: Post-Augustan poetry from Seneca to Juvenal by H.E. Butler. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1909 Virgil: The shorter Aeneid selected and arranged with brief notes, by H.H. Hardy; with a preface and introduction by H.E. Butler. London: G. Bell, 1914 The sixth book of the Aeneid. Virgil, with introduction and notes by H.E. Butler. Oxford: Blackwell, 1920 The fourth book of Virgil's Aeneid edited by H.E. Butler. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1935 Quintilian: The Institutio oratoria of Quintilian with an English translation by H.E. Butler. London: Heinemann; New York: Putnam's Sons (Loeb classical library), 4 vols, 1920-1922 Sallust & Cicero: The Catilinarian conspiracy from Sallust & Cicero: partly in the original and partly in translation edited by H.E. Butler. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1921 Sallust: The Jugurthine War: partly in the original and partly in translation. Sallust ; edited by H. E. Butler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921 Cicero: M. Tulli Ciceronis De provinciis consularibus oratio ad Senatum edited with introduction, notes and appendices by H. E. Butler and M. Cary. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1924 (reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1979) Livy: The close of the second Punic war: being Livy books XXIX, XXX partly in the original and partly in translation, edited by H.E. Butler. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1925 Livy, book XXX edited by H.E. Butler ... and H.H. Scullard ... ; with a map and 3 plans. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1939?] Suetonius: C. Suetoni Tranquilli Divus Iulius edited with an introduction and commentary by H. E. Butler and M. Cary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927 (later edition with additions by G.B. Townend: Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1982) Horace: The Odes of Horace: in English verse. Latin text with translations by various hands, chosen by H.E. Butler. London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1929 Medieval and Modern subjects: Five Stuart princesses Margaret of Scotland, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Mary of Orange, Henrietta of Orleans, Sophie of Hanover edited by Robert S. Rait. New-York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1902 (essay on Margaret of Scotland by H.E. Butler) War songs of Britain, selected by H.E. Butler. London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1903 The Black book of Edgeworthstown and other Edgeworth memories, 1585-1817 edited by Harriet Jessie Butler and Harold Edgeworth Butler. London: Faber and Gwyer, [1927] The autobiography of Giraldus Cambrensis edited and translated by H. E. Butler ; with an introductory chapter by C. H. Williams. London: Jonathan Cape, [1937] The chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: concerning the acts of Samson, abbot of the monastery of St. Edmund translated from the Latin with introduction, notes and appendices by H. E. Butler. London; New York: T. Nelson, [1949] Tour in Connemara, and The Martins of Ballinahinch by Maria Edgeworth; edited by Harold Edgeworth Butler. London: Constable, 1950 The letters of John of Salisbury Vol.1, The early letters (1153-1161) edited by W. J. Millor and H. E. Butler; revised by C. N. L. Brooke. London: Thomas Nelson, 1955 (reissued with a second volume, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986) == References ==
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