Thomas Day Seymour

26 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW OBITUARY THOMAS DAY SEYMOUR. PROFESSOR SEYMOUR, who died on Dec. (Scribner's Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, The 31, was born in Hudson, Ohio, April 1, Chautauquan, etc.), he wrote a vast num- 1848, of Puritan ancestry on both sides. ber of shorter notes and book reviews, He received the degree of B.A. at Western signed and unsigned, in the Nation (New Reserve University, where he was Professor York), American Journal of Philology, Clas- of Greek from 1872 to 1880, when he sical Philology,, and this Review. Since 1889 became Professor of Greek at Yale Uni- he had been one of the Associate Editors of versity ; he held this position until his death. this Review for America. He studied classical philology in Berlin and He was for twelve years chairman of the Leipsic in 1870-72, and made many visits to Managing Committee of the American School Greece and other Greek lands. of Classical Studies at Athens. At the time His powerful influence on American of his death, he had been President of the scholarship was exerted in many ways: by Archaeological Institute of America for five his teaching, by his activity as editor and years. The honorary degree of Doctor of reviewer, and by his own writings: by his Laws was conferred upon him by Western shining example as a profound, unwearied, Reserve Universityin i894,byGlasgowin 1901, accurate and fruitful scholar, impatient ever and by Harvard in 1906. He had countless of inadequate work : by the close friendships friends, here and abroad, some of whom he established with the scholars of his own were attached to him by the warmest ties and of the younger generation, and not least of affection : among these, to name only the by his activity as administrator of large dead, were F. D. Allen, Blass, Jebb, and enterprises. His writings were miscellaneous Lord Kelvin. in character, Pindar, Plato, but above all All who knew him loved him for the purity Homer being his favourite authors. His and loftiness of his character, and for his earliest book was his Selected Odes of Pindar high disinterestedness; they admired him (1882); he wrote many notes on Plato: while for the swiftness and sureness of his mind he attested his lifelong devotion to Homer by in action, for his marvellous powers of work, his Introduction to the Language and Verse of for the range of his intellectual interests, and Homer (1885), Homers Iliad, I-VI (1887- for his broad outlook on life, where sensitive- 90), Homeric Vocabulary (1889), School Iliad, ness to new ideas was united with a wise (1891), Introduction and Vocabulary to School conservatism. To many of us, in his going Odyssey, eight books (1901)—most of all, forth, however, by his Life in the Homeric Age, SVOTCTO T rjeXios (TKIOWVTO T€ traxrai ayval. published only three months before his death. JOHN H. WRIGHT. Besides original articles in the Transactions of the American Philological Association [We regret to add that before this notice and Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, reached us, the author himself died. and in more popular periodical literature EDITOR C.H.] ARCHAEOLOGY CORSTOPITUM. THE excavations on the site of Corstopitum lying on the north side of the broad street were resumed in July last, and continued discovered in 1907. The buildings fronting till early in October, the area examined on this street proved to have been of con- Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 25 Sep 2021 at 12:18:58, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X00002560.

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