SELLAR, WILLIAM YOUNG (1825-1890)

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SELLAR, WILLIAM YOUNG (1825-1890) , Scottish classical scholar, was born at Morvich,

Sutherlandshire

SUTHERLANDSHIRE

, on the 22nd of

February

FEBRUARY

1825. Educated at the Edinburgh

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

and afterwards at Glasgow University, he entered Balliol College,

Oxford

, as a scholar. Graduating with a first-class in classics, he was elected fellow of Oriel, and, after holding assistant professorships at

Durham

DURHAM
DURHAM, JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, 1ST EARL OF (1792–1840)

, Glasgow and St Andrews, was appointed professor of Greek at St Andrews (1857). In 1863 he was elected professor of humanity in Edinburgh University, and occupied that chair down to his death on the 12th of October 1890. Sellar was one of the most brilliant of

modern

MODERN

classical scholars, and was remarkably successful in his endeavours to reproduce the spirit rather than the

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

of Roman literature.
His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

works, The Roman Poets of the Republic (3rd ed., 1889) and The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age (Virgil, 3rd ed., 1897), and ti )race and the Elegiac Poets (2nd ed., by W. P. Ker, 1899), with memoir by Andrew Lang, are standard authorities. Sellar contributed to the 9th edition of the Ency. Brit. a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of brilliant articles on the Roman poets, the substance of which has been retained in the present edition.

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