ELLIS, ROBINSON English classical scholar, was born at Barming, Kent. He was Latin reader at Oxford from 1883 till 1893 when he became professor. His most important work was his Commentary on Catullus (1876, new ed. 1889), which aroused much criticism. He also translated the poems (1871) in the metres of the originals. His other works include Noctes Manilianae, dissertations on the Astronomica, with emendations 0890 ; editions of Avianus (1887) , Velleius Pater culus (1898) and the Christian poet Orientius (1888), vol. xvi. of the Vienna Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, the Ibis of Ovid (1881), the Aetna of the younger Lucilius (1901), Appendix Vergiliana (an edition of the minor poems) (1908), and Ovid's Amores (1912) .