B.A. Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, 1939; M.A., 1943; Litt.D. 1958; Litt.D. (hon.) University of Dublin, 1984.

Fellow, Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, 1944-55; univ. lecturer, Tibetan, 1948-68; praelector, 1954-55; deputy bursar, 1964; sr. bursar, 1965-68; dir. studies in classics, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1955-64; visiting lecturer in classics, Harvard, 1963; prof. Greek & Latin, 1975-82; Pope Professor of Latin Language & Literature, 1975-82; prof. of Latin, University of Michigan, 1968-75; Visiting Andrew V.V. Raymond Professor of Classics, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1973-74; vis. fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Eng., 1980-81; fellow, British Academy, 1958; member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1975; member, American Philosophical Society, 1977; member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1986; Goodwin award, APA, 1978; NEH fellow, 1980-81; Kenyon medal, British Academy, 1985.

Books: The Ṡatapañcāś atka of Mātŗceţa, Sanskrit text, Tibetan translation & commentary, and Chinese translation (ed. & trans.) (Cambridge, Eng., 1951) Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Epistulae, Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis 3vols. in 4 (Oxford, 1952); Propertiana (Cambridge, 1956) REVS: RPh XXXI 1957 151-153 Ernout | AC XXVI 1957 206 van de Woestijne | JRS XLVII 1957 240-247 Williams | CPh LII 1957 136-138 Helmbold | CR N.S. VII 1957 122-123 Barber | Helmantica VIII 1957 323-324 Tovar | Latomus XVI 1957 372-373 Fergusson | DLZ LXXIX 1958 398-402 Eisenhut | Hermathena LXXXVII 1956 67-80 Smyth | Athenaeum XXXIV 1956 205-213 Salvatore | LEC XXIV 1956 405 Falise; Towards a Text of Cicero Ad Atticum, Transactions of the Cambridge Philological Society, 10 (Cambridge, 1960) REVS: REL XXXVII 1959 354 Marouzeau | AC XXIX 1960 197-198 van den Bruwaene | JRS L 1960 278 Watt | Athenaeum XXXVIII 1960 374-375 Frassinetti | Gymnasium LXVII 1960 461-463 Kasten | LF N.S. VIII 1960 357 Svoboda | Helmantica XI 1960 170 de Villapadierna | Latomus XIX 1960 627-628 Desmouliez | ZAnt X 1960 369-370 Ilievski | RPh XXXV 1961 170 Ernout | Gnomon XXXIII 1961 476-478 Williams | CR XI 1961 238-240 Nisbet | Phoenix XV 1961 243-244 Taylor | Mnemosyne XIV 1961 277 Fuchs | AJPh LXXXII 1961 332-333 Mackenzie | CJ LVII 1962 237-239 Stout | CB XXXVIII 1962 46 Costelloe | Emerita XXX 1962 305 Gil Fernández | CPh LVII 1962 183-184 Clausen | DUJ XXIII 1961-1962 133-134 Fletcher; Cicero. Letters to Atticus, I-VI, ed. with transl. & comm. Cambridge Classical Texts & Commentaries III-VIII, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1965-68) REVS: Mnemosyne XXIV 1971 424 Kleywegt | RBPh XLIX 1971 182-184 Depret; Cicero. Letters to Atticus, V, ed. with transl. & comm. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries VII (Cambridge, 1966) REVS: AAHG XXV 1972 185-188 Scholz; Cicero. Letters to Atticus, VI, ed. with transl. & comm., Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries VIII (Cambridge, 1967) REVS: AAHG XXV 1972 185-188 Scholz; M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Ludovicus Claude Purser, Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis, 3vols. in 4 (Oxford, 1968-75, v. 3, 1971]; Cicero. Letters to Atticus, VII: Indices to I-VI, ed with transl. & comm., Cambridge Classical Texts & Commentaries IX (Cambridge, 1970) REVS: G&R XVIII 1971 225 Sewter | LF XCIV 1971 246 Marek | AC XLI 1972 312 van den Bruwaene | Gymnasium LXXIX 1972 73 Kasten | QJS LVIII 1972 243-244 Harding | CF XXVII 1973 290 Lavery; Cicero, Classical Life and Letters (London, 1971) REVS: JRS LXII 1972 216-218 Rawson | QJS LVIII 1972 350-351 Harding | G&R XIX 1972 220-221 Earl | Latomus XXXII 1973 398-400 Boyancé; Two Studies in Roman Nomenclature APA American Classical Studies (n.p., 1976); Cicero. Epistulae ad familiares (ed.), Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, Eng. & New York, 1977); Cicero's Letters to Atticus (trans.) (Harmondsworth, Eng. & New York, 1978); Cicero's Letters to his Friends (trans.), Penguin Classics, 2 vols. (Harmondsworth, Eng. & New York, 1978); “Towards a Text of Anthologia Latina,” Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary volume 5 (Cambridge, 1979); Cicero. Select Letters (ed.) (Cambridge, Eng. & New York, 1980); Cicero. Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem et M. Brutum (ed.) Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (Cambridge, Eng. & New York, 1980); Anthologia latina (ed.), Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart, 1982); Profile of Horace, Classical Life & Letters (Cambridge, MA & London, 1982); Q. Horati Flacci Opera (ed.) Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (ed.) (Stuttgart, 1985); Cicero. Selected Letters (trans.) (New York, 1986); Cicero. Philippics (ed. & trans.) (Chapel Hill, 1986); M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Atticum (ed.) Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart, 1987); Cicero's Letters to his Friends (trans.) foreword by James E.G. Zetzel, APA Classical Resources Series (Atlanta, 1988); M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad familiares, libri I-XVI (ed.) Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart, 1988); M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem, Epistulae ad M. Brutum : accedunt commentariolum petitionis, fragmenta epistularum (ed.) Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart, 1988); M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad familiares, libri I-XVI (ed.) Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart, 1988); M. Annaei Lucani De bello civili libri X (ed.) Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart, 1988; 2nd ed. Stuttgart, 1997); Onomasticon to Cicero's Speeches (Norman, OK, 1988; Stuttgart, 1988; 2nd rev. ed., 1992) REVS: CW LXXXIV 1990-1991 59 Hughes | AJPh CXII 1991 559-562 Harvey | Gnomon LXIV 1992 499-502 H. Solin | LEC LIX 1991 296-297 | AC 1997 66 436 Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier | JRS 1998 88 192 Jonathan G. F. Powell | REL 1997 75 314-315 Michèle Ducos; M. Fabii Quintiliani Declamationes minores (ed.) Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart, 1989); M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammata (ed.) Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart, 1990); Two Studies in Roman Nomenclature APA American Classical Studies 3 (2nd ed., Atlanta, 1991) REVS: CR 43 1993 194-195 R. G. Lewis; Back from Exile: Six Speeches upon His Return (ed. & trans.) Classical Resources Series (Atlanta, 1991) Q. Horati Flacci Opera (ed.) Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart, 1991); Martial. Epigrams (ed. & trans.) LCL 94-95, 480, 3 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 1993); Homoeoteleuton in Latin Dactylic Verse, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 31 (Stuttgart, 1994) REVS: CR 1996 N. S. 46 (2) 243-245 Robin G. M. Nisbet | RFIC 1996 124 (1) 107-109 Henry David Jocelyn; Onomasticon to Cicero's Treatises (Stuttgart, 1996); Cicero. Letters to Atticus (ed. & trans.) LCL 7-8, 97, 491 (Cambridge, MA, 1999); Valerius Maximus. Memorable Doings and Sayings (ed. & trans.) LCL 492-3, 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 2000); Cicero. Letters to Friends (ed. & trans.) LCL 205 3 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 2001); Cicero. Letters to Quintus and Brutus; Letter to Octavian; Invectives; Handbook of Electioneering (ed. & trans.) LCL 462 (Cambridge, MA, 2002); Statius. Silvae (ed. & trans.), LCL 206 (Cambridge, MA, 2003); Statius. Thebaid, Books I-VII (ed. & trans.) LCL 207 (Cambridge, MA, 2003); Statius. Thebaid, Books VIII-XII; Achilleid (ed. & trans.) LCL 498 (Cambridge, MA, 2003); Declamationes Pseudo-Quintilianeae (Minores) , (ed. & trans.) LCL 500-501 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 2006) M. Annaei Lucani. De bello civili. Libri X (ed.) (Berlin & New York, 2009); Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Philippics (ed. & trans.), revised by John T. Ramsey and Gesine Manuwald. LCL 189, 507, 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 2009) Articles: “Propertiana,” CQ (1945) 119-22; “Interpretations of Propertius,” CQ (1947) 89-92; “Propertiana,” CQ (1949) 22-29; “Echoes of Propertius,” Mnemosyne 4th ser. 5 (1952) 307-33; “Some Recent Experiments in Propertian Criticism,” PCPS no. 182 (1952-53) 9-20; “Num in Direct Questions. A Rule Restated,” CQ 47 (1953) 120-25; “Ovidiana,” CQ 48 (1954) 165-170; “On an Idiomatic Use of Possessive Pronouns in Latin,” CR n.s. 4 (1954) 8-9; “The Electra of Sophocles. Prolegomena to an Interpretation,” PCPS no. 183 (1954-55) 20-31; “Notes on Cicero, Ad Quintum fratrem,” JRS 45 (1955) 34-38; “Notes on Corippus,” CP 50 (1955) 119-24; “Emendations of Dracontius' Romulea,” VChr 9 (1955) 178-83; “Expectatio Corfiniensis,” JRS 46 (1956) 57-64; “Maniliana,” CQ 50 (1956) 81-86; “Emendations of Cicero, Ad Atticum PCPS n.s. 4 (1956-57) 13-18; “Emendations of Cicero, Ad Atticum, PCPS (1958) 13-18; “On Cicero, Ad familiares, PCPS n.s. 5 (1958-59) 6-15; “Siliana,” CQ 9 (1959) 173-180; “Seven Emendations,” CR 9 (1959) 200-2; “New Readings in Cicero, Ad Atticum XIII-XVI,” PCPS n.s. 6 (1960) 10-14; “Sex. Clodius-Sex. Cloelius,” CQ 10 (1960) 41-42; “Lactantiana,” VChr 14 (1960) 165-69; “The Roman Nobility in the Second Civil War,” CQ 10 (1960) 253-67; “The Credentials of L. Caesar and L. Roscius,” JRS 50 (1960) 80-83; “A Date in Cicero,” Mnemosyne 14 (1961) 323; “Emendations of Cicero, Ad Quintum fratrem and Ad Brutum, PCPS n.s. 7 (1961) 1-7; “Letter to the Editors,” PCPS n.s. 7 (1961) 70-71; “On Cicero, Ad familiares,” Philologus 105 (1961) 72-89; “Seven Emendations,” CR 11 (1961) 7; “On Cicero, Ad familiares,” Philologus 105 (1961) 263-72; “L. S. J. and Cicero's Letters,” CQ 12 (1962) 159-65; “Cicero, Pro Cluentio 76,” CR 12 (1962) 16; “Two Tribunes, 57 B.C.,” CR 12 (1962) 195-97; “Bentley and Horace,” PCA 59 (1962) 28-29; “Cicero, Pro Cluentio 73,” CR 13 (1963) 265; “L. S. J. and Cicero's Letters,” CQ 13 (1963) 88; “Cicero. Ad Atticum 4, 5,” RhM 107 (1964) 278-84; “Recensuit et emendavit...,” Philologus 108 (1964) 102-18; “Emendations of Seneca Rhetor,” CQ 19 (1969) 320-29; “Manilius IV, 681-695,” Antichthon 3 (1969) 52-53; “Manilius IV 681-95: Further Comments,” Antichthon 4 (1970) 52; “Emendations of Seneca,” CQ 20 (1970) 350-63; “The Prosecution of Roman Magistrates-Elect,” Phoenix 24 (1970) 162-65; “On Cicero ad Familiares II,” Philologus 114 (1970) 88-97; “Notes, Critical and Interpretative, on the Poems of Sidonius Apollinaris,” Phoenix 30 (1976) 242-51; “Notes of Seneca's Quaestiones naturales,” CQ 29 (1979) 448-56; “Sallustiana,” Mnemosyne 34 (1981) 351-56; “Propertius 4.3.94: An Appendix,” AJP 103 (1982) 213-14; “Brothers or Cousins,” AJAH 8 (1983) 191; “Liviana,” RFIC 114 (1986) 320-32; “On Cicero's Speeches (Post reditum),” TAPA 17 (1987) 271-80; “Tacitea, IV,” in Filologia e forme letterarie. Studi offerti a Francesco della Corte (Urbino, 1987) 61-68; “Albanius or Albinius? A Palinode Resung,” HSCP 92 (1989) 213-14; “More on Quintilian's (?) Shorter Declamations,’ HSCP 92 (1989) 367-404; “More Corrections and Explanations of Martial,” AJP 110 (1989) 131-50; “Animals not Admitted. Martial 4.55.23-24,” TAPA 119 (1989) 285; “Two Passages in Cicero's Letters,” AJAH 14 (1989) 70-72; “Horatian Aftermath,” Philologus 134 (1990) 213-28; “Emil Bährens: (1848-1888),” in A Centenary of Latin Studies in Groningen 1877-1977, ed. Heinz Hofmann (Groningen, 1990) 25-37; “Homoeoteleuton in Non-Dactylic Latin Verse,” RFIC 120 (1992) 67-71; “More on Seneca the Elder,” Philologus 137,1 (1993) 38-52; “A Ciceronian Odyssey,” Ciceroniana 8 (1994) 87-92; “Lucretius 5, 201,” RFIC 122 (1994) 138; “QUALIS...TALIS (ET),” RFIC 124,3 (1996) 306-7; “On Valerius Maximus,” RFIC 124,2 (1996) 175-184; Ciceroniana n.s. 10 (1998) 107-118; “Lump into Minibear,” CJ 96, 3 (2000-1) 261; “On Statius' Thebaid’,” HSCP 100 (2000) 463-76; “Τί δεῖ με χορεύειν?” CJ 97, 2 (2001-2) 177-178; “Bound not Beaten, CJ 98, 4 (2002-3) 411-412; “New Readings in Valerius Maximus,” HSCP 101 (2003) 473-81 “On Editing the Silvae: A Response,” HSCP 102 (2004) 455-9. Kleine Schriften: Selected Classical Papers (Ann Arbor, 1997) REVS: CPh 2002 97 (1) 98-100 John Hunt | CR 1999 N. S. 49 (2) 415-416 Robin G. M. Nisbet.

D.R. Shackleton Bailey (1917-2005), “Shack” as he was called by his close friends, was educated at the Royal Lancaster Grammar School, where his father was headmaster, and showed an aptitude for Classics at an early age. As a schoolboy he developed his own program to develop his knowledge of the languages: “I decided that every day I would read privately a quota of Greek or Latin, one hundred lines of verse or four pages of prose in an Oxford text….It proceeded sentence by sentence, with a dictionary and usually a translation and/or commentary for checking. The sentence would then be read aloud. At the end of the paragraph or other appropriate stopping-place, the sentences covered would be read aloud consecutively. At the end of the day’s ration, I would traverse its content in a mental review.” He consistently followed this regimen throughout his life (increasing the amounts of the daily reading) and recommended it to his students. In this period he developed an interest in Cicero’s letters, which he read in the Tyrrell and Purser edition shortly before matriculating at Cambridge and again shortly after graduating. Bailey achieved a “first” in Classics at Cambridge, Part 1 of the Tripos, but he opted to offer Oriental languages (Sanskrit and Pali) for Part 2, possibly motivated by a desire to skirt a heavy dose of history and philosophy, which at the time loomed large in the exams. He learned Tibetan and was eventually appointed lecturer in that language. Though students were few, Bailey produced scholarly articles and reviews in this field from 1948 to 1955. His crowning achievement as an Orientalist was a critical edition of two Sanskrit hymns to Buddha by the first/second-century CE poet Mâtrceta. While at Cambridge, Bailey attended the last lecture of A.E. Housman, whom he described as an “indeterminate little man with a scraggy moustache” who delivered his subject, the manuscripts of Catullus, in a “clear but monotonous” voice. The encounter, though brief, was clearly formative and no doubt partly influenced Bailey’s decision later to dedicate his first book on a classical author, his Propertiana, “to the shade of A.E. Housman.” Like Housman, Bailey over the years won enormous respect for his ability to make use of existing evidence and arrive at the correct interpretation of a problematic passage. Unlike Housman, he formed a true bond with the authors he edited, particularly Cicero, whom he felt should be judged “Not as a statesman, moralist, and author, but as the vivid, versatile, gay, infinitely conversable being, who captivated his society and has preserved so much of himself and it in his correspondence.” After war service at Bletchley Park, Bailey taught first at his old college, Gonville and Caius. His move to Jesus College in 1955 coincided with a move away from Oriental to Classical Studies, signaled quite prominently by the publication of Propertiana, a collection of adversaria (notes discussing textual problems) on some 400+ individual passages taken from the elegies of Propertius, to which is added an appendix comprising parallel passages and reminiscences of words and phrases in every poem in the poet’s four books of poems. His longstanding interest in Cicero’s letters led him to produce an Oxford Classical Text of books 9-16 of Letters to Atticus, which appeared in 1961 (Books 1-8 by A.S. Watt, 1965). By moving back to Gonville and Caius in 1964 as deputy and later senior bursar (financial officer), he was relieved of teaching duties and so able to complete in five years the six massive volumes of his magnum opus, a text, translation, and commentary on the whole corpus of Atticus letters, published in six volumes from 1965 to 1968. He rounded out the collection by publishing in 1977 a two-volume text and commentary edition of Cicero’s Letters to his Friends (Ad Familiares) and in 1980 a single volume of text and commentary on the letters to Cicero’s brother Quintus and to Marcus Brutus. In 1985 the British Academy, to which he had been elected in 1958, honored all ten volumes of his edition of Cicero’s letters as “one of the great monuments of twentieth-century scholarship,” by conferring upon him the coveted Kenyon Medal. Bailey had a great affection for cats. His move from Jesus back to Gonville and Caius is said to have been precipitated when the Master of Jesus (Sir Denys Page) refused to permit a “cat-flap” to be cut in the sixteenth-century oak (outer door) to Shackleton’s rooms for his beloved white cat called “Donum,” a gift from Frances Lloyd-Jones. Bailey is said to have expressed the view that “Donum was more intelligent than any human being whom I have ever met.” The cat accompanied its master from Cambridge to Ann Arbor. Volume 1 of the Letters to Atticus was dedicated to Donum, and a later, beloved brown tabby, “Max,” is the dedicatee of Onomasticon to Cicero’s Letters. His marriage in 1967 to Hilary Bardwell, the ex-wife of novelist Kingsley Amis, required him to find new quarters outside of college. At the invitation of his friend John D’Arms, Bailey joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where his wife opened an English-style fish-and-chips shop, which she wittily named “Lucky Jim’s.” The dissolution of his marriage in 1974 was soon followed by a move from Michigan to Harvard as professor of Greek and Latin and then (in 1982) as Pope Professor of Latin Literature and Language. To his Harvard years belong a steady flow of publications, on average four or five articles per year, three to four reviews yearly, and books ranging in subject from Roman nomenclature to a translation of the complete corpus of Cicero’s letters, a study of Horace, and Teubner texts of Horace, the Anthologia Latina, Lucan, and Cicero’s letters to Atticus, letters to his friends, and letters to Quintus and Brutus. He also edited Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1980-1, 1983-5). Upon reaching Harvard’s mandatory retirement age of 70, Bailey, very much against his wishes, was forced to give up his post in 1988. He moved back to Ann Arbor, where he taught until 2002, married again, and produced in the seventeen years of his retirement eighteen Loeb volumes, more than have been produced by any other editor in that series. Translation had always been intrinsic to Bailey’s editing process: “ideally an editor of a text should translate it, whether or not the translation is published. The discipline is almost sure to bring out points that would otherwise go unnoticed.” Bailey produced three volumes of Martial, eight volumes of the complete corpus of Cicero’s letters, to which is appended the treatise of electioneering attributed to Cicero’s brother Quintus, two volumes of Valerius Maximus, three volumes of Statius, and two volumes of the lesser declamations attributed to Quintilian. In his 1959 essay on Housman, Bailey defended the exercise of massive learning and intelligence upon small points of textual variation: “I am no philosopher…, but I will risk two not specially original suggestions. First, a pursuit which engages the interest of a considerable number of intelligent people can empirically be reckoned ‘worthwhile.’ Second, a society which cares only for work that is somehow aimed at the satisfaction of its lust for power or its physical appetites…should be in a fair way towards an inglorious end, of bombs or boredom.”

"A Ciceronian Odyssey," Selected Classical Papers (Ann Arbor, 1997) , E.J.Kenney, Independent (4 January 2006), Ruth Scodel, Times (22 December 2005), Richard Thomas, Harvard Gazette (8 December 2005); APA Newsletter (December 2005) 11-13; WhAm (2006) 194; John T. Ramsey Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 152,2 (June 2008) 267-78