Cyril Bailey

Cyril Bailey, CBE, FBA (13 April 1871 – 5 December 1957) was an English classicist. He was a fellow and tutor at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1902 to 1939.

Early life He was born on 13 April 1871 to Alfred Bailey, a barrister and legal scholar, and his wife Fanny Margaret, née Coles, a merchant's daughter. His godfather (and cousin) was the banker and classical scholar Sir Walter Leaf. Cyril attended St Paul's School in London, before studying classics at Balliol College, Oxford (1890–94); he won the Craven and Hertford scholarships.

Academic career and honours After graduating with a first-class degree, Bailey was elected a fellow and tutor at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1894. He left there in 1902, when he returned to Balliol as a fellow. He remained there for thirty seven years before retiring in 1939.

Selected works Lvcreti de Rervm Natvra Libri Sex, Oxford Classical Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900; 2nd ed., 1922). The Religion of Ancient Rome (London: A. Constable & Co, 1907). Lucretius on the Nature of Things (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910). P. Ovidi Nasonis Fastorum Liber III (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921). The Clouds of Aristophanes, Clarendon Series of Latin and Greek Authors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921). The Legacy of Rome (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923). Epicurus: The Extant Remains (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926). (editor) Mind of Rome (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926). The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928). Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932). Religion in Virgil (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935). Francis Fortescue Urquhart: A Memoir (London: Macmillan and Co., 1936). De Rerum Natura Libri Sex, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947). Hugh Percy Allen (London: Oxford University Press, 1948). Lucretius (London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1949). A Short History of the Balliol Boys' Club, 1907–1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950).