E.H. Warmington (1898–1987) was a professor of classics

Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

, internationally known for his Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 translations. He attended The Perse School, Cambridge.

He produced numerous works, often with other scholars, over many decades of the twentieth century. His most famous work is the series Remains of Old Latin, a four-volume edition of early Latin texts for the Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library

The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each...

, with a facing English translation.

1. Remains of Old Latin I: Ennius
   Ennius
   Quintus Ennius was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry. He was of Calabrian descent...
   
    and Caecilius
   Caecilius Statius
   Statius Caecilius, also known as Caecilius Statius was a Roman comic poet.A contemporary and intimate friend of Ennius, he was born in the territory of the Insubrian Gauls, probably in Mediolanum, and was probably taken as a prisoner to Rome , during the great Gallic war...
   
    (1935, revised 1956; ISBN 0-674-99324-1)
2. Remains of Old Latin II: Livius Andronicus
   Livius Andronicus
   Lucius Livius Andronicus , not to be confused with the later historian Livy, was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period. He began as an educator in the service of a noble family at Rome by translating Greek works into Latin, including Homer’s Odyssey. They were meant at...
   
   , Naevius
   Gnaeus Naevius
   Gnaeus Naevius was a Roman epic poet and dramatist of the Old Latin period. He had a notable literary career at Rome until his satiric comments delivered in comedy angered the Metelli family, one of whom was consul. After a sojourn in prison he recanted and was set free by the tribunes...
   
   , Pacuvius
   Pacuvius
   Marcus Pacuvius was the greatest of the tragic poets of ancient Rome prior to Lucius Accius.He was the nephew and pupil of Ennius, by whom Roman tragedy was first raised to a position of influence and dignity...
   
    and Accius
   Lucius Accius
   Lucius Accius , or Lucius Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. The son of a freedman, Accius was born at Pisaurum in Umbria, in 170 BC...
   
    (1936; ISBN 0-674-99347-0)
3. Remains of Old Latin III: Lucilius
   Gaius Lucilius
   Gaius Lucilius , the earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain, was a Roman citizen of the equestrian class, born at Suessa Aurunca in Campania.-The Problem of his birthdate:...
   
    and The Twelve Tables
   Twelve Tables
   The Law of the Twelve Tables was the ancient legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. The Law of the Twelve Tables formed the centrepiece of the constitution of the Roman Republic and the core of the mos maiorum...
   
   (1938, revised 1967; ISBN 0-674-99363-2)
4. Remains of Old Latin IV: Archaic inscriptions (1940; ISBN 0-674-99396-9)

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