Alfred Ernout [SEP] place of death
Alfred Ernout
Alfred Ernout (; Lille, 30 October 1879 – Paris, 16 June 1973) was a French philologist, specialized in the Latin language. 
Biography.
Ernout began studying classical philology in Lille and in 1901 finished first at the "agrégation de grammaire" (a civil service exam for Latin teachers). In 1908, he defended his doctoral thesis on dialectical elements and the passive voice in the Latin of the Republican period. After teaching at the Lycée du Troyes in 1908 and the university of Lille in
volumes of the Collection des universités de France, bilingual editions of Greek and Latin classics commonly known simply as "Budé" after the association, were published in 1920: in the Greek series, the "Hippias Minor" of Plato, translated by Maurice Croiset, with a yellow cover and the logo of an aryballos in the form of an owl, representing Athena's owl, and shortly afterwards in the Latin series, the "De rerum natura" of Lucretius, translated by Alfred Ernout, with a red cover and the