The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbott

ABBOTT, Frank Frost, American Latinist: b. Redding, Conn., 27 March 1860; graduated at Yale 1882; Latin tutor at Yale 1885–91; associate professor 1892; 1894, professor of Latin in the University of Chicago; 1901–02 annual professor of the American school of classical studies in Rome; becoming associate professor of classics in Princeton University; a frequent contributor to classical periodicals and associate editor of Classical Philology. He was written ‘A History of Roman Political Institutions’ (1901); ‘The Toledo Manuscript of the Germania of Tacitus’ (1903); ‘A History of Rome’ (1906); ‘Society and Politics in Ancient Rome’ (1909); ‘The Common People of Ancient Rome’ (1911); etc. He is vice-president of the American Philological Association.