Augustus Taber Murray

Augustus Taber Murray (1866–1940) was an American classical philologist and translator and a Quaker minister.

[1][2] Augustus Taber Murray was born in Manhattan on October 29, 1866.

from Haverford College in 1885 and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (with a dissertation on Aristophanes) in 1890, before undertaking further studies at Leipzig and Berlin.

[1] For the nascent Loeb Classical Library he translated the Odyssey (2 vols., 1919), the Iliad (2 vols., 1924), and the Private Orations of Demosthenes (4 vols., 1936–1939).

[1] Murray was a prominent Quaker, and in 1929 and 1930, having obtained leave from Stanford, he resided in Washington as pastor to President Hoover, his personal friend.