Charles Edwin Bennett (6 April 1858 – 2 May 1921) was an American classical scholar and the Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin at Cornell University.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Bennett graduated from Brown University in 1878 and also studied at Harvard (1881–1882) and in Germany (1882–1884).
His syntactical studies, notably various papers on the subjunctive, are based on a statistical examination of Latin texts and are marked by a fresh system of nomenclature; he ranks as one of the leaders of the New American School of syntacticians, who insist on a preliminary re-examination of all available data.
[1] Of great importance are his advocacy of quantitative reading of Latin verse and his Critique of Some Recent Subjunctive Theories in vol.
He wrote The Teaching of Greek and Latin in Secondary Schools (1900), with George P. Bristol, and The Latin language, a historical outline of its sounds inflections, and syntax (1907), with William Alexander Hammond, and translated The Characters of Theophrastus (1902),[2][1] and the Loeb Classical Library edition of the Odes and Epodes of Horace (1914).