Ettore Pais (27 July 1856, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy – 1939, Rome) was an ancient historian,[1] Latin epigrapher, and an Italian politician.
After spending some years in Sardinia, he published La Sardegna prima del dominio romano in 1881.
[4] That same year he studied at Berlin with Theodor Mommsen and the two collaborated on the fifth volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum that was published in 1884.
Pais studied as a visiting scholar at leading universities around the world and received many honorary degrees, including those granted to him by the following: professor of history and Roman law from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, honorary degrees at Oxford, Chicago and Paris.
He taught courses in Paris at the Sorbonne, in Bucharest, Prague, Madrid, Barcelona, Boston, Cambridge, New York, and Chicago.