classicist

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By the time he died in a Los Angeles hotel in 1935 — at 33, fatally wounded by his own gun — the classicist Milman Parry had accomplished more than academics twice his age ever dream of.

From New York Times

The academy took a pass on the lot of them in the rap album category, instead celebrating classicists nearly twice their age.

From Los Angeles Times

McDaniel, who was not the only classicist to question Hannity’s “perplexing” Latin, translated Hannity’s Latin text as “Let’s live or he … passes away from America for the detriment of a free man”.

From The Guardian

“Dark Lane” shows Drake songs at various developmental points — full-fledged experiments in a range of regional and microscene styles, half-cooked ideas from old projects, classicist exercises, formal rhymes, informal rhymes.

From New York Times

Her parents were remote figures, as was the custom of the time for her demographic, but luckily she had a British governess, Katie Wray, who happened to be a classicist.

From New York Times