Laudator Temporis Acti

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.89.4 (tr. Earnest Cary):

For many others by living among barbarians have in a short time forgotten all their Greek heritage, so that they neither speak the Greek language nor observe the customs of the Greeks nor acknowledge the same gods nor have the same equitable laws (by which most of all the spirit of the Greeks differs from that of the barbarians) nor agree with them in anything else whatever that relates to the ordinary intercourse of life. Those Achaeans who are settled near the Euxine sea are a sufficient proof of my contention; for, though originally Eleans, of a nation the most Greek of any, they are now the most savage of all barbarians.

ἐπεὶ ἄλλοι γε συχνοὶ ἐν βαρβάροις οἰκοῦντες ὀλίγου χρόνου διελθόντος ἅπαν τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν ἀπέμαθον, ὡς μήτε φωνὴν Ἑλλάδα φθέγγεσθαι, μήτε ἐπιτηδεύμασιν Ελλήνων χρῆσθαι, μήτε θεοὺς τοὺς αὐτοὺς νομίζειν, μήτε νόμους τοὺς ἐπιεικεῖς, ᾧ μάλιστα διαλλάσσει φύσις Ἑλλὰς βαρβάρου, μήτε τῶν ἄλλων συμβολαίων μηδ' ὁτιοῦν. ἀποχρῶσι δὲ τὸν λόγον τόνδε ὡς ἀληθῆ εἶναι Ἀχαιῶν οἱ περὶ τὸν Πόντον ᾠκημένοι τεκμηριῶσαι, Ἠλείων μὲν ἐκ τοῦ Ἑλληνικωτάτου γενόμενοι, βαρβάρων δὲ συμπάντων τῶν νῦν ὄντες ἀγριώτατοι.

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There is no entry for Earnest Cary in Ward W. Briggs, Jr., ed., Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994) or in the Database of Classical Scholars. See Harvard College, Class of 1900, Secretary's Eleventh Report: 1950 (Cambridge: Privately Printed for the Class by the Crimson Printing Company, [1950]), pp. 117-118:

EARNEST CARY

Born February 25, 1879, in Beemer, Nebraska. Parents: James Richardson Cary and Mary Ann (Matthews) Cary. Prepared at Neligh High School and Gates Academy, Neligh, Nebraska. Degrees: A.B., 1900; A.M., 1901; Ph.D., 1903; A.B., (Gates College), 1898. Occupation: translator. Address: 5 Hancock St., Boston, Massachusetts.

From the A.B. degree I went right on to an A.M. in 1901 and a Ph.D. (in Classics) in 1903. There followed a year of study and travel in Europe, thanks to a traveling fellowship. Then, instead of taking up teaching at once, I spent a couple of years as private assistant to Prof. John Williams White of the Greek department at Harvard, an occupation so congenial that I renewed the relationship for another two years a decade later. As by-products of my work with him I published three short monographs dealing with the manuscripts of Aristophanes.

In my career as a teacher of Greek and Latin I played the part of the proverbial rolling stone. Beginning with Harvard and Radcliffe, I then wandered to Smith, Princeton, Trinity and Dartmouth in turn, and finally, for the climax, back to Harvard once more. For a number of years now I have been on the retired list, devoting myself chiefly to the translation of Dionysius.

I have contributed 16 volumes to the Loeb Classical Library, a joint enterprise of English and American Classical scholars offering an improved text and parallel-page translation of all the important Greek and Roman authors now extant. I have been responsible in this series for two histories of Rome by ancient Greek authors, that of Dio Cassius (in 9 vols., 1914-17), and that of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (in 7 vols., 1937-50). The series is published jointly by William Heinemann, London, and the Harvard University Press.

The topic of his Harvard Ph.D. dissertation was De Aristophanis Avium apud Suidam reliquiis.

An Earnest Cary died in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1959, probably the same person, but I can't be certain.

Here is a list of his articles and reviews (completeness aimed at but not guaranteed):

• Earnest Cary, "Victorius and Codex Γ of Aristophanes," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 37 (1906) 199-216
• Earnest Cary, review of J. van Leeuwen, Aristophanis Ecclesiazusae (Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1905), in Classical Philology 1.4 (October, 1906) 418-419
• Earnest Cary, "The Manuscript Tradition of the Acharnenses," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 18 (1907) 157-211
• Earnest Cary, review of J. van Leeuwen, Aristophanis Pax (Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1906), in Classical Philology 4.1 (January, 1909) 108-109
• Earnest Cary, review of W.J.M. Starkie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes (London: Macmillan, 1909), in Classical Philology 5.3 (July, 1910) 387-389
• John Williams White† and Earnest Cary, "Collations of the Manuscripts of Aristophanes' Aves," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 29 (1918) 77-131
• John Williams White† and Earnest Cary, "Collations of the Manuscripts of Aristophanes' Vespae: Part II," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 30 (1919) 1-35