Edward Parmelee Morris (17 September 1853 - 16 November 1938) was an American classicist.

He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, New York.^[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1874, then moved to Cincinnati where his father was living.^[2] On January 2, 1879, he married Charlotte Webster Humphrey; her father was the Reverend Z. M. Humphrey and a professor at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati.^[2] Humphrey and Morris had four children, Frances Humphrey (born 1880), Edward (born 1885), Margaret (born 1886), and Humphrey (born 1987).^[2] Edward died in infancy. Frances and Margaret both attended Bryn Mawr College.^[2] Morris died on November 16, 1938, in New York City.^[1]

From 1876 to 1877, he taught Latin and history at Purdue College and from 1877 to 1879 he taught Latin and mathematics at Lake Forest College.^[3] From 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.^[4][2] In 1884, he became the Massachusetts Professor of Latin Language and Literature^[5][4] at Williams College and was first allowed a year's leave of absence,^[2] which he spent the universities of Leipzig and Jena.^[1] He returned to Yale as a professor of the Latin language and literature in 1891.^[1] He became a significant influence on the work of Arthur Leslie Wheeler, who became Sather Professor at Princeton.^[6]

Morris received an L.H.D. from Williams in 1904 and a Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1909,^[4] on the inauguration of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.^[2]

Some of his notable books are:^[7]

• The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus^[8]
• The Mostellaria of Plautus; with explanatory notes
• On principles and methods in Latin syntax
• On the sentence-question in Plautus and Terence
• The study of Latin in the preparatory course