Britain s foremost classicist, GILBERT MURRAY,is famous for his translations of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, and equally for his inspired teaching at Oxford, where for a quarter of a century he was Regius Professor of Greek. In 1918 he delivered the Presidential Address to the Classical Association, a paper which under the title “Religio Grammatici" has been widely reprinted. In 1954, in his eighty-ninth year, he spoke to them again, and the essay which follows is drawn from his address.