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Seminary of Classical Philology. On "Homo Homonis" in Plautus. Mr. A. W. Hodgman. Sever...
...THURSDAY.Seminary of Classical Philology. On "Homo Homonis" in Plautus. Mr. A. W. Hodgman. Sever...
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...addition to freshman, Webster's Unabridged would have contained fresh-woman; but such is not the case, and it would be unseemly in us to try to improve upon the Hindoos. Freshman must stand, and in using it we desire to be understood as referring to the genus fresh homo...
...would also be a uniformity which is at present sadly lacking in the language used in the catalogue. A correspondent of the Transcript thus sums up the inconsistency of the translator : "It is positively unpardonable that Ensign Man should stand unchanged, when it can be exactly translated by Signifier Homo. The translator neglects also to turn the given name Cotton into Gossipium, Penn into Stylus, Prince into Princeps, True into Verus, Clark into Scriba, Rest into Requies, Kinsman into Consanguineous, Oxenbridge into Bovepons; Greenlief into Viridfolium, etc., and he was doubtless utterly stumped by Nyot, Leverett, Zoheth, Gad, Elbtidge, Epes...