Word: kateudo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line in English poetry [TIME, Sept. 13]: the late eminent critic, George Saintsbury, plumped for Shakespeare's Hamlet line, "The rest is silence," as one of the two "jewels four words long" in all poetry. The other, of course (said Saintsbury), is Sappho's "Ego de mono, kateudo" [But I sleep alone...
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