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...verse-its deft rendering into English is typical of Latinist Arrowsmith's translation-is. of course, sheer nonsense. The Satyricon is as impure and guileful as anything in literature, and Petronius was mocking Roman bluenoses when he pretended to deny it. But the great gaiety of the work, and the sharpness with which Petronius satirizes esthetes, pedants, bad poets, the nouveau riche and the rapacious poor, lift this gutter odyssey well above the merely pornographic. The fragment that remains of the original huge manuscript is a mixture of prose, poetry and puns, fustian rhetoric and sweaty argot...
Mary was far from the average Vassar girl who just wanted to beat Emily to the Post. She set herself apart from both the socially conscious and the "blue-eyed Republican girls" by a romantic Royalism and a devotion to the past. She was a Latinist and knew more about St. Thomas Aquinas than about the contemporary Thomas (Norman) for whom many of the faculty members cast their votes. Outwardly, there was nothing much to set her apart from the conventionally unconventionalVassar girls who, on graduation, shec their pearls and Brooks sweaters anc swarm down the Hudson to arrive, after...
Hearing that a man in Montana was bragging about the antiquity of his razor, a 146-year-old English blade, Dr. Allan Chester Johnson, Princeton Latinist, announced that he was trimming his beard with a stone razor he found in 1910 under the bathroom window of the palace of King Minos of Crete, where it was first used circa 2500 B.C. Said Dr. Johnson: "It has a marvelous edge...
...very imperfect knowledge of the character of the Allied Commander. Marshal Foch's book, which in the French edition bears the more precise title of Memoirs to Assist the History of the War, was to be his Apologia. And Marshal Foch, as a devout Catholic and a Latinist, knew that an apologia is not an apology but a defense. Therefore he penned a precise, colorless, painfully accurate account of what he had done from the outbreak of the War until the Allied armies of occupation seized the Rhine bridgeheads...
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