Word: manilius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coined by the scholar and poet A. E. Housman in 1903 when, in the preface to his edition of the [Roman poet and] astronomer Manilius, he described critics of a certain type, as ". . . gentlemen who use manuscripts as drunkards use lampposts-not to light them on their way but to dissimulate their instability...