Word: pede
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...some recent articles in our exchanges: "The Cynicism of Culture," "The Influence of Doubt," "Tennyson's In Memoriam, "Tennyson's Sorrow," The Superstition of Composition," "Music among the Greeks," "Jeremy Taylor," "The Character of Banquo," and "Carlyle's Sartor Resartus." Our readers may form their judgment by these: "ex pede Herculem...
...understand, he has himself made various blunders, quite enough to relieve Mr. Allen, or any other experienced teacher and scholar, from caring a whit for what he says. Our space will only allow us to mention two. Mr. Allen has translated "standing on one foot" by stantem uno in pede, whereon Mr. Reiley pours out several vials of most superior wrath, and all to show that stantem altero pede is the only proper way; that alter and not unus is "one of two," and that the preposition is inadmissible. Now it happens that what is wanted here is not alter...
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