Word: quintilian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Vansittart who wrote, but he was quoting not himself but Velleius Paterculus, a 1st-Century Roman historian. He added similar testimony from Tacitus, Seneca, Symmachus, Claudian, Nazarius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ennodius, Quintilian and Josephus. This battery of authorities punctuates Vansittart's latest book on Germany: Bones of Contention (Knopf; $2.75), which was published in Britain last March and appears in the U.S. this week...
...brought these two most rational persons, under no illusion about each other or their mutual position and commitments, to think of such an irrational marriage." The elder Santayana, one of twelve children, with the Spanish "dignity in humility," poor, meager, deaf, a painter, a law student, a quoter of Quintilian, solid and grey as the rocky heath of Avila where he used to walk with his young son George, consented when his wife returned to Boston with George and his half brother and half sisters. "How much in this was clearness of vision, how much was modesty, how much...