Word: tacitus
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...requirements and in adjusting New Haven life to Repeal, explained that he wanted to get back to his other Yale work as Dunham Professor of Latin Language & Literature and master of Branford College. An Oxford-trained classicist of the old school, Professor Mendell is noted for his knowledge of Tacitus, his ability to translate the Epistles of Horace in the style of Ring Lardner, the age of his pipes, his soft-soled shoes, his unfailing politeness with miscreants. Neither retiring President Angell, now vacationing in Bermuda, nor President-elect Charles Seymour, who sat with him on a Versailles Commission...
...then studied law at Boston University, was long a part ner of William Morgan Butler, onetime (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. Now 65, punctual, precise, New England-ish, Guy Cox likes to fish, farm, browse through his favorite authors, who include Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Juvenal, Proust, Havelock Ellis...
...office of taster is venerable in history and cannot be despised by the strutting young scientificos of the present day and age. In ancient states a taster was more valued than a chief-of-staff. Tacitus, indeed, tells of empire-shaking deeds when the taster succumbed to the lure of Tammany tactics, and Montaigne accounts it the greatest of compliments that Henry IV of France dispensed with his taster when visiting at the essayist's chateau. But Montaigne was a humanist, and had not reduced his kitchen to a system of boilers, pulleys, chafing dishes and steam baths...
...what seems to Mr. Chase piffling scholarship, an "Albigensian crusade" against good teaching. A good deal of this is surely pure misunderstanding. There are as yet few signs that the present administration really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their lives to the adverb in Tacitus or to the importation of bananas into Brittany during the sixteenth century, and none that it wishes to get rid of teachers who might follow in the footsteps of James, Norton, Babbitt, and their peers...
...light-fingered romancer, Author Graves has dug carefully into a mine of authorities (Suetonius, Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Josephus, scores of others) for the outline and main incidents of his story. His good and scholarly friend Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (T. E. Lawrence) scanned the narrative for anachronisms, found none. Though I, Claudius abounds in murderous incidents, scandalous anecdotes. Author Graves can in almost every case quote classical scripture as his authority. Says he: "There is no main incident in the book...