Word: tantum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...17th century dean, Dr. John Fell, whose reputation survives in one lethal quotation. He once threatened Poet Thomas Brown with university expulsion, promised to rescind the order if Brown could deliver an impromptu translation of Martial's 32nd Epigram ("Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te"). Brown's translation...