Word: yclept
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity). One day I received a notification commonly yclept a summons. Veni, vidi, vici. The assembled Faculty received me with uncovered heads. The chairman of the returning board bored me with an address three hours long. He alluded in feeling terms to the evidence contained in my Latin paper that I spent my Sundays in profitable conversation, - probably...