Comments for Curculio

Comment on Truer Today, But Already True Then by John Cowan

John Cowan — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:20:05 +0000

As it happens, I just reread L. Sprague de Camp’s historical novel The Bronze God of Rhodes, about the life of Chares of Lindos. Dikaiarchos figures as one of Chares’ companions on a trip to Egypt made in an attempt to persuade Ptolemy I to lift the siege, and mentions that he has written this book.

Comment on Best Name for the Next Pope? by Linus Cletus Clement

Linus Cletus Clement — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:47:55 +0000

Sixtus V just sounds … wrong. Like “jumbo shrimp” or something.

Comment on The Other Heraclitus by H. Fleming

H. Fleming — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:06:37 +0000

I don’t read ancient Greek, but even in translation this is lovely; thank you for posting it. I found your posting via Callimachus, William Cory, and Christopher Hitchens, who quoted Cory’s rhymed paraphrase of Callimachus’s verse on Heraclitus in his “Mortality.” Callimachus asked that Pluto (Hades) not lay a hand on his “Halicarnassian guest’s” “nightingales”; I gather this is the only one to survive. Thank you again for sharing its song with all of us on the Internet.

Comment on Callimachus on Heraclitus by Maurice Sendak | Early Years: Nick

Maurice Sendak | Early Years: Nick — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:25:57 +0000

[...] are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake” as one poet-translator put it, after Callimachus. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. ← [...]

Comment on How Original Is This? by Dave Reichert

Dave Reichert — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:42:32 +0000

This is not a novel idea. Throughout the world these are know as ‘bed and breakfast’ hotel or cottages. Most of these one-room hotels include at least breakfast (usually cooked by the owner). If you google bed and breakfast, you’ll get a much bigger list of possibilities.

Comment on Worst Classical Typos by IngKuebel

IngKuebel — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:19:57 +0000

I learned Latin long ago, and remember the sentence this way:
Quo usque tandem abuteris patientiam nostram.
Utor, uti, usus sum - being a verbum deponens (it lost its active form), as far as I remember.
I was not really successful in finding that in the internet.

Comment on Testimonial by Don

Don — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:36:36 +0000

I have done that with several cellular phones, but none of them recovered, even after being dropped into a jar of dry rice overnight :-(. Glad to hear that USB drives are less prissy.

Comment on Seneca Commentaries by Mark Davies

Mark Davies — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:15:50 +0000

Dear Michael,

I have written a commentary on the letters of book 4 of Seneca’s Epistles as a PhD thesis at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. It has been provisionally accepted for publication by Brill. I’m now working on editing it from a thesis to a book.

Regards,

Mark Davies

Comment on Aphorism of the Day by Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:07:53 +0000

Thank you for providing some of the better scholia of Gomez Davila, some of his other writings he is a reactionary Catholic.

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Katelyn Marie — Thu, 26 May 2011 23:35:28 +0000

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