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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Curculio 6: Two Adjectives in Seneca’s Agamemnon
How’s that for a boring title? As a continuation of my experiment with publishing original scholarship on this site, I have just uploaded an eight-page PDF containing two conjectures on the text of Seneca’s Agamemnon, titled as above (link). (I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture: Plays, Curculio: Classics, Curculio: Latin, Latin Literature
Tagged Roman drama, Seneca the Younger
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Curculio 5: Worst. Endearment. Ever.
Peter Davidson’s Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660 (Oxford, 1998) includes a rather dull love-poem (number 36) by “T.C.”, most likely Thomas Cary, “Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles I” (516). The untitled poetic dialogue … Continue reading
Posted in Curculio: English, English Literature, Etymology, Orbilius
Tagged Peloponnese, Thomas Cary
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“Bacon and Eggs”
Laudator Temporis Acti quotes an amusing poem from 1931 by A. P. Herbert on the British fondness for bacon and eggs. There is an equally-amusing country song by the Lovett Sisters saying much the same about Americans in 1954. Here … Continue reading
Walter Scott Anagrammatized
Laudator Temporis Acti has an interesting post on Sir Walter Scott’s library. If you haven’t already read it, go and do so before continuing. Done? OK, let’s continue. I was naturally curious about the anagram, wondering how Scott’s library motto, … Continue reading
Posted in English Literature
Tagged Anagrams, Latin Mottos, Laudator Temporis Acti, Libraries, Walter Scott
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Announcement: Juvenal Reformatted
Some time between 1998 and 2000 – I really should have kept better records – I uploaded a complete on-line text of Juvenal’s Satires, with brief apparatus criticus and some original conjectures. Though it has not been updated since (I … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Critical Texts, Latin Literature
Tagged Juvenal, Satire, Textual Criticism
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