Comments: AS EVERY SCHOOLBOY KNOWS.

The irony's even better if you say "Tully" (since every schoolboy knows who you mean).

Posted by MMcM at February 27, 2005 12:38 PM

How delightful!

(And the promiscuity of linkery has reminded me that I've been wanting to read Robert K. Merton for a long time now).

Posted by elck at February 27, 2005 06:54 PM

Robert K. Merton is one of my heroes. I guarantee you'll enjoy On the Shoulders of Giants.

Posted by language hat at February 27, 2005 09:40 PM

But are these schoolboys so brilliant that they kno more than any fule?

Posted by Matt at February 28, 2005 07:13 AM

Stingy with the translations, eh? =)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Cic.+Ver.+5.169

Posted by Scott Hagaman at February 28, 2005 02:47 PM

Good point! The noted passage in Tully goes: "It is a crime to bind a Roman citizen; to scourge him is a wickedness; to put him to death is almost parricide. What shall I say of crucifying him?" (Here's the direct link to the Perseus translation.)

Posted by language hat at February 28, 2005 03:02 PM