Denis Feeney

Denis Feeney is a professor of classics and Latin at Princeton.

Letter

Editorial Lapse

21 February 2008

A crucial adverb was dropped from a sentence in my review of Mary Beard’s The Roman Triumph (LRB, 21 February). ‘No Latin literary texts survive intact before Plautus,’ I remarked, but the word ‘regularly’ disappeared from the next part of the sentence: ‘so his comedies are regularly as far back in time as we can go in excavating Roman customs and attitudes.’ I would certainly not claim...

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