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Anthony Grafton: Latin, 1 November 2001
Latin, or the Empire of a Sign: From the 16th to the 20th Centuries
by Françoise Waquet, translated by John Howe.
Verso, 346 pp., £20, July 2001,1 85984 615 7 Show More
by Françoise Waquet, translated by John Howe.
Verso, 346 pp., £20, July 2001,
“... there with capricious abandon, simply to annoy us, the children of future generations’. Thomas Hughes vividly revealed in Tom Brown’s Schooldays how Latin verses were composed, as boys desperately sewed shreds and patches drawn from the Gradus ad Parnassum into verses that could be scanned and more or less made sense. Even some great writers of ... ”