https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2015/03/ ... or-jowett/
I have seen the same story, but there the complaint was that Jowett accented the word incorrectly. Another quote from Housman:“The Regius Professor of Greek throughout Housman’s time was Jowett, and from the single lecture of Jowett’s which he attended, Housman came away disgusted by the Professor’s disregard for the niceties of scholarship.”
-A.S.F. Gow, A.E. Housman: A Sketch (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press) p.5
“The story is current in Oxford, I am told, that the particular offense of the Regius Professor was a false quantity, that cardinal crime of English tradition, the pronunciation of ἀκριβῶς, which from the English habit of applying Latin rules to Greek pronunciation yielded a monstrosity…”
-G. L. Hendrickson, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 58, No. 4 (1937), pp. 463
The above link also include's Hylander's poem from the other thread:“Jowett’s Plato: the best translation of a Greek philosopher which has ever been executed by a person who understood neither philosophy nor Greek.”
-C.O. Brink, English Classical Scholarship (Cambridge: James Clarke, 1986), p. 130
http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.co ... greek.htmlHere come I, my name is Jowett.
All there is to know I know it.
I am Master of this College,
What I don’t know isn’t knowledge!
Alfred North Whitehead's opinion:
http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.co ... holar.htmlIt being forty years since I read Greek fluently I now take a Loeb translation with the English on a parallel page, but with the help of Liddell and Scott's lexicon I can generally tell where old Jowett is making a fool of himself, which is about every other sentence....
Hugh Lloyd-Jones:
There are many other quotes along the same lines, especially at Laudator Temporis Acti.Jowett defined a scholar as a man who read Thucydides with his feet on the mantlepiece; by that test he was a scholar, scarcely by any other.