Hi all, it looks like the second volume of the OLS is finally about to be released within the week (the ‘estimated time’ label at OUP has just changed to ‘published 31 March 2021’):
I’m wondering whether there’s some sort of informal race between Oxford and Cambridge here, like their boat race (but this time, racing to publish leading reference materials)… Oxford wearing the Latin colours, with their Oxford Latin dictionary and now their completed Oxford Latin syntax; Cambridge wearing the Greek colours, with their Cambridge grammar of classical Greek and now close to finishing the Cambridge Greek lexicon…
Thanks for the heads-up Chad.
Yes it’s a shame that Oxford and Cambridge don’t cooperate more. Cambridge has trouble throwing off its provincialism. But what unites them here is that the Oxford Latin syntax and the Cambridge grammar of classical Greek are neither Oxonian nor Cantabrigian but are both quintessentially Dutch.
Samuel Pepys in 1667, in the aftermath of de Ruyter’s raid up the Thames and his hijacking of the English flagship: ”Thus in all things, in wisdom, courage, force, knowledge of our own streams, and success, the Dutch have the best of us, and do end the war with victory on their side.”