Yes, I am that guilty party.
savaged by the years, damaged goods.
Time to say goodbye, but that the
too kindly flesh bids me stay
a little while, shuffling my winter
way among the autumn leaves. …
I’m not quite as old as was Bruce (91) when he wrote that.
Education at a posh Catholic school in 1946-50 gave grounding in Latin and Greek. Retirement in 2003 resumed hard work in both subjects, with the Open University, completing their ‘advanced’ courses with success.
Textkit cropped up the other day when I was puzzled by ‘ungulata’ in Comenius’s Orbis (XII), which is ‘translated’ curiously in the 1672 third London edition. Someone here had spotted an edition with it corrected to ‘angulata’- spot on! I look forward to joining that discussion.
Another recent Latin thing was spotting an actual error in the venerable Lewis & Short dictionary: ‘angulatus’ is very rare, and the only reference given is to Cicero’s De Natura Deorum. 1.44 is given, and it should be 1.66. The error goes right back to Andrews, or maybe there has been a re-numbering.
Well, there it is, as the prince says in ‘Amadeus’.