Tuesday, February 28, 2012
A Doctor's Degree
Erasmus, A Fish Diet, in The Colloquies of Erasmus, tr. Craig R. Thompson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965), pp. 312-357 (at 329):
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FISH-MONGER. On the other hand, you should have confidence in anyone with a doctor's degree.
BUTCHER. But among these I find some more ignorant and more absurd than those who are completely uneducated.
SALSAMENTARIUS. Caeterum quibus contigit titulus doctoris, his oportet fidere.
LANIO. Verum in his quoque comperio nonnullos multo rudiores ac stultiores illis, qui prorsus sunt illiterati.
