Tuesday, April 22, 2014
A Wonderful Thing
Robert Hellenga, The Fall of a Sparrow (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998; rpt. 1999), p. 91:
From the same book, a misprint in the Sappho quotation on p. 98:
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It was a truly wonderful thing, he reminded himself, that a man could earn a living talking to young people about Homer and Ovid and Horace.Nice work if you can get it. I couldn't get it when I tried.
From the same book, a misprint in the Sappho quotation on p. 98:
λέπτον / δ' αὔτικα χπῶι πῦρ ὐπαδεδρόμηκεν.For χπῶι read χρῶι.
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