Sunday, October 22, 2017
The Learned and the Foolish
Quintilian 10.7.22 (tr. Donald A. Russell):
If you quote this saying of Quintilian as it appears in the Routledge Dictionary, you will truly be exposed as illiterate.
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Those who want to seem learned to the foolish seem fools to the learned.The Latin is mangled in Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings (New York: Routledge, 2005), p. 97:
qui stultis videri eruditi volunt, stulti eruditis videntur.
If you quote this saying of Quintilian as it appears in the Routledge Dictionary, you will truly be exposed as illiterate.
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