Wednesday, March 21, 2018

 

Misreading

James Willis (1925-2014), Latin Textual Criticism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972 = Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, 61), p. 65:
The misreading of cl as d produces some remarkable results in Latin texts....I once heard that a modern Protestant editor of a collection of papal letters made one of them begin with Solita apostolicae sedis dementia....



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