Tuesday, March 05, 2019
Scholarly Perseverance
Aeschylus, Agamemnon. Edited with a Commentary by Eduard Fraenkel, Vol. I: Prolegomena, Text, Translation (1950; rpt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962), p. 58 (on Verrall):
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Unfortunately he had little patience and even less of that special gift of scholarly perseverance that enables a man to swallow vast clouds of dust in the faint hope that in the end his labour may be rewarded by a small grain of gold.
