Friday, April 17, 2020

 

Everyone's a Critic

Martial 1.3.5-6 (tr. D.R. Shackleton Bailey, with his note):
Nowhere are sniffs more emphatic. Young men, old men,
boys—they all have noses like a rhino.a

a Cf. "turn up one's nose at."

maiores nusquam rhonchi: iuvenesque senesque
    et pueri nasum rhinocerotis habent.



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