Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Astonishment
Joshua Whatmough, Poetic, Scientific and other Forms of Discourse (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956 = Sather Classical Lectures, 29), p. 95:
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But if an ancient author has some things which astonish us, our astonishment is as nothing compared with what the ancients would think of it, or the astonishment with which they would regard either our impudent criticisms of their writings or our attempts to write their languages and to rewrite their writings.
