Monday, October 03, 2022
The Crown of Scholarship?
R.D. Dawe, Repertory of Conjectures on Aeschylus (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1965), p. 4:
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One reason why so much endeavour is spent on conjectural emendation is because it is surrounded by an aura artificially created by its own practitioners. Those who think that it constitutes the crown and summit of all scholarship have only to glance in the following pages to see what drunken angles that crown can assume.