Friday, November 17, 2023
Thanksgiving?
Ezra Pound, Instigations (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), p. 228:
If Pound had been educated in a British public school, perhaps he would not have mangled the quotation from Aeschylus, Agamemnon 160, so badly:
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I give thanks to Zeus ὅσις ποτ' ἐσὶν, that being an American, I have escaped the British public school.
Ζεύς, ὅστις ποτ᾽ ἐστίν...He probably misread the stigma ligature (sigma plus tau) in an old edition.
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