Friday, March 29, 2024
Courage
R. Renehan, "Shackleton Bailey and the Editing of Latin Poetry: A Latin Classic,"
Classical Philology 83.4 (October, 1988) 311-328 (p. 312, n. 2):
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A fond fashion has arisen of attributing "courage" to an editor who prints departures from the vulgate, and I have seen the word used in a review in connection with the present edition. Let us have done with such language. The soldier who takes his bullet in the belly and not in the back is courageous; scholars with enough independence of thought to instruct a typesetter to print this word rather than that exhibit a different quality, which may or may not be a virtue depending upon the merits of the particular case.
