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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Pity the Poor Interjection
Smaragdus, Liber in partibus Donati 15.1-2 (tr. Willard R. Trask):
Sad is the lot of the interjection, for of all the parts of speech it has the lowest place. There is none to praise it.
Partibus inferior iacet interiectio cunctis,
Ultima namque sedet et sine laude manet.