Thursday, March 23, 2023
A Work of Reference
Ronald Syme, "Missing Persons III," in his Roman Papers, II (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), pp. 530-540 (at 540):
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What one looks for in a work of reference is the primary evidence, complete and on clear record. There is no call for long disquisitions or doxology. By contrast, the scholarship of the recent age all too often allows the facts to be choked in verbiage or sunk in bibliography.
