Friday, November 21, 2025

 

A Latin Sentence

The last words of E.J. Kenney (1924-2019), The Classical Text: Aspects of Editing in the Age of the Printed Book (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), p. 174, are:
Coartatio Erroris Principium Sapientiae
The words have a proverbial ring, but I can't find a source. In English:
The restriction of error is the beginning of wisdom.
Coartatio literally = tightening, narrowing.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 10:22 AM


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