Notes & Asides

notes & asides

Dear Bill: I have had a delightful time absorbing your Miles Gone By. I did note in your book that the Printer’s Devil slipped in a typo on page 175. Anni horribili should be anni horribiles as the plural of annus horribilis. Different declensions. (In evidence of the pliancy, or perversity, of the classical Roman mind, “horrible” can also mean “wonderful” and “astonishing.”)

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notes & asides

Dear Bill: I have had a delightful time absorbing your Miles Gone By. I did note in your book that the Printer’s Devil slipped in a typo on page 175. Anni horribili should be anni horribiles as the plural of annus horribilis. Different declensions. (In evidence of the pliancy, or perversity, of the classical Roman mind, “horrible” can also mean “wonderful” and “astonishing.”)