who claimed if he had not become so great the city would lack two useful boons
our pounding pestles and our stirring spoons. I’m amazed in music he is such a swine. His class mates at school say all the time he’d tune his strings in the Dorian way,
unwilling to find out how he might play a different mode. His teacher grew stern and sent him away, “This boy will not learn. The Dorian style is all he will play, and when he does he expects you to pay.”
Here, look at this lot. I haven’t brought out
all of them.
I can’t carry all of mine. By god, I need to take a shit!
What is this?
Oracles.
All of them?
Are you surprised? By god, I’ve got a chest jammed full of them.
Frederick William Hall (1865–1948) was a classical scholar and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Together with William Martin Geldart, he produced the Oxford Classical Text of several authors. Hall was a careful editor known for his thorough collation of manuscripts and his conservative approach to textual criticism.
The Hall–Geldart editions in the Oxford Classical Texts series provide reliable critical texts with selective apparatus criticus. The OCT series, established in 1894 as the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, aims to present the best available Greek and Latin texts in a format suitable for both scholarly use and teaching. Each volume provides a clean text with the most significant manuscript variants recorded at the foot of each page.
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