Epixiphus

PhD student in Late Latin Literature. Towards an Erasmian humanism and ancient mysticism for postmodernity. Latine; Ἑλληνιστί.

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Mirabile cognitu! I’ve visited the shrine of St Bede at Durham Cathedral many a time when I venture south of the border (he is a special devotion of mine). Only today did I realise his tomb bears a hexameter!

HAC SVNT IN FOSSA BÆDÆ VENERABILIS OSSA

#wildhexameters

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@PhiloCrocodile Almost as good as Scotland

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@Rux_Dacoromana Spectacular. I see Mel Gibson in Hamlet, ha!

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@PhiloCrocodile Where’s Aurelian when you need him: nam idem Aurelianus porcinam carnem Populo Romano distribuit quae hodieque diuiditur (HA Aur. 35.2)

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@theo_nash To this day I’ve hardly read a word of (unadapted) Aristophanes…! Not my area or time period whatsoever, but I’ve been meaning to rectify this for some time

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@AntigoneJournal Professor Domifactus(?) embodied ‘supercilium’ in all its senses…!

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@classicspilled En! Virginia dat quintam

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@PhiloCrocodile

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@AntigoneJournal I’ve been thinking lately that we who want to defend true scholarship against AI need some kind of personalised ‘code’ or ‘fingerprint’ to include in acknowledgements. Like a self-written couplet of Latin verse incorporating Greek words or something similarly hard to replicate.

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@ABralder @PlaidBarbarian @PhiloCrocodile @miserabiliter ‘The acquisition of knowledge needs no such justification: its true sanction is a much simpler affair, and inherent in itself.’ - A.E. Housman, Criticus Maximus Ipse.

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@ABralder @PlaidBarbarian @PhiloCrocodile @miserabiliter But you must admit you can’t compare the most studied and copied text in human history to, say, Euripides’ plays.

‘Single copy’, too, is misleading. Many ancient texts have one fairly ancient archetype that exists. But that’s not how text crit works.

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@DrMichaelBonner Glad to find a fellow Juditha Triumphans enjoyer…

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Now that it’s actually Michaelmas, it feels like the academic year has well and truly begun! Current preoccupations: collating manuscripts, reading Ovid’s Fasti (nearly finished), and dipping a slightly nervous toe into Musaeus’ Hero and Leander.

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Scenes from the traditional Latin Mass for St. Michael’s feast, celebrated at St. Michael’s altar in the Vatican this morning.

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@SkripZack https://t.co/eCfI1n0rkT

This is a really good resource for it. Thanks @DCComm!

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@ArmandDAngour @passienus Romam Vergilii ex libris haurire Quirites
ne credas ueniens: libant tantum epulo

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@ArmandDAngour And quite possibly a wry smirk from Maecenas as he watches for Augustus’ reaction…!

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@Stefftaving So, in a certain ironic sense, our scope of understanding is bigger and easier than every in history, and yet I think we actually (as a collective culture in the West) probably have the most confined and narrow vision of life than ever before. 3/

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@Stefftaving In the odd few centuries between ‘Rome’ and Carolus et al., there was still at least a Christian referent from antiquity for thinking, writing, and creating. I think the problem today is we have lost both the Christian and the Classical as real cultural touchstones. 2/