Stephen Coombs

Quondam Balliolensis. Europaeus.

[Stephen Coombs @stephanuscoombs]

VOX TER CUPIDA e marginibus Evangeliorum
Pars prima PUER

Reddere quae nequeo, potero quae solvere nunquam
rogo remitte mille magna debita:
at quae pauca fero tamen accipe paupera dona:
inopsne saccus hordeaceos habet
quinque manu matris panes super igne paratos
...

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@gifford_head @Robin_C_Douglas However I can tolerate "O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, / Wie treu sind deine Blätter!"

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@gifford_head @Robin_C_Douglas Spoilt for me by "The People's Flag is puce and green, / a fleur-de-lis in aubergine." (Jules and Sandy.)

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@DrFrancisYoung A long time ago I wrote about a text of Priscillian:

"The Eucharistic Prayer in the Orthodox West: A Reappraisal of Its Ancient and Modern History, Peculiarities and Possibilities; with an Excursus, the Priscillian Tractatus XI an Illatio."

Classical?

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@cguyver Megaguyve.

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@llewelyn_morgan I look forward to reading about it!

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An appeal was made recently for enthusiasts to present their favourite classical texts. Here's mine:

My absolute favourite text must be Horace's Ode 12 in Book 4. No other poet could have expressed deep affection for a dead friend with such lightness of touch. The setting is ...

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@fendetestate @rfef Ga ga ga.

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@archi_tradition Spain, Portugal.

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@JackGMitchell @ArmandDAngour @TheHubCanada @PerfectAccentUK An old bugbear (not bagbear!) of mine here.
https://t.co/ZgQsgRV3dd
Answer.
https://t.co/tg42uO0DEI
"I don't know of any."

[Dr Neil Alexander Walker (𐐝𐐲𐑄𐐲𐑉𐑌-𐐺𐐫𐑉𐑌) @neilalexanderw1]

@stephanuscoombs I don't know of any, but I can imagine a path to that. The vowels are already quite close in RP [ˈb̥a̝ːɡ͡ɡ̊] vs. [ˈb̥ɐɡ͡ɡ̊]

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@llewelyn_morgan

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... be an imaginary one. The invitation asks for a gift of the sweet-smelling unguent associated equally with festivity and the tomb. "Even while you are aware of the black flames around you, Virgil, there's a place for silliness too." Astonishing and utterly compelling.

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Lovely to have a pint in the George Hotel Bridport 🍺😜#goodtobeback #supportlocal #realale

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@ratemyplatenow Brooooooooooooccoli? Agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain?

No use to neither man nor beast nor vowl.

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@OlaWikander ¡Espantoso!

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@Gda1238 So loathing is an option. Good-oh.
https://t.co/XmZirCZ8Kp

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I should not call more poor
the world of aural arts
if all the works of Britten,
anaemic and impure
yet so high in the charts,
had not come to be written.

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@Architectolder @SalamRazian Or seeing *him*? Latin mons, French mont are masculine. Not to mention St. Michael. - Unless everything beautiful is female, of course.

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@CatWorkers Cat in the manger.

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@niall_gooch Neither.