Every member of this university - and every person who has any interest at all in literature - heard with grief that Professor Emeritus Robert Fagles passed away last week. The Daily Princetonian has recounted Fagles' accomplishments - including his ...(back to the article)
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Anon, you're right, this isn't really a big deal, but when my ability to read is questioned, my pride insists on getting involved: just google "prennius," and look at what comes up. It's not quite "No Trace Left Behind."
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@oops- not that this really matters, but it's the right way in the print edition also, so I'm guessing that it was the right way online all along.
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I didn't misread it - they fixed it.
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STOP USING PRETENTIOUS LATIN HEADLINES!
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@oops: The title does read "perennius." Perhaps you may have misread it?
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Refreshing piece, Mr. Carroll. Both you and Professor Katz (like Fleming before him) make it worth sifting through the tired, tedious pages of the Prince. Well done.
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he's not self-important 'cause he knows dead languages (which as one commenter pointed out, may not even be the case). it's his tone and attitude toward other fields of study.
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For the record, it's "perennius," not "prennius." Guess this is what happens when copy-editors aren't up on their dead languages.
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I actually really liked this articles. It reminded me of several reasons why I have often wished I had taken Latin and Greek. Sure there were a few outsize lines, but just because you yourself can't reasonably discuss Homer doesn't mean that anyone who can is "self-important."
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pretentious as usual, carroll.
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so self-important, brendan.
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Two articles down, and every line in each was self-righteous and poorly argued. If this is how the HUM sequence trains its writers to write, maybe there's a reason that it's not compulsory.
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