“Unde sit infamis, quare male fortibus undis Salmacis enervet tactosque remolliat artus, discite causa latet, vis est notissima fontis” Ovid, Met. 4.285-7

My Lords and Gentlemen, I have again annoyed the proponents of Wokery. I am seemingly unable to put pen to paper without being accused of the Sin of Slumbering. You will recall that at the front of my last short essay, I cited a short passage from that most amusing and saucy author, to wit,  Geoffrey […]

“תנשק לי את התחת”

My Lords and Gentlemen, I was asked by Lord H_____ at Wills’s yesterday afternoon why these short essays are headed with quotations from long dead authors, often in the Classical languages. I do so to ensure that no man may presume to imitate my erudition without understanding at least one sentence of the learned languages1It […]