Misunderstanding Greek and Latin in eighteenth-century Britain

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So phrases from the classics were a kind of 18th-century equivalent of memes, their key meaning being not the meaning of their surface text but the frisson of mutual recognition of the source material and the sense of belonging in a cultural community that had this canon?

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