From the Classics List (00/03/07) in reply to Richard  Thomas.
 Re: Ad hominem uel argumentum (was Parturient Montes (was Aipolic vs bucolic) 
My  hope for dialogue about the Bucolics has elicited, I regret to see, an ad hominem reply by Richard Thomas, which obfuscates the reality of scholarly erasure  [BMCR 00.10.19] by resorting to an argument ad hominem: a significant book never reviewed because a reviewer became overwhelmed by a momentous displacement in his personal life, to say nothing of the transformations undergone by the journal at the time.

Nescio quid maius cur non speremus ....?
Claudite iam riuos ....!
Ite domum, saturae...