| 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...