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Re: Nevil Maskelyne - "Credat Iudaeus Apella"
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2004 Jul 17, 17:40 GMT
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2004 Jul 17, 17:40 GMT
Hello, I am sitting in Paris for several weeks and reading silently your discussions in the list after a long spell of my unplanned relegation. But as a Latinist, I can add something to George's citation from Gould on the catastrophical landfall of the fleet near Scilly: "Credat Iudaeus Apella" was the old Roman anti-semitic proverb, with the sense "Only a credulous Jew takes it as granted, we sober men can forget it". Therefore, Gould anticipates George's position in this issue. I hope that after some days, I will send something more interesting from Paris. Kalivoda