tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post3867915237213062736..comments2023-04-05T08:04:07.514-04:00Comments on Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2009.02.12Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post-33272447616715342662009-02-09T12:50:00.000-05:002009-02-09T12:50:00.000-05:00US political correctness is a powerful force for c...US political correctness is a powerful force for censorship, but really what's so terrible about 'Amedeo Peyron, an Italian<BR/>scholar of Coptic, to Thomas Young "cleverly combines Italian flattery<BR/>with Latin incisiveness")'? The heirs of Cicero and the younger Pliny would be degenerate indeed if they did not know how to lay it on with a trowel, and any reader of Lucan and Tacitus knows how incisive Latin can be. Rather, we modern English-speakers should acknowledge with due embarrassment how bad we are at praise, and how feeble Latin apophthegms become in English translation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com