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| Description | She isn't a perfectionist, everyone else is sloppy. You could be an archmage too if you took more care.
‘His sentence of “Wrong!” will not commonly be challenged; but a plea for mitigation will often be put in: “Won’t it stand?” “Is it quite wrong?” These pleas are best answered by pointing out that it is the best, the most usual, the most Latin Latinity at which we should aim; and that what requires apology, justification, or illustration, is always less desirable, and for beginners not desirable at all. To arguments like “I found it in Tacitus,” “But you’re not Tacitus” is a true and telling rejoinder.’ -Postgate, Sermo Latinus: a Short Guide to Latin Prose Composition |