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Jun. 17th, 2009

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I'm still reading Isidore's Etymologies off and on. Here he is defending the inaccuracies of previous authors in language that could apply to him:

Unde nec historicos nec commentatores varia dicentes imperite condemnare debemus, quia antiquitas ipsa creavit errorem.
Therefore we ought to rashly condemn neither historians nor commentators saying various things, because antiquity itself has created the error.
(XV.i.2.)


When I started reading Isidore, I wasn't expecting the amount of personal respect I've gained for him.

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