I am of course much older than Rob Scott, but my experience was, agreeably, very different. I was taught Latin and Greek by a scholar who should have been the chairman of a university classics department but, because female, was instead the chairman of a secondary-school one.
I shall always remember her translating, without embarassment or resort to euphemism, lines from Catullus that even today would give offense to many if I reproduced them here outside "the decent obscurity of a learned language". John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
