Volume 3, Number 11 · January 14, 1965
Letters
By Bernard F. Cataldo
In response to Private Poet
(November 5, 1964)
To the Editors:
On the assumption that a journal of your stature must emulate Calpurnia, even in the trifles of learning, I call attention to the following items. First in a recent issue (November 5) a review by a renowned poet used the phrase sub specie aeternitate. Second, in the current issue (December 3) a piece by a distinguished educator uses the word latifundiae.
Are the ablative and genitive now one case? Are the various genders in Italian and Latin now one?
Perhaps these linguistic horrors are the work of a printer's devil. Perhaps they show, as does this note, that a little learning is indeed a dangerous thing.
Bernard F. Cataldo
Philadelphia
Ouray aultfay—eds.
