> <snip>
> There is, I think, an ongoing Medieval Latin dictionary in hardcopy, which
> has reached somewhere about fascile T.
> <snip>
>
> You're thinking, unless I'm particularly badly out of date, of R E
Latham's
> *Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources*, in which he's
assisted
> by someone who (as a postgraduate) taught me, briefly, before opining that
I
> was mad. Fortunately others disageeed.
>
> Since I have Latham's much earlier *Revised Medieval Latin Word-List*, it
> would be nice at this point to report something useful in re Daemon. Alas,
> there's nothing save for 'demon', which is defined unhelpfully as an 'evil
> spirit' or (eccl.) as 'a pagan god'.
>
> Ho Hum.
>
> CW
> __________________________________________
>
> 'I might have known you'd choose the easy way'
> (Franz Kline's mother)
Teach me to box out of my league.
Who but Christopher?
Yeah, it was Latham I was thinking on.
I thunk I tot.
Incidentally, anyone going to be at the CCCP conference next Saturday?
Kent Johnson's chairing a panel and I'm trying to work out how to slip a
bowie knife past the body-scanners,
It's totally easy if there are two of you, but harder if you try it as a
singleton.
The Freemartin
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