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Columba's Altus and the Abstrusa Glossary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

W. M. Lindsay
W. M. Lindsay
Affiliation:
The University, St. Andrews.
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Extract

In the 'nineties the Celtic philologist, Whitley Stokes, told us in Common-room, that he once awoke muttering an incomplete stanza:

Like an ogress making progress

Through the spare-ribs of a child.

Could anyone complete it for him ? A former Newdigate prizeman, after reflexion, produced this:

Stern endeavour will be ever

By some welcome find beguiled,

Like an ogress making progress

Through the spare-ribs of a child.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 17 , Issue 3-4 , July 1923 , pp. 197 - 199
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1923

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