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In Lexicographos: Another Heresy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
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MR. W. F. Witton's reconsiderations of grammatical rules, ‘invented’, as he suggests, ‘by some unimaginative medieval scholar’, must be welcome to all teachers and students of the classics. Modern readers, both in schoolroom and in lecture-hall, are less ready to exploit the ambiguities of ‘the exception proves the rule’ than were the medieval Schoolmen, and a reluctance to accept arbitrary laws without examining the credentials of the legislator is one of the more healthy symptoms of this hypercritical and sometimes anarchical age.
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page 158 note 3 Stephanus connects the Latin gelu gelidus, i.e. the brightness of frost and later coldness. Stephanus has much more support for the brightness theory.
page 158 note 4 ll. 1175 sq.
page 159 note 1 A gloss in Hesychius brings out that both ἄνθος and γελα̃ν were first named from one strangely similar external characteristic: γελεĩν . . λάμπειν, ἀνθεĩν. Of course I am not denying that γελα̃ν often means to laugh. My point is that that meaning is only secondary and derivative to the brightness concept.