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Croker has favoured us with some Greek of his own. "At the altar," says Dr. Johnson, "I recommended my th ph." An attempt was made to vindicate this blunder by quoting a grossly corrupt passage from the Iketides of Euripides bathi kai antiason gonaton, epi kheira balousa, teknon te thnaton komisai demas. The true reading, as every scholar knows, is teknon, tethneoton komisai demas.
Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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