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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.
Indeed without this emendation it would not be easy to construe the words, even if thnaton could bear the meaning which Mr. Croker ascribes to it without imminent danger of a flogging. Mr. Croker has also given us a specimen of his skill in translating Latin. Johnson wrote a note in which he consulted his friend, Dr. Lawrence, on the propriety of losing some blood.
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