Monday, 14 September 2009

Vegetables in classical literature

Some forms of scholarship, facilitated by electronic research tools, are not to be encouraged:

Silanus, Versio Latina Magonis frag. 41.1-3: parandi sunt boues nouelli, quadrati, grandibus membris, CORNibus proceris ac nigrantibus et robustis
Cato, De Agri Cultura 133.3: eo modo quoduis genus arborum facere poteris, uti radices bene haBEANt.
Cicero, Philippicae 10.12: Quod si ipsa res publica iudicaret aut si omne ius decretis eius statueretur, AntONIONe an Bruto legiones populi Romani adiudicaret?
Horace, Epistulae 1.18.74-5: ne dominus pueri pulchri caraeve puellae / munere te parvo BEET aut incommodus angat.
Horace, Ars Poetica 379-80: campestribus abstinet armis / indoctusque pilae discive troCHIVE quiescit
Vitruvius 9.8.4: aquarum expressiones auTOMATOpoetasque machinas multaque deliciarum genera
Juvenal, Saturae 6.87: inmemor illa domus et coniugis atque sororis / nil patriae indulsit, plorantisque improba natos / utque magis stuPEAS ludos Paridemque reliquit.
Silius Italicus 16.476: Theron, POTATOr aquae

3 comments:

Kallista said...

Sorry, when I first looked at this, it was more of a glance than a real investigative look.

But now I am laughing!

panjandrum said...

O Farrago, these are indeed your salad days.

Anonymous said...

wahaha