Arrian on kings and falsehood

ἀλλ’ ἐμοὶ Πτολεμαῖός τε καὶ Ἀριστόβουλος πιστότεροι ἔδοξαν ἐς τὴν ἀφήγησιν, ὁ μὲν ὅτι συνεστράτευσε βασιλεῖ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ, Ἀριστόβουλος, Πτολεμαῖοςδὲ πρὸς τῷ ξυστρατεῦσαι ὅτι καὶ αὐτῷ βασιλεῖ ὄντι αἰσχρότερον ἤ τῳ ἄλλῳ ψεύσασθαι ἦν·

Instead, both Ptolemy and Aristoboulos seemed to me to more trustworthy for the narrative: the latter because he campaigned with king Alexander - Aristoboulos - and, the former, Ptolemy, because, in addition to having campaigned in that way, it was more shameful for him to lie than for any other, because he was a king himself.

Arrian, Alexandri Anabasis Prologue 2.

Isocrates on Blogging

From 1 (Ad Demonicum) 42 (emphasis added):

'Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you, and in either case do not expose your heart to others; for it were strange to hide away one's treasure in the house, and yet walk about laying bare one's feelings to the world.'

A scathing review

Among notorious reviews there is that of E. Lobel's about Edmonds' first volume of his Loeb edition of the Greek Lyric Poets. It is entitled 'Dyra Graeca' and features such turns of phrase as 'so many hundreds of novelties', 'its most enlivening characteristics', and 'powers of divination not ordinarily vouchsafed to humanity'.

See CR 1922, p. 120.

Oi, redactor, leave that scalpel at home!

A friend, who submitted her thesis but two days ago (yay!), passes on the following maxim:

Do not do to a text what you would not do to a person.