"Caveat Emptor"

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 4 17:58:25 EDT 1999


At 2:26 PM -0700 8/4/99, Daniel L Christiansen wrote:
>hO WNHTHS BLEPESQW
>
>I was wondering why the Latin phrase caught on, but the Greek did not.
>Now that I look at it, I don't wonder, anymore.  "Caveat emptor" has a
>much nicer ring to it.

Or one might say that familiarity with the Latin phrase breeds contempt
with the unfamiliar Greek.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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