[B-Greek] Thomas Hardy, Liddell and Scott On the Completion of their Lexicon

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Wed Jul 25 11:44:03 EDT 2007



James Spinti wrote:

> Very nice. I had only heard the limerick by Johnson (I think it was):
>
> Scott knew Liddell,
> And Liddell knew less

Couldn't have been Johnson.  Too early.  Probably Jowett who was reputed to
have said something along the lines of


I'm Benjamin Jowett, the Master of Baliol College
I know everything that there is to know
And what I don't know isn't knowledge.

Jeffrey

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