Commentary
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (IAP 1976;
1984), Henry Fitzcotton, a burlesque called A New and Accurate Translation
of the First Book of Homer’s Iliad (Dublin 1748), attacking ‘the
dreadful state of slavery under stupid tyrants who ... make their pupils
spend many of their valuable years wholly in getting by heart a parcel
of amo’s and tupto’s ... ‘ [31]
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