Citations:putidissime Shavius


 * 1897 October 27th, The Times, № 35,345, “Mr. Henley’s ‘Burns’” (Review), page 10/3:
 * It is a curious thing to see how the old polemical temper of editors of the classics, with their “putidissime Shavius,” and the rest of the amenities, is revived by modern editors of a modern.
 * 1898 July 11th,, “‘The Art of War in the Middle Ages.’” in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama., July–December 1898, № 3,691 (23rd July 1898), page 130/2:
 * It is impossible to square the circle. Mr. Round, when treated in the most courteous fashion, refuses to be conciliated. I used information drawn from him in my ‘Art of War,’ and duly acknowledged its value; he replies by misrepresenting my statements and accusing me of “heresy.” On the other hand, I passed over in silence certain views of his where the whole balance of learned opinion is against him; he then proceeds to complain that I “ignore and reject” his work. Not being an admirer of the “putidissime Shavius” style of foot-note, I thought it best to leave him unmentioned where I did not agree with him.
 * 1907,, Reminiscences of Oxford (second edition), chapter ix: “Summa Papaverum Capita — Christchurch”, page 126:
 * Poor Shaw’s merits, on the other hand, they appraised with contumely. The “Appollonius” was re-edited, I think, by Böckh, whose volume was eagerly scanned by Shaw in hopes of some complimentary recognition. At last he found cited one of his criticisms with the appended comment “Putidissime Shavius”!