odium philologicum

Etymology
Contemporary Latin coinage based on.

Noun

 * 1) hatred between philologists over academic points of disagreement
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- a Renascence scholar had to justify himself, even if that meant denigrating other mens' [sic] learning. To the odium theologicum of the period was added odium philologicum. Sic Shavius putride, says a late scholiast: « thus Shaw stinkingly » — he is referring to a rival commentator's interpretation.


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- Odium pholologicum is a notorious infirmity. Scholars will lash out at one another with unbridled malignancy over what appear to the laity to be minuscule, often risible points of debate.


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- The scholarly wars between British and German academics in World War I are to be seen in the context of a more general odium philologicum which can be traced back to the growth of nationalism in the nineteenth century.