Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hamilton, John T

Titel

Lingua Homini Lupus

Ist Teil von

• Security, 2013, p.182-200

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Claude Favre de Vaugelas, the seventeenth-century grammarian and one of the founding members of the Académie Française, was long reputed for his slowness. It was his colleague Vincent Voiture, who, broaching the topic of language change, likened Vaugelas to the exceedingly careful barber described in one of Martial’s epigrams: Eutrapelus tonsor dum circuit ora Luperci, Expungitque genas, altera barba subit. (Epigrams7.83)¹ As the barber Eutrapelus goes round Lupercus’ face, And smooths the cheeks, another beard springs up. To explain the allusion, Voiture concisely and despairingly addsaltera lingua subit—“Thus, another language springs up.” Martial’s hyperbole forcefully communicates Voiture’s