[lbo-talk] Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Apr 4 09:57:07 PST 2003


When Webster died, Van Buren wrote in his Memoirs (as transcribed in Canto 37):

de mortuis wrote Mr Van Buren

don't quite apply in a case of this character

The full Latin proverb was something like "Of the dead speak nothing but good."

Carrol



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