[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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