"O tempora, O mores!"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Jul 30 20:19:27 UTC 2005


>Here's a quote of timeless relevance, now rescued from the mists of
>time for your scholarly delectation :
>
>1675 _The Woman turn'd Bully_ (London: T. Dring)  I i   Dost thou
>come from the University, and charge us with Debauchery? O tempora!
>O mores!
>
>JL
>
But isn't the token from Cicero's denunciation of Cataline something
of an antedate?

Larry
(also wondering about the first cite of "O tempura, o morays" and
other variants)



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