"O tempora, O mores!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I don't think so.  Cicero said it first.

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>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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