R. A. B. Mynors (28 July 1903 – 17 October 1989) was an English
classicist and medievalist who held the senior chair of Latin at the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He served as the Kennedy Professor
of Latin at Cambridge from 1944 to 1953 and as the Corpus Christi
Professor of Latin at Oxford from 1953 until his retirement in 1970.
Mynors had the reputation of one of Britain's foremost classicists. A
textual critic, he specialised in the study of manuscripts and their
role in the reconstruction of classical texts. He was an expert on
palaeography, and has been credited with unravelling a number of highly
complex manuscript relationships. His publications include critical
editions of Vergil, Catullus, and Pliny the Younger. In addition to
receiving honorary degrees and fellowships from various institutions,
Mynors was made a Knight Bachelor in 1963. He died in a car accident,
aged 86. His comprehensive commentary on Vergil's Georgics was published
posthumously.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._B._Mynors>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1821:
Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San
Martín declared the independence of Peru from the Spanish Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn>
1915:
U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince to begin a twenty-year
occupation of Haiti.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti>
1976:
An earthquake registering 7.6 Mw, one of the deadliest in
history, devastated Tangshan, China, and killed at least 240,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tangshan_earthquake>
2001:
At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan,
Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at
a single FINA world championship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Thorpe>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
brawl:
1. (intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
2. (intransitive) To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.
3. (intransitive) Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to
make a loud, confused noise.
4. (transitive) To pour abuse on; to scold. [...]
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brawl>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach
decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise,
rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in
convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by
force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.
--Karl Popper
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Popper>