Leighton Durham Reynolds (1930–1999) was a British Latinist who is
best known for his work on textual criticism. He spent his teaching
career at Brasenose College, Oxford (pictured), where he wrote the most
commonly cited edition of Seneca the Younger's Letters. The central
academic achievement of his career was his monograph The Medieval
Tradition of Seneca's Letters (1965), in which he reconstructed how the
text was transmitted through the Middle Ages. He also wrote critical
editions of Seneca's Dialogues, the works of the historian Sallust, and
Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. In 1968, Reynolds and his Oxford
colleague Nigel Wilson co-authored a well-received introduction to
textual criticism. Writing about the set of critical editions authored
by Reynolds, the Latinist Michael Reeve stated that Reynolds's
scholarship "cut through dozens of manuscripts to the serviceable core".
When published, his work on Seneca was considered by some commentators
to be difficult to surpass.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._D._Reynolds>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1889:
Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by
Deodoro da Fonseca, while the country was proclaimed a republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_and_fall_of_Pedro_II_of_Brazil>
1922:
Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated
as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great
Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_Time>
1943:
The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler ordered that Romanies were to
be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide>
1988:
The Soviet Buran spacecraft, a reusable vehicle built in
response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its
only flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unwearied:
1. Not wearied, not tired.
2. Never tiring; tireless.
3. Not stopping; persistent, relentless.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unwearied>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on
himself.
--Marianne Moore
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marianne_Moore>
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