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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:19:48 MST
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- From: Janis Ernest Svilpis <jsvilpis@ACS.UCALGARY.CA>
- Subject: "optimo maximo"
- In-Reply-To: <9301270201.AA62300@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca>; from "Graham Wolff
- Chris
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- Graham Wolff Christian's reservations may be well founded, since,
- as he says,
- >
- > I am not yet convinced, since "optimo maximo" has always seemed a formula more
- > typical of the ancient world than the Christian neo-Latin world, but let us al
- > take it under advisement.
- >
-
- Still, this is the formula used by Alexander Pope in "The
- Universal Prayer Deo Opt. Max." Is this a touch of classicizing
- deism, or is Pope's usage connected to a Catholic tradition? My
- own upbringing was Lutheran, so the second clause of my question
- may simply identify a particularly deep trench in my private
- ocean of ignorance, but I have a recollection (hallucination?) of
- having seen "D.O.M." in more than one Catholic text.
-
- Janis
-