pedantry
pedantry
subs.
Use P. μικρολογία, ἡ.
subs.
Use P. μικρολογία, ἡ.
PEDANTRY
ineptiae (general term): putida jactatio: morositas nimia or affectatio et morositas nimia (i.e. in style the choice of words. Suet. Tib. 70). But these words do not express the notion with any tolerable accuracy. Ruhnken uses pedantismus with a qualifying expression; e.g. pedantismi vitium (utamur enim Gallico verbo cum in Latina lingua non satis aptum huic rei nomen inveniamus). Krebs suggests vanitas quam hodie novo vocabulo pedantismum vocant (the fault meant being partly expressed by the vanitas Graecula of Latin writers).
ineptiae (general term): putida jactatio: morositas nimia or affectatio et morositas nimia (i.e. in style the choice of words. Suet. Tib. 70). But these words do not express the notion with any tolerable accuracy. Ruhnken uses pedantismus with a qualifying expression; e.g. pedantismi vitium (utamur enim Gallico verbo cum in Latina lingua non satis aptum huic rei nomen inveniamus). Krebs suggests vanitas quam hodie novo vocabulo pedantismum vocant (the fault meant being partly expressed by the vanitas Graecula of Latin writers).
pedantry:
1. grammaticorum s. scholasticorum ineptiae: cf.PEDANT (1).
2. mōrōsĭtas (over-fastidiousness: to be defined by context): by affectation and p. he obscured his style, affectatione et m. [nimia] obscurabat stilum, Suet. Tib. 70. Similarly, mŏlestia: Crassus had a Latin style which was elegant without p., erat in Crasso Latine loquendi ... accurata et sine molestia diligens elegantia, Cic. Br. 38, 143: v. Nägels. p. 30. (N.B.--Pedantismus is used by some Latinists; but it should, at all events, be introduced with an apology: as, pedantismi vitium, -utamur enim [vernaculo] verbo, quum in Latina lingua non satis aptum huic rei nomen inveniamus: Ruhnk. in R. and A.)
1. grammaticorum s. scholasticorum ineptiae: cf.
2. mōrōsĭtas (over-fastidiousness: to be defined by context): by affectation and p. he obscured his style, affectatione et m. [nimia] obscurabat stilum, Suet. Tib. 70. Similarly, mŏlestia: Crassus had a Latin style which was elegant without p., erat in Crasso Latine loquendi ... accurata et sine molestia diligens elegantia, Cic. Br. 38, 143: v. Nägels. p. 30. (N.B.--Pedantismus is used by some Latinists; but it should, at all events, be introduced with an apology: as, pedantismi vitium, -utamur enim [vernaculo] verbo, quum in Latina lingua non satis aptum huic rei nomen inveniamus: Ruhnk. in R. and A.)