“Once a freshman, being examined by Dr. Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, in Hall, gave a very curious translation of a Greek word. ‘Where did you get that from? asked the Dean. ‘Liddell and Scott,‘ was the prompt answer. ‘It must have been Scott then: it wasn’t I,’ said the Dean.”
-Selby Henry, Good Stories from Oxford and Cambridge, p.87 (London, 1931)
This is one of my favorite LSJ anecdotes of all time. Of the three, I mean. IN any case, I am in your debt!
Looking back on it now, the LSJ anecdotes and really this whole month around them is when this blog really transformed into something different. What taste! What vision!