Becoming rather an ossified, stock phrase itself, to act out of an abundance of caution is a borrowing from post-classical legal Latin ex abundante cautela, whose final word plus deponent suffix we encounter in other aphorisms and maxims, like caveat lector.
this week’s popular posts
-
spitzmaus mummy in a coffin and other treasures : Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum’s guest curators, Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf siss-b... -
Via Miss Cellania , we are directed to the rather compelling 1961 biblical epic (overshadowed by others in the genre) directed by Richard ... -
dolia : new research reveals Roman wines to be of premium quality, contrary to conventional wisdom, and comparable to modern European standa... -
Via Damn Interesting’s Curated Links , not only do we learn that our avian friends also dream , singing silently in their sleep, but res... -
Steel magnate and prolific inventor during the late nineteenth century and second-wave of the Industrial Revolution—whose innovations were ... -
Via fellow internet peripatetic Messy Nessy Chic , we discover a 1983 self-defence manual authored by Australian Bob Jones—a martial art... -
An 1959 early spring testimony before an American senate subcommittee on the effects of “Red China Communes on the United States” by an Asi... -
Venerated on this day on the occasion her death in 1433, aged 52 after a life of suffering progressively worsening ailments due to an accide... -
Running some errands in town, we paused to take a stroll around the dry moat and Ringwall of the fortified castle complex Salzburg, with... -
We quite enjoyed pursuing this collection of sixteenth century German woodcuts cataloguing ominous signs in the heavens, the unexplained ...