nescire

March 9, 2009 5: 11 PM nescire said ... to know that such a neutered and fetishized presentation of rape is so easily in the hands of young people is what I see as the main problem here.

My Last Word On Rapelay SVGL 2009

"Regardless of where you think the problem lies - the subject matter, the commenters or both - more talk is the only way to address it." - nescire

RapeLay: The Response SVGL 2009

"Regardless of where you think the problem lies - the subject matter, the commenters or both - more talk is the only way to address it." - nescire

Archive 2009-02-01 SVGL 2009

Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi displicere. —

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

Sed plurimi redierunt, a quibus dum quaereretur causa cursus, dixerunt se nescire. back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi displicere.

God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

For the same reason _non scire_ would now be deemed a barbarism, becaule _nescire_ has a smoother sound; and we have likewise substituted _meridiem_ for _medidiem_, because the latter was offensive to the ear.

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Non scire_ already appears a barbarism; _nescire_ is sweeter.

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nec me pudet, ut istos, fateri nescire quid nesciam.

Pens��es 1623-1662 1944

Scibam ego te nescire, at pol ego, qui ted expendi, scio: 300 nudus vinctus centum pondo es, quando pendes per pedes.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919