[PW] ? "Inter Faeces..." Quote (Quotation Query #640)

[david meadows]

Long ago on the classics-l list we dealt with this (and it comes up every
couple of years); it is not in Augustine, but the suggestion has been made
that it comes from a homily of Bernard of Clairvaux; see, e.g.:

http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/Older/log95/9512b/951
2b.56.html

http://pot-pourri.fltr.ucl.ac.be/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A2=ind0111&L=agoraclass&F=lf
&P=2868

http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/2004/07/1002.php


dm

project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org wrote:
> Fred:
> 
>     Fascinating quest, trying to run this famous quote to
> ground.  No luck here either I'm afraid, but perhaps I can save
> you checking some dead-ends.
> 
>     The online concordances at IntraText'
> website cover many Latin texts, several
> of Augustine's among them.  No occurrences of "faeces" or
> "nascimur" (or, to my limited Latin, variations of those words)
> in the Latin texts of the following:
> 
> A Firmo de civitate Dei,
> Confessiones,
> De cathechizandis rudibus,
> De civitate Dei,
> De dialectica,
> De fide et symbolo,
> De magistro,
> De trinitate,
> Regula.
> 
> Nor did "feces" or a relevant "born" citation appear in the
> concordance for the English version of Enchiridion.
> 
>     Hope that helps.  Watching posts on
> this topic with great interest.
> 
> 
>                                             Steve
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