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  • It has been suggested that when he spoke with horror of panglossia in the second Olympian Ode, he had in mind the word parrhesia.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

  • This may or may not be the case, but certainly panglossia, like parrhesia, denotes a readiness to utter anything.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

  • Polla oi ut 'anko - nos okea belae endon enti pharetras phonanta synetoisin; es de to pan hermaeneon chatizei; sophos o pol - la eidos phua; mathontes de labroi panglossia, korakes os, akranta garueton

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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