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Smyly, one of the leading papyrologists of his day.
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At the time I came to college Smyly was temporarily doing a job that he found slightly uncomfortable.
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Smyly was taken out of retirement for the purpose because of the enormous knowledge of rare Greek words which he had picked up from his readings in the papyri.
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Smyly translated it for us as "You might say, ladies and gentlemen, the headache of the morning after."
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Smyly, one of the leading papyrologists of his day.
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Smyly translated it for us as "You might say, ladies and gentlemen, the headache of the morning after."
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Smyly was taken out of retirement for the purpose because of the enormous knowledge of rare Greek words which he had picked up from his readings in the papyri.
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At the time I came to college Smyly was temporarily doing a job that he found slightly uncomfortable.
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In the early 1930s Smyly looked like a photograph of a gentleman of the 1880s: stiff round collar, full morning dress, and an immense head of white hair framing a face which suggested an old eagle.
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Smyly certainly knew something about the theoretical side of comparative philology—mostly Antoine Meillet's seminal text of the midtwenties, Introduction à l’étude comparative des langues indo-européennes—but he made quite fascinating the use of the rare words to illustrate Meillet.
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