De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum?
August 26, 2009
Says David Gordon, the maxim de mortuis nil nisi bonum (speak no ill of the dead), is, “as an eminent classicist once noted, a mistranslation from Chilo of Sparta, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, who enjoins us not to malign the dead.”
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