odium philologicum

odium philologicum

English

Etymology

Contemporary Latin coinage based on odium theologicum.

Noun

odium philologicum (uncountable)

1. hatred between philologists over academic points of disagreement
   • Jack Arthur Walter Bennett (1982) The Humane Medievalist: And Other Essays in English Literature and Learning, from Chaucer to Eliot‎, Ed. di Storia e Letteratura, GGKEY:552YP7WE2FC, page 283:

     a Renascence scholar had to justify himself, even if that meant denigrating other mens' learning. To the odium theologicum of the period was a added odium philologicum. Sic Shavius putride, says a late scholiast: « thus Shaw stinkingly » — he is referring to a rival commentator's interpretation.

   • George Steiner (1987) George Steiner: A Reader‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 199:

     Odium pholologicum is a notorious infirmity. Scholars will lash out at one another with unbridled malignancy over what appear to the laity to be minuscule, often risible points of debate.

   • Christopher Stray (2018) From odium to bellum: classical scholars at war in Europe and America, 1800–1924‎, volume 10, Classical Receptions Journal, DOI:10.1093/crj/cly013:

     The scholarly wars between British and German academics in World War I are to be seen in the context of a more general odium philologicum which can be traced back to the growth of nationalism in the nineteenth century.