REPLY1850
Porson's Imposition
By C.
*Porson's Imposition* (Vol. i., p. 71.) is indeed, I believe, an *imposition*. The last line quoted (and I suppose all the rest) can hardly be Porson's, for Mr. Langton amused Johnson, Boswell, and a dinner party at General Oglethorpe's, on the 14th of April, 1778, with some macaronic Greek "by *Joshua Barnes*, in which are to be found such comical Anglo-hellenisms as [Greek: klubboisin ebagchthae] they were banged with clubs." Boswell's *Johnson*, last ed. p. 591.
Topics: Macaronic Greek, Anglo-Hellenisms