Tuesday 30 July 2024

Lex Youtie

Ariel Sabar, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife (New York: Anchor Books, 2021; 2020), p. 14:

American papyrologist Herbert Youtie coined a dictum. Known as Lex Youtie, Latin for “Youtie’s Rule,” it advises, “Iuxta lacunam ne mutaveris,” or, roughly, “Next to a hole, thou shalt not edit.”