Saturday, 28 December 2024

Nineteenth-Century Birthers

Quidam, errore caeci, et Europae gloria stultissime capti, Washingtonium Americanum exstitisse omnino negaverunt [...]
 
Some, oblivious to error, and most foolishly taken in with the glory of Europe, have denied that George Washington was born in America at all [...]

Notes:
Francis Glass, A Life of George Washington, in Latin Prose, ed. by John N. Reynolds  (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835), p. 25: My translation.