Terræ filius
The terræ filius (son of the the soil) was a satirical orator who spoke at the Encæna of the University of Oxford, for over a century. There was official sanction for personal attacks, but some of the speakers overstepped the line and fell into serious trouble. The custom was terminated during the 18th century.[1][2]
Nicholas Amherst took Terrae Filius for the title of a 1726 book of gossip about the university.[3]
List of terræ filii
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- 1592 John Hoskins, expelled[4]
- 1655 Robert Whitehall[5]
- 1682 Jacob Allestry[6]
- 1703 Robert Roberts[7]
Notes
- ^ John Dougill (19 October 2010). Oxford in English Literature: The Making, and Undoing, Of the English Athens. AuthorHouse. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-4670-0467-1.
- ^ Cuthbert Bede (1865). The Rook's Garden: Essays and Sketches. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston. p. 196.
- ^ William Thomas Lowndes; Henry George Bohn (1865). The bibliographer's manual of English literature containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing: with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold... H. G. Bohn. p. 2608.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Christopher Wordsworth, Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century (1874) p. 296; archive.org.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Bodleian Library (1860). Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Bodleianae ... p. 35.