Wow! I spotted an error in the Neue Pauly!!

[Jona Lendering]

The title of this topic says it all: the Neue Pauly is, except for one intentional mistake, a monument of erudition, and I have never found an error in it. Until today: there is an entry for Olba, and there is an entry for Diokaisareia - which is a bit too much, because this is one and the same city.

And since I am now pedantically showing off my knowledge: compare that printing blunder in the second edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, where the entry on "athletics" should refer to a book called Die antike Leibesübungen ("ancient body exercises"), but actually refers to Liebesübungen ("love exercises").

[Praefectusclassis]

Hmmm. Not sure if I should congratulate you or be slightly worried :wink:

[Tiberius Clodius Corvinus]

[...]where the entry on "athletics" should refer to a book called Die antike Leibesübungen ("ancient body exercises"), but actually refers to Liebesübungen ("love exercises").

perhaps is meant to be the same

anyways

to mix up Leib and Lieb seems to be a standard error ... I see it more often wrong than right. Last time in a documentary about the Liebstandarte, err ... Leibstandarte of course. :o

[Carlton Bach]

to mix up Leib and Lieb seems to be a standard error ... I see it more often wrong than right. Last time in a documentary about the Liebstandarte, err ... Leibstandarte of course. :o

I suspect it's the whole 'i before e, except after c' thing. An interlingual equivalent to the many google results on 'marital arts'.

[Jona Lendering]

'marital arts'

:lol:

[Robert Vermaat]

the Liebstandarte, err ... Leibstandarte of course. :o

Or Tolkein instead of Tolkien. :wink: