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‖ laudator temporis acti|lɔːˈdeɪtə ˈtɛmpərɪs ˈæktaɪ|
[See laudator.]
A Latin phrase, from Horace's laudator temporis acti se puero ‘a praiser of time past when he himself was a boy’ (Ars Poetica 173), used of one who looks back to the past as a better time.
1736Swift Let. 2 Dec. in Pope Works (1757) IX. 209 Have you got a supply of new friends to make up for those who are gone?.. I am afraid it is with friends as with times; and that the laudator temporis acti se puero, is equally applicable to both. 1753Chesterfield in World 6 Dec. 293, I am neither sour nor silly enough yet, to be a snarling laudator temporis acti. 1814Edin. Rev. XXIII. 316 The suspected praises of any of the laudatores temporis acti. 1870A. C. Ewald Guide Indian Civil Service 13 Some old Indians—laudatores temporis acti—are wont to make the most doleful prophecies regarding the results of abolishing Haileybury and introducing the Civil Service Commissioners in its place. 1923Beerbohm Peep into Past 10 Not that he [sc. Wilde] is a mere laudator temporis acti. 1931Blunden Votive Tablets 360 We can hardly avoid being laudatores temporis acti when we think even of Oxford..as it has been, and as it now is. 1965O. Barfield in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis p. xv, He..ended his days..as a kind of..guilt-oppressed laudator temporis acti. |