“Such allusions, which portray Horace's awareness of politico-religious matters, can be said to be beyond the ken of a philological approach.”

“As he unravels the origins of Tolkien's work, Shippey goes into great philological detail about the origins of words.”

“He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies.”

“The description of the Plague of Athens, like that of the Cough of Perinthus by Hippocrates, is an essential text in the philologic and semantic study of epidemics.”