“…Interestingly, in his 1916 review 5 of the Hoover translation, Fairclough, a classicist at Stanford whom the Hoovers had consulted, says simply 'The Latinity of Agricola is comparatively smooth and pure…', though he does repeat the 'House-that-Jack-built' comment he takes it, apparently, as referring to the technicality of the language rather than to Agricola's syntax.…”