[svat]

https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignor... — per this blog post (which takes https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons... as the starting point), most classicists “can't sight-read a complex Latin text all that well” [unlike medievalists and Renaissance scholars].

[dhosek]

Granted I’m 35 years out of undergrad, but my classics professors could most definitely sight-read complex Latin just fine.