Working my way through John Hill’s
Lucina sine Concubitu (“childbirth without congress”; it’s in English) I came across the phrase
expenden Annibalem, attributed to Juvenal. This is obviously wrong--there’s no such form as “expenden” with final n--so I looked it up. The AI Overview asserted confidently
The phrase "Expenden Annibalem" is a well-known quote from the Roman satirist Juvenal's work
while the rest of the SERP provided various pages giving the correct form “expende”.
Fine print at the end of the AI Overview--only visible if you click Show More (and, incidentally, there doesn’t seem to be a Show Less option once you’re there)--informs me that
AI responses may include mistakes.
Ya think?
If anyone wondered, the phrase comes in Satire X, which I dimly remember as being much less annoying than the better-known Satire VI.
