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N.B. This is the abbreviation used for the Latin nota bene, “note well, take notice,” often used in literary and scholarly works. Vol- taire told of how a commentator on Lucretius by the name of Creech noted on his manuscript: “N.B. Must hang myself when I have finished.” According to Voltaire, “He kept his word, that he might have the pleasure [of committing suicide] like Lucretius. Had he written upon Ovid, he would have lived longer.” |