Is it possible, Madame, that you have not heard of this learned and ferocious quarrel?
"The Etruscan language was the cause of it.

Marmet made it his unique study.

He was surnamed Marmet the Etruscan.

Neither he nor any one else knew a word of that language, the last vestige of which is lost.
Schmoll said continually to Marmet: 'You do not know Etruscan, my dear colleague; that is the reason why you are an honorable savant and a fair-minded man.' Piqued by his ironic praise, Marmet thought of learning a little Etruscan.

He read to his colleague a memoir on the part played by flexions in the idiom of the ancient Tuscans." Madame Martin asked what a flexion was.
"Oh, Madame, if I explain anything to you, it will mix up everything.