I thought "Euge" was a typo and I'm guessing others on this list might not
get the subtle reference which Nicholas shared with me:

EUGE! BELLE! DEAR MR. SMITH—I am much pleased with your performance, and
the perusal of it has taken me from a state of great anxiety. It was a work
of so much expectation, by yourself, by your friends, and by the public,
that I trembled for its appearance, but am now much relieved.
Hume to Adam Smith EDINBURGH, 1st April 1776.On the Wealth of Nations

And in further correspondence he explained that "euge" is Greek, "eu" is
well and "ge" for emphasis (fingers crossed that Greek characters make it
through):.

εὖγε or εὖ γε , Adv.
A.well, rightly, in replies confirming or approving what has been said: as
σοὶ γὰρ χαρίζομαι. Answ. “εὖγε σὺ ποιῶν” Pl. R.351c; “εὖγ᾽, εὖγε
ποιήσαντες” Ar.Pax285; “εὖγε, εὖγε, ὦ κύνες, ἕπεσθε” X.Cyn.6.19: iron., “εὖ
γοῦν θίγοις ἂν χερνίβων” E.Or.1602; “εὖγε μέντἂν διετέθην” Ar.Av.1692.
2. without a Verb, good! well said! well done! Pl.Grg.494c, al.; doubled
“εὖγ᾽, εὖγε” Ar.Eq.470; εὖγ᾽, “εὖγε, νὴ Δἴ, εὖγε” Id.Ec.213; “εὖγ᾽, ὅτι
ἐπείσθης” Id.Nu.866: c. gen., “εὖγε τῆς προαιρέσεως” Luc.Vit.Auct.8.

You may now move about the cabin . . .

Humberto Barreto





On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 7:34 AM Nicholas Theocarakis <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Belle! Euge Steve
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 5:02 PM, Bruce Caldwell <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> Dear SHOE–list,
>>
>> It is my pleasure to inform the list that Dean Valerie Ashby of Trinity
>> College, Duke University, has just named our colleague Steve Medema as the
>> inaugural recipient of a new endowed chair. Steve’s new title is the George
>> Family Research Professor of Economics. Please join me in offering him our
>> congratulations.
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>> Best,
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>>
>> Bruce Caldwell
>> Research Professor of Economics
>> Director, Center for the History of Political Economy
>>
>> "To discover a reference has often taken hours of labour, to fail to
>> discover one has often taken days." Edwin Cannan, on editing  Smith's
>> Wealth of Nations
>>
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