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Standing near to an emptied decanter.
I'll tell you his motive: an offering votive
YES, I'm in love with the Classics; for how could I otherwise lay any claim to respectability? Can he be a scholar who does not know that AEmilia Secunda, the younger daughter of Lucius AEmilius Paulus, married Marcus Porcius Cato, the son of Cato Major? or that Hermogenes Tigellius...
Of the old authors, Aristophanes is my favorite; his "Clouds," for instance. I think if I were to attend college for fifty years, and it were possible, I would annually elect this consummate work of Grecian literature. Its chastity of style, the spirit in which it was written, cannot fail...
Possibly I contemplate a business life. Here, too, a knowledge of the ancient tongues is indispensable. Who ever heard of an unclassical man succeeding in business? Are you aware that Stewart and Vanderbilt are as familiar with the laws of augments and reduplications connected with the Greek root as they...