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Re:Somehow I Became Respectable by romaaeterna on Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:37PM (#20706814)
> You wanna discuss Phaedrus or The Republic, or the Sacred Band, or something else?

Sure. How much Plato have you read in Greek? What do you think, for example, he means by ὑπηρετεῖν when applied to χαρισάμενα παιδικά?

> Waters is indeed...steeped in and derived from...

This makes me suspect what the answer to "How much Plato have you read in Greek?" was, and exactly how much that postgrad degree was worth.

Re:Somehow I Became Respectable by tomlockwood on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:54PM (#20712047)
So you can't say what I'm romanticising. Understood.