“תנשק לי את התחת”

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My Lords and Gentlemen, I was asked by Lord H_____ at Wills’s yesterday afternoon why these short essays are headed with quotations from long dead authors, often in the Classical languages. I do so to ensure that no man may presume to imitate my erudition without understanding at least one sentence of the learned languages1It […]

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ἀνάγκη γάρ, ἐὰν ὑμεῖς καταψηφίσησθε, καὶ μὴ ὄντα φονέα μηδ᾽ ἔνοχον τῷ ἔργῳχρήσασθαι τῇ δίκῃ, καὶ νόμῳ εἴργεσθαι πόλεως, ἱερῶν, ἀγώνων, θυσιῶν, ἅπερμέγιστα καὶ παλαιότατα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. Antiphon, On the Choreutes, 6.4

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My Lords and Gentlemen1The title to this essay is to be translated “Once you condemn him, a defendant must perforce accept your verdict, even if he was not the murderer or concerned in the crime. The law banishes him from his city, its temples, its games, and its sacrifices, the greatest and the most ancient of […]

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