Friday, October 23, 2020
A Huckster
Procopius, History of the Wars 2.15.25 (tr. H.B. Dewing):
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And there has been set over us as ruler a huckster who has made our destitution a kind of business by virtue of the authority of his office.
ἐφέστηκέ τε ἡμῖν ἄρχων κάπηλος, τὴν ἡμετέραν ἀπορίαν ἐργασίαν τινὰ τῇ τῆς ἀρχῆς ἐξουσίᾳ πεποιημένος.
