Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Unhappily in Decline
Martha C. Nussbaum, "A Stoic's Confessions," Arion 4.3 (Winter, 1997) 149-160 (at 150):
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The old practice of composing Greek prose and verse, now unhappily in decline, yields an active command of vocabulary, syntax, meter, and style that escapes pupils who practice a dead language only by translating.
