Wednesday, March 04, 2026
What Is a University?
Essays by the Late Mark Pattison, Vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889), p. 325:
A university is the organ of the intellectual life of the nation; it is the school of learning, the nursery of the liberal arts, the academy of the sciences, the home of letters, the retreat of the studious and the contemplative.
A Tyrant
Euripides, Suppliant Women 429-432 (tr. Edward P. Coleridge):
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Nothing is more hostile to a city than a despot; where he is, there are first no laws common to all, but one man is tyrant, in whose keeping and in his alone the law resides, and in that case equality is at an end.Christopher Collard ad loc.:
οὐδὲν τυράννου δυσμενέστερον πόλει,
ὅπου τὸ μὲν πρώτιστον οὐκ εἰσὶν νόμοι 430
κοινοί, κρατεῖ δ᾽ εἷς τὸν νόμον κεκτημένος
αὐτὸς παρ᾽ αὑτῷ· καὶ τόδ᾽ οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἴσον.
