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Saturday, April 04, 2015
Ajax and Cardinal Newman
Kenneth Dover (1920-2010), 80th birthday talk, St. Andrews, March 2000, quoted by Stephen Halliwell, "Kenneth Dover and the Greeks," p. 13:
Personally I find Ajax much more familiar and more intelligible than, say, Cardinal Newman.