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Monday, March 13, 2023
Elimination of Beneficial Practices
Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 3 (tr. Chris Carey):
All the practices that in the past were agreed to be beneficial
have nowadays been eliminated.
πάντα τὰ πρότερον ὡμολογημένα καλῶς ἔχειν νυνὶ καταλέλυται.