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Tuesday, July 23, 2024
It Can't Be Helped
Victor Ehrenberg, Society and Civilization in Greece and Rome (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964 = Martin Classical Lectures, XVIII), p. 1:
If you now feel I am an old-fashioned dodo—it just can't be helped.