The agreeable eye

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More specifically concerning: xanthippe

Elenchus

16 September 2002, around 13.35.

Socrates was married, you know, and his wife, Xanthippe, was a shrew. Perhaps that’s why he liked to sit in the cobbler’s shop and talk with young aristocrats about the meaning of words. ‘The only thing I know is that I don’t know anything.’ How many a man has said that, in the course of […]

ego hoc feci mm–MMXXIV · cc 2000–2024 M.F.C.

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