Duncan on Plato and Aristotle I enjoyed the following brief passage on Plato and Aristotle by John Duncan (1796-1870), a minister in the Free Church of Scotland and chair of Hebrew Continue Reading →
Classes of Rank in the Late Roman Empire (After J.B. Bury.) The three major categories were as follows (in descending order): illustres: heads of the great central ministries; commanders-in-c Continue Reading →
The Legal Style? D.A. Russell’s An Anthology of Latin Prose includes as its fifth selection a passage from Book 4 of the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, in which we Continue Reading →
