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date = 2023-08-10T10:30:00Z
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categories = ["Media"]
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tags = ["Books", "Ancient Greek"]
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tags = ["Books", "Poetry"]
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Studying ancient Greek during high school wasn’t a mistake, after all: I still get to appreciate the sublime works of hundreds of clever people from ~2000 years ago.<!-- more --> This becomes particularly useful when designing jokes for people who graduated in History, like a friend of mine.
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@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ First of all, let me introduce the [Greek Anthology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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> Γυμνὴν ἢν ἐσίδῃς Καλλίστιον, ὦ ξένε, φήσεις·
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> ἤλλακται ‘διπλοῦν γράμμα Συρηκοσίων’.
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Which means “If you see Kallistion naked, my friend, you will say the Syracusian symbol for 2 has been altered”. The symbol for 2 is a “Χ”, and changing the “τ” in the name makes it sound like “beautiful flanks”. It may be important to say that Kallistion was probably a prositute.
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Which means “If you see Kallistion naked, my friend, you will say the Syracusian symbol for 2 has been altered”. The symbol for 2 is a “Χ”, and changing the “τ” in the name makes it sound like “beautiful flanks”. It may be important to say that Kallistion was probably a prositute.
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