Quotes by Edith Hamilton, The Roman Way

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“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades challenged him to drink two quarts of wine, could have done so or not as ...”
— Edith Hamilton, The Roman Way
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