• jonne
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    9 months ago

    Haha, somehow that second line never got mentioned in school, that’s brilliant.

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      9 months ago

      It goes to illustrate the way they broke down the world in classical times. Hard people from hard places, and soft people from soft places. Your own people were always the best, of course, although I find it interesting that where in the spectrum that fell varied between the Greeks and the Romans.