who makes our knives, had his wife swear to him— not to bite or pull my balls or poke me.
You mean up your . . .
No, not there. I mean the eyes.
Oh, I’ll agree to that.
Then swear an oath on it.
I swear on this condition—that I get all the judges’ and spectators’ votes and win.
Oh, you’ll win!
And if I break the oath then let me win by just a single vote. Listen all of you! The armed infantry can now pick up their weapons and go home. Keep an eye out for any bulletins we put up on our notice boards.
Man’s by nature’s born to lie. But state your case. Give it a try.
There’s a chance you have observed some useful things inside this bird, some greater power I possess, which my dull brain has never guessed. So tell all here just what you see. If there’s a benefit to me, we’ll share in it communally.
Tell us the business that’s brings you here.
Frederick William Hall (1865–1948) was a classical scholar and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Together with William Martin Geldart, he produced the Oxford Classical Text of several authors. Hall was a careful editor known for his thorough collation of manuscripts and his conservative approach to textual criticism.
The Hall–Geldart editions in the Oxford Classical Texts series provide reliable critical texts with selective apparatus criticus. The OCT series, established in 1894 as the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, aims to present the best available Greek and Latin texts in a format suitable for both scholarly use and teaching. Each volume provides a clean text with the most significant manuscript variants recorded at the foot of each page.
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