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Hillary and Quintilian, or Sophistry on Parade

January 15, 2008 - 6:22 am - by Roger Kimball
Hale Adams
2008-01-15 10:57:05

Worthy people the ancient Greeks no doubt were, and naive they weren’t. But sometimes old concepts don’t get labelled until long after they’re first thought of.

So, what IS the Greek world for “sleaze”? Or is the English word “sleaze” sort of like the German word “gestalt”, for which there’s no good translation into another language?