Skirts are in this year.
Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.
As Philodemus indicated in antiquity, encomia of Busiris [by Isocrates] belong to this category of paradoxical or adoxographic treatises, which flourished in nearly all periods of ancient Greek literature. These were speeches written in the encomiastic style on subjects that were immediately recognizable to ancient audiences as vile, trivial, ridiculous, or otherwise unsuited to praise.
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[…] Monſieur de Sanſſac was appointed to attend vpon him [Francis I of France] with all ſorts of Haukes, wherein the ſaide Emperour ſemed to take great delight, eſpecially with flying at the Kight, which the French call Voler le Milan, […]
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