Ken MacLeod book Learning the World
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 21 “But The Sky, My Lady! The Sky!” (p. 358)
“Greet your son Aristocleides from me. I pray he may not turn out like you, since you, too, were once an irreproachable young man.”
to Gordias, Epp. Apoll. 46
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