{"id":10670,"date":"2013-01-18T20:14:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=10670"},"modified":"2013-01-18T20:14:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:14:04","slug":"from-my-diary-289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2013\/01\/18\/from-my-diary-289\/","title":{"rendered":"From my diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been lying on the sofa, reading Aelian&#8217;s <em>Varia Historia<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve just read the anecdote in which Lais boasts to Socrates that she could\u00a0lure away\u00a0all of Socrates&#8217; followers if she wished, while Socrates could not possibly induce any of Lais&#8217; admirers to behave philosophically.\u00a0 Socrates acknowledged the truth of this, and replied that this was because she led men <em>downhill<\/em>, whereas he led them to improve themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Applications of the saying will occur to us in other contexts.\u00a0 Indeed I have a dim memory of a worldly Church of England cleric, a century ago, taunting a Roman Catholic\u00a0priest with the fewness of the latter&#8217;s flock, when compared to his own well-filled pews &#8212;\u00a0in those days of official religion &#8212;\u00a0and receiving the same response.\u00a0 Let us hope that the eager employee of the state recognised the allusion and was ashamed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Loeb edition of Horace&#8217;s <em>Odes<\/em> arrived.\u00a0 But, <em>eheu<\/em>, the translator decided to render them into Jacobean English.\u00a0 Maybe I shall be forced to buy the Rudd edition after all.\u00a0 Curiously the book arrived with damp, but not mouldly, pages.\u00a0 I have been drying it out under my desk lamp!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve added a couple of entries for monuments to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tertullian.org\/rpearse\/mithras\">Mithras site<\/a>, which is doing well for traffic.\u00a0 That is encouraging!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been lying on the sofa, reading Aelian&#8217;s Varia Historia.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve just read the anecdote in which Lais boasts to Socrates that she could\u00a0lure away\u00a0all of Socrates&#8217; followers if she wished, while Socrates could not possibly induce any of Lais&#8217; admirers to behave philosophically.\u00a0 Socrates acknowledged the truth of this, and replied that this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[728],"class_list":["post-10670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-from-my-diary"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}