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Plutarch, On Being A Busybody, 520b

nan the unbecoming and licentious language applied to women by which Archilochus makes a sorry spectacle of himself, would he not deserve that curse in the tragedy, Be damned, compiler of men's miseries? And even without this curse, such a man's treasure-house of other people's faults is unbecoming and useless. It is like the city populated by the vilest and most intractable of men which Philip founded and called Roguesborough. Busybodies, however, by gleaning and gathering the blunders and errors and solecisms, not of lines or poems, but of lives, carry about with them a most inelegant and unlovely record‑box of evils, their own memory.

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anecdote	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 242
callipolis	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 242
chlidon	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 240
citizen	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 240, 242
control	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 239
debate	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 240
emotion,emotions,emotional	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 239
institution	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 239
intertextual,intertextuality	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 240
memory	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 239
metaphor,metaphorical	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 239
narrator,narratorial	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 240
parallelism	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 240
philip ii	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 242
plato	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 240, 242
rome,political power	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 240
socrates	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 242
sophist	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 242
sophocles	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 239
structures,political'	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 240
theon	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 242
theopompus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 242