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>>20290251
Please read this
> With regard to our problem, which can justifiably be called a quiet problem and fastidiously addresses itself to only a few ears, it is of no little interest to discover that, in these words and roots which denote ‘good’, we can often detect the main nuance which made the noble feel they were men of higher rank. True, in most cases they might give themselves names which simply show superiority of power (such as ‘the mighty’, ‘the masters’, ‘the commanders’) or the most visible sign of this superiority, such as ‘the rich’, ‘the propertied’ (that is the meaning of arya; and the equivalent in Iranian and Slavic). But the names also show a typical character trait: and this is what concerns us here. For example, they call themselves ‘the truthful’: led by the Greek aristocracy, whose mouthpiece is the Megarian poet Theognis. The word used specifically for this purpose, e0sqlov, means, according to its root, one who is, who has reality, who really exists and is true; then, with a subjective transformation, it becomes the slogan and catch-phrase of the aristocracy and is completely assimilated with the sense of ‘aristocratic’, in contrast to the deceitful common man, as taken and shown by Theognis, – until, finally, with the decline of the aristocracy, the word remains as a term for spiritual noblesse, and, as it were, ripens and sweetens. Cowardice is underlined in the word xaxo, as in deilo (the plebeian in contrast to the a0gaqo): perhaps this gives a clue as to where we should look for the etymological derivation of the ambiguous term a0gaqo.
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>>17299791
and the chads made fun of them for not knowing how to read