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Over-wise
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IN a lecture-room of St. John's College, Cambridge, a student one
morning, construing the Medea of Euripides came to the following
passage:--
[Greek: All ouk arisophos eimi.]
To which he gave the proper sense,--
I am not over-wise;
but pausing as if he doubted its correctness,--You are quite right,
sir, observed the lecturer; go on.
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