To obtain a knowledge of the elements out of which we make and compose all discourses is not so very difficult if anyone entrusts himself, not to those who make rash promises, but to those who have some knowledge of these things. Isocrates. Against the Sophists. Speech 13. Section 16.
Image: Mosaic depicting Aion, the god of eternity, and Gaia, goddess of Mother Earth, one of the primordial deities, with four children, perhaps the personified seasons, from a Roman villa in Sentinum, 200-250 CE, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Bibi Saint-Pol.
Image: Mosaic depicting Aion, the god of eternity, and Gaia, goddess of Mother Earth, one of the primordial deities, with four children, perhaps the personified seasons, from a Roman villa in Sentinum, 200-250 CE, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Bibi Saint-Pol.
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