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Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
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Father of Comedy
Four
Cornered
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Astronomers
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Circle
Circles
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Century
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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