Aristotle

As Aelian writ of Protagoras and Gorgias, we may say of them all,
tantum a sapientibus abfuerunt, quantum a viris pueri,
they were children in respect, infants, not eagles, but kites;
novices, illiterate, Eunuchi sapientiae.

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Pre-Romantic poet best known for "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," a meditation on mortality.

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