Other races walk upside down, on all fours; consist of bearded or hairy women (the Gorillae); have only one eye (like Homer’s Cyclops); or have horns and tails (the Gegetones or Gorgones, clearly hinting at our later chief villain, Satan, who gains these attributes in the sixth–eighth centuries).

In this sense, the currently fashionable self-flagellatory school of history is, at the very least, as arrogant and self-centered as the more traditional kind of self-serving history.

The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.

That for the oil of Talc, dare spend / More than citizens dare lend / Them, or all their officers - Ben Jonson, To Sickness