nephew-had

Updated: May 14, 2025

But then we find the very same phrases used of writings not Apostolic, or with no other difference than what the greater name of the authors would naturally produce; just as a Platonist would speak of Speusippus's books, were they extant, compared with those of later teachers of Platonism; 'He was Plato's nephew-had seen Plato was his appointed successor, &c. But in inspiration the early Christians, as far as I can judge, made no generic difference, let Lardner say what he will.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.