zaleuchus

Updated: May 11, 2025

Zaleuchus could not have done better. The mouth sins, and the mouth suffers.” “Next,” continued he, “I talked in school-time to my chum; and Rupilius put a gag in my jaws, and kept them open for an hour.” “The very Rhadamanthus of schoolmasters!” cried Jucundus: “and thereupon you struck up a chant, divine though inarticulate, like the statue of Memnon.”

John Henry Newman - Callista : a Tale of the Third Century