Stagyrite
Americannoun
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O’Rourke has written about that overlap of literature and philosophy in “Allwisest Stagyrite: Joyce’s Quotations From Aristotle,” among other works.
From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2015
He was a native of Stagyra, in Macedonia, and is hence often called the Stagyrite.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
Convinced, amazed, he checks the bold design; And rules as strict his labour'd work confine, As if the Stagyrite o'erlook'd each line.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
D'ye catch me, my small Stagyrite, my petit Peripatetic, my comical Academician, eh?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay
Rome is not fallen, nor the fame of the Stagyrite hurt for this.
From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William
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