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Had struggled through the classical authors on rhetoric and ethics, and the tragic dramas of Arethae, greatest of the city-states in Trakesia: those thousand-year-old confrontations between men and gods written in an almost-lost form of the language men now called Sarantine.
Arethae = Athens, Trakesia = Greece, Sarantine = Greek.
‘Artibasos,’
The name of the architect who built the Cathedral, which is, in GGK's fantasy world, the counterpart of the Hagia Sophia, I believe.
He flushed, but met her ironic gaze. ‘I like the people in my life to show some…of themselves. The uncalculated. Movements outside the games of which you spoke. That would draw me, yes.’
In fact, the wine was the least of his azictions.
I can't find the word "aziction" anywhere else...
