I listened to a bunch of them, great scholars who knew everything there is to know, discussing some abstruse point, something along the lines of, was the post of Count of the Stables introduced by Cleomenes II or Strabo IV? One faction said there was good evidence (which they recited in detail) to say it was Cleomenes. The other lot adduced equally good evidence to say it was Strabo. Then someone passed round a bottle of the really good stuff, and when it was all gone, someone said, I know, let’s vote on it. So that’s what they did. Nine votes for Cleomenes, seven for Strabo, and that’s how we
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