Old Etonians

Is not that chivalrous-looking party Mr. and Mrs. M. and dear B.? Oh, no, the servant is in a different livery.

It's some of the ducal family and one of their young Etonians.

I may go on.

I shall meet no one now, for I have fairly left the road and am crossing the lea by one of those wandering paths amidst the gorse and the heath and the low broom which the sheeps and lambs have made, a path turfy, elastic, thyme-y and sweet, even at this season.

Is not that chivalrous-looking party Mr. and Mrs. M. and dear B.? Oh, no, the servant is in a different livery.

It's some of the ducal family and one of their young Etonians.

I may go on.

I shall meet no one now, for I have fairly left the road and am crossing the lea by one of those wandering paths amidst the gorse and the heath and the low broom which the sheeps and lambs have made, a path turfy, elastic, thyme-y and sweet, even at this season.

And his own conduct at school, according to his own estimate, was in some respects deplorable, not however as far as I can gather in the sense of impure talk or habits, but in that of ungovernable temper and extravagance in spending.

From Eton he passed to King's College January 29, 1779, bringing with him the Etonians' sound Latin scholarship, but not a great store of Greek.

At no time of life did he effectually mend this latter defect, and indeed even in academic circles in his younger days Greek was far less accurately known than Latin, save by a few students.

Of Simeon's undergraduate studies scarcely a line of record remains, indeed nothing beyond the notice that he was lectured in Pearson's Exposition of the Creed and the Ethics of Aristotle, and took a strong interest in both courses.

I can make these characters sound like, you know, like people I grew up with, and I, I know that voice.

But then there was another thing where I was like, you'd almost go, "Well, why not make it more accurate?" And I realized what people mean by that is if I made these characters sound like upper class, you know, um, Etonians or Ox- you know, Oxbridge educated figures, they would, you know, there would be a thing of like, "Oh, yeah, Ferdia has really done his research here." Whereas that's just a convention, you know.

I'm not gonna write this book in ancient Greek.

Um, it's a translation, so you're always, whenever you take an ancient, whenever you see a fictionalized version of an ancient world, the author is, is doing a translation, an imaginative interpretation.