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Thursday, April 1, 2010

This Riddle Fooled Aristotle Twice

ἄνδρ’ εἶδον πυρὶ  
χαλκὸν ἐπ’ ἀνέρι 
κολλήσαντα

See his Poetics (1458a) and his Rhetoric (1405b). 

Go figure; it's April 1.