'phillipi' live blog

What will-o'-the-wisp tempted you away, with a delusive hope of glory; involved you, in your declining years, in the wars of younger men; and, after exposing you to every form of misfortune, hurled you down to a death that it was unseemly for a philosopher to die?

-letter from petrarch to cicero

Here begins the live blogging of 'phillipi' - this is to keep me from throwing things at the television.

ETA Mea culpa, flist, for not doing my cut right, and spamming your page. Bad grieving classicist.

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