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Word: alypus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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...used to look down on football fanatics before I became one myself. My conversion was like Alypus', as described by Augustine in his Confessions: "Quid plura? Spectavit, clamavit, exarsit, abstulit, inde secum insaniam qua stimularetur redire; non tantum cum illis a quibus prius abstractus est, sed etiam prae etiam prae illis, et alios trahens." New, as if to prove the medieval maxim that one must believe in order to understand, I have come to see what all the excitement is about...

Author: By Peter Heinegg, | Title: The Philosophy of Football... | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

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