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Word: picador (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish vindication and went out of his way to antagonize the jury. Among other things, Socrates boasted that the oracle at Delphi had said of him, "No man was more free than I, or more just, or more prudent." As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gadfly's Guilt THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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