| As Walter Burkert, a Swiss classicist, told the meeting, a sheep destined for sacrifice in ancient Greece would have water poured into its ear. |
| How could Milton the classicist, the tragedian, the epic writer, reject Plato, the Greek tragedians, and Homer himself? |
| It is a classicist revenge drama that takes its time in becoming one, and is richer as a result. |
| Save for his aversion to the blues, the patient is something of a textbook classicist. |
| An Oxford-trained classicist, he was elected president of the Oxford Union, a post filled by several future premiers. |
| The English classicist Housman said that in scholarship, accuracy is a duty, not a virtue. |
