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I Throw an Apple at My Horses, but Consent Zen Thippy, Both Thou and I Decay

Sam Nippy looks at some of Plato's most famous epigrams. He says one is about wooing a horse with an apple. The other describes Jesus' wife, who he thinks was "annoying" Sam: I think she was beautiful, but just annoying.

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