LIES an academic career regularly grants you access to sad plates of crisps and even sadder sandwich platters, and very occasionally a teeny tiny pack of not very nice biscuits 😂

Onomasticon 5.86ff should you wish to treat yourself. There is also oinking braying mooing and the like. A chapter on tweeting follows right after.

Ok so it’s not really about Hegelochus per se but he does feature and also there’s a giant dung beetle which is always fun

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I mean I obviously know beer is made from more horse-friendly foods than wine but still. Horses apparently like a tipple.

(Now of course thinking about that fabulous article on giving war elephants wine before battle)

I feel a deep spiritual affinity with toad

I am fully indebted to you for doing this spectacular deep dive. Will obvs be sharing your findings at our first department meeting of the term next week 😂

OMG IT JUST GETS WEIRDER 😂

I work on Greek Comedy and I get some emails. But this sure is An Email 😳

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