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Overheard

“Would a Mathetes submit to a dress-code at his job, especially if it required wasteful expense?”

“A Mathetes would not be relying on a job from the Man in the first place.”

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  1. Jesse
    September 23, 2009 at 23:12 | #1

    I always want to read this transliteration as Mathletes.

    I don’t think this is true.

    • Porter Doran
      September 23, 2009 at 23:12 | #2

      I say it muh-THAY-tees, but I am sure among scholars the word is used enough that there must be a standard Anglicized pronunciation.

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