Archilochus of Paros, a Greek poet who, as literary folk like to say, "flourished" between 714 and 676 B.C., was known for his vituperative satire. The result is that only brief fragments of his poetry have come down to us. One very brief, and very ambiguous, line of his is Frag. 103: "The fox knows many things. The hedgehog knows only one, but it's a big thing." No doubt it loses a bit of its majestic quality in translation.
Scholars have, as scholars do, argued for centuries ...
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