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Last week, however, quibblers were given pause by an arbitration ruling that appeared to break with the convention of sticking to the letter of contracts, rather than trying to divine their intentions.
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174 According to Aristophanes, the alleged co-author was a celebrated actor, Cephisophon, who also shared the tragedian's house and his wife,Alan H. Sommerstein, Aristophanes: Lysistrata, The Acharnians, The Clouds, Penguin Books (1973), note 35, p. 241 while Socrates taught an entire school of quibblers like Euripides: In The Frogs, written when Euripides and Aeschylus were dead, Aristophanes has the god Dionysus venturing down to Hades in search of a good poet to bring back to Athens. After a debate between the two deceased bards, the god brings Aeschylus back to life, as more useful to Athens, for his wisdom, rejecting Euripides as merely clever. Such comic 'evidence' suggests that Athenians admired Euripides even while they mistrusted his intellectualism, at least during the long war with Sparta.
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If it does not in effect amount > to a plea of guilty, it at least shows clearly that counsel was relying > alone upon a technical defense, and that he was seeking to place the burden > on this court of looking through a bushel of chaff to see if we could find a > single grain of wheat therein, or of hunting through a haystack to see if we > could find a needle. In the syllabus for the Court, the Judge again urged trial and appellate counsel to focus on the factual merits of the case. > As long as lawyers disregard the oft-repeated requirement of this court that > they must try their cases upon their actual merits, and persist in quibbling > over mere trifles, which are only shadows, cobwebs, and flyspecks on the > law, and present questions to this court which are purely technical, we will > continue to condemn such practice, it matters not who the attorneys may be; > for we are determined, if possible, to break it up in Oklahoma. Our purpose > is to elevate the practice of law in Oklahoma, and make lawyers, and not > quibblers, out of those who try such cases.
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