| As Walter Burkert, a Swiss classicist, told the meeting, a sheep destined for sacrifice in ancient Greece would have water poured into its ear. |
| A homegrown classicist, he presented an idealized side of desire that the ancient Greeks would have understood. |
| An Oxford-trained classicist, he was elected president of the Oxford Union, a post filled by several future premiers. |
| He was a brilliant classicist at school and won scholarships to Queen's University, but chose a career in medicine. |
| But she did ask that we not describe her as a classicist but now works in another field. |
| Save for his aversion to the blues, the patient is something of a textbook classicist. |
