Snivelling Metaphysician 0 ▲ Laudator Temporis Acti 1 hour ago · Writing · hide · 0 comments C.S. Lewis, letter to his father (December 4,1915): There is also a 'Greek Literature' by Gilbert Murray, the bad verse-translator, which I have read with dire anger, as he degrades Homer from a poet into a 'question' and prefers that snivelling metaphysician Euripides to Aeschylus. No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.