Person who studies classics, the culture of (mainly) Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
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There was this lusty young classicist, he swept me off my feet.
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Throughout, Carson disregards convention in a way that only a demob-happy classicist could.
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Yes, decidedly, he was no classicist in music; he was a thoroughgoing transcendentalist.
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Find the classicist, the aristocrat, the Englishman, and the lover in that quatrain!
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It was as if he were mimicking Federer, the ultimate classicist.
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So a local school superintendent, a classical scholar, suggested a name change.
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He is a classical scholar, who writes easily in Latin and Greek.
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Though never a critical classical scholar, he could read Latin with ease.
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Then came a period of study, and he became an excellent classical scholar.
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By the way, Mac, I am a classical scholar, not an arithmetical one.
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Michael Longley, the eminent Northern poet and himself a classics scholar, asks.
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A classics scholar, he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1880.
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Erich Segal, who died a few days ago, was a distinguished classics scholar, literary critic and sports commentator.