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On his birthday, a neighbour in order to make fun of him sent him a basket full of goat's horns (implying his wife's adultery) with the inscription "For your birthday". Laskaratos replied by sending him a basket full of flowers: "One can only give away what one has in
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Being brought up in a wealthy aristocratic family of land-owners, he studied law in Paris, but only practised law when he was in financial need. He was the student of the great poet
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Techni tou dimigorein kai singrafein (Τέχνη του δημηγορείν και συγγράφειν) "Art of declaiming and writing", ed. Κολιατσάδα, Athens, 1954
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because his satire targeted many of the church's prominent members.
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Idou o anthropos (Ιδού ο άνθρωπος), ed. Νέος σταθμός, Athens, 2001
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People excommunicated by
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Aftoviografia (Αυτοβιογραφία), ed. Γνώση, Athens, 1983
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Poiimata (Ποιήματα) "Poems", ed. Φέξης, Athens, 1916
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Idou o anthropos (Ιδού ο άνθρωπος), ed. Ερμής, 1970
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