Tragelaphic

And he who has ever felt what it means in our present tragelaphic humanity to find a harmonious being, swinging on his own axis, unimpeded and free from dissimulation, will understand my happiness and amazement when I discovered Schopenhauer.

[…] I have composed a tragelaphic sort of work, partly a work of classics, partly of philosophy, partly of literary criticism, full of quotations acknowledged and deformed, indebted to various and perhaps not always compatible approaches.

Those eager to compare Byzantium with the glory of ancient Greece to the detriment of the former might find in Gregoras’ self-portrayal as a modern Leonidas a tragelaphic mixture of Byzantine rhetorical exaggeration and unintentional self-parody.