Citations:plodder


 * 2019, Charles McGrath, They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity, (10 December 2019);
 * Pliny the Elder was bold and imaginative. The Younger, as even Dunn admits, was a plodder and a bit of a pedant. He prospered as a lawyer, winning his cases not with eloquence, as Cicero did, but with sheer doggedness, piling up details and wearing down his opponents by speaking for hours on end.