The young boy of privileged rank would be taken by a kind of chaperone, the paidagōgos, who was generally a respected slave within the parents' household.
But on the face of it selection and competition are deemed to be bad for everybody except the privileged ranks of a tiny elite.
Succumbing to the modesty meant being relegated to the margins as a worker bee instead of the more privileged ranks as a core contributor.
The orchestra became part of the auditorium in Rome, reserved by law for those of privileged rank, who seated themselves there on a variety of portable chairs and litters.
You know, the likely lads and lasses who barged through the privileged ranks of the metropolitan elite in the 1950s, 60s and 70s – an era when, to adapt their most famous representative's mantra, a working-class anti-hero was something to be.
The EU's legendary soft power to inspire countries to do its bidding loses its clout once these states join its privileged ranks.
"We're in the least privileged place".
But no, what we're seeing is the stamping out of alternative voices and privileged feminists closing ranks to protect each other from criticism from those they are marginalising.
A second big step was to force the regular armed forces to accept a sharp cut in the privileged and flabby ranks of the top brass.It is much less clear how, when or whether any of this will happen, and how the cuts will fall on the army, navy and air force.
Our most privileged teenagers had highly educated parents and attended the richest school in the world, yet they ranked 18th in math compared to their privileged peers around the world, scoring well below affluent kinds in New Zealand, Belgium, France and Korea, among other places.
