Though he shunned sports himself, he formed an intense romantic and sexual friendship — the most important of his life, he later said — with Jimmie Trimble, one of the school's best athletes.
On hearing this, Philopoemen not only shunned athletics himself and derided them, but also in later times as a commander banished from the army all forms of them, with every possible mark of reproach and dishonour, on the ground that they rendered useless for the inevitable struggle of battle men who would otherwise be most serviceable.
His late wife ran a Victorian inn in upstate New York; his son grew up mimicking his father's medievality and, shunning his contemporaries, devoted himself to early music; his mother-in-law is an ethnic Lemko from the Carpathians, intent on recreating the way of life her people lived before their slaughter and forced deportations in the 1940s.
Ignoring the market, shunning fashion, painting purely for himself, he muses in these paintings on death and violence.
But he still considers himself an outsider, shunning Sunday lunches with senior politicians in favour of weekends with his wife, Pippa, and their three children, Alice, Will and Harry.
Bob Gannon built himself a multimillion dollar home on lovely Flathead Lake, but he found himself shunned in Butte and eventually left the state.
Mr Bush himself shuns the label.
Mr. Sócrates himself shunned the term "stimulus spending," saying in the interview, "Not spending, investment".
Representative Charles B. Rangel finds himself shunned by some of his colleagues as he battles for re-election amid accusations that he committed numerous violations of House ethics rules.
Birch went on to graduate at the top of his class but found himself "shunned" by a portion of its members.
Austin, born into an affluent family who lived in a large house in south London staffed by servants, was from a background much more acceptable to the elite, but found himself shunned for his beliefs.
