What's in question is whether Moore (1779-1863), a professor of classics at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and member of a prominent family that once owned large tracts of what is now Greenwich Village, is the originator of the lighthearted verse.

FORBES: Santagate (Or, Not A Plagiarist Was Stirring)

His successor, General Manuel Jose Bonett, has gone back to the classics, telling a news-magazine that he felt he was living in the long-ago Athens of Aristophanes, where corrupt leaders took their countries to war to divert attention from troubles at home.

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