The incipit of a piece in the apparently indicatively-named LocalIQ:
Have you ever imagined Cleopatra, in 26 BC, staring up at the sky at Polaris — the North Star and bright and pointy handle of the constellation called The Little Dipper — and wondered how different it looked to her than it does to you now?
… talk about your captatio malevolentiae …
rogue classicism 
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