I found this too funny to resist: I'm sure you mean persons of low
condition rather than "persons of law condition". But perhaps hatred of
lawyers has classical roots.
Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
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>I mention that generally these "griffoni" could have a double connotation:
>an ethnical one (meaning "Greeks") and a social one (meaning "peasants"),
>both of them leading directly or indirectly to a pejorative sense: persons
>of law condition.
>
>If yes, please, could be elaborated an etymological evolution of it?
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Serban Marin,
>Bucharest, Romania,
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Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
PhD candidate in Theology
University of Notre Dame
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