"their at"
Please! What does "their at" mean and function in this sentence: "They boasted that their at enabled a man to speak well on every topic, and so it did in a shallow, superficial way, which Socrates justly held up to ridicule."?

Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9407E1DF1030E333A25755C2A9649D94669ED7CF&legacy=true

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"their at"
Please! What does "their at" mean and function in this sentence: "They boasted that their at enabled a man to speak well on every topic, and so it did in a shallow, superficial way, which Socrates justly held up to ridicule."?

Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9407E1DF1030E333A25755C2A9649D94669ED7CF&legacy=true

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I incline to agree with Kasia. It must be a typo for ART: "They boasted that their art enabled a man to speak well..."

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Yes. They had a typo; it should've been "their art". Here's a source that has it right: https://goo.gl/x2heJx.

Thanks for your attention :)

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Hi Abdu! I feel like there is a mistake there as I can't make sense of it myself!

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