Assertion: friendship | /r/HasProperty | a sort of examination
Facets:
value: since the ancients
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Aristotle and Cicero, Seneca and Montaigne, Bacon and Samuel Johnson, Hazlitt, Emerson, and Lamb have all taken their cracks at it; since the ancients, friendship has been a sort of examination subject for the personal essayist.