Plagiarism is a kind of theft, but it is also a question of honor

Any concept that has a history, philosopher Michel Foucault tells us, cannot have a fixed definition. Plagiarism is a concept with a history, as the subtitle of Roger Kreuz's "Strikingly Similar: Plagiarism and Appropriation from Chaucer to Chatbots" reminds us. But it might be close to perennial. "Quintianus, I commend you my little books—that is, however, if I can call them mine when your poet friend recites them. If they complain of harsh enslavement, come forward to claim their freedom and give bail as required.