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... hired sheep ? I possess more 110 Than Pallas and the Licini : let the Tribunes , therefore , wait . Let riches prevail : nor let him yield to the sacred honor , Who lately came into this city with white feet : Since among us the majesty ...
... hired sheep ? I possess more 110 Than Pallas and the Licini : let the Tribunes , therefore , wait . Let riches prevail : nor let him yield to the sacred honor , Who lately came into this city with white feet : Since among us the majesty ...
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... hired . But what do they wait for , for whom it is now high time , in the Phrygian Manner , to cut away with knives their superfluous flesh ? Gracchus gave 400 sestertia , a dower 115 To a horn - blower , or perhaps he had sounded with ...
... hired . But what do they wait for , for whom it is now high time , in the Phrygian Manner , to cut away with knives their superfluous flesh ? Gracchus gave 400 sestertia , a dower 115 To a horn - blower , or perhaps he had sounded with ...
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... hired 10 To the Jews of whom a basket and hay are the household stuff . For every tree is commanded to pay a rent to the people : And the wood begs , the muses being ejected . We descend into the vale of Ægeria , and into caves Unlike ...
... hired 10 To the Jews of whom a basket and hay are the household stuff . For every tree is commanded to pay a rent to the people : And the wood begs , the muses being ejected . We descend into the vale of Ægeria , and into caves Unlike ...
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... hired lodgings admit Sleep ? With great wealth one sleeps in the city . Thence the source of the disease : the passing of carriages in the narrow 235 Turning of the streets , and the foul language of the standing team , Take away sleep ...
... hired lodgings admit Sleep ? With great wealth one sleeps in the city . Thence the source of the disease : the passing of carriages in the narrow 235 Turning of the streets , and the foul language of the standing team , Take away sleep ...
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... hired water - bearer come : if he Be sought , and men are wanting , there's no delay thro ' her That she cannot prostitute herself to an ass . 334 I could wish the ancient rites , and the SAT . VI . ] 63 JUVENAL'S SATIRES .
... hired water - bearer come : if he Be sought , and men are wanting , there's no delay thro ' her That she cannot prostitute herself to an ass . 334 I could wish the ancient rites , and the SAT . VI . ] 63 JUVENAL'S SATIRES .
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Page 5 - Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.