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... " Nundinæ , " or ninth - day holiday : similar to our market- days . According to our mode of reckoning , it was every eighth day . the Nunding ; the object being that the country people 6 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY . [ Book XVIII .
... " Nundinæ , " or ninth - day holiday : similar to our market- days . According to our mode of reckoning , it was every eighth day . the Nunding ; the object being that the country people 6 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY . [ Book XVIII .
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... similar to that made from barley in other parts of the world . The leaves of rice are fleshy , very like those of the leek , but broader ; the stem is a cubit in height , the blossom purple , and the root globular , like a pearl in ...
... similar to that made from barley in other parts of the world . The leaves of rice are fleshy , very like those of the leek , but broader ; the stem is a cubit in height , the blossom purple , and the root globular , like a pearl in ...
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... similar manner , too , tragum is prepared from seed 54 wheat , but only in Campania and Egypt . chap . 17. — amylum . Amylum is prepared from every kind of wheat , and from winter - wheat 55 as well ; but the best of all is that made ...
... similar manner , too , tragum is prepared from seed 54 wheat , but only in Campania and Egypt . chap . 17. — amylum . Amylum is prepared from every kind of wheat , and from winter - wheat 55 as well ; but the best of all is that made ...
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... similar manner , too , the procurator of Nero sent him three hundred and sixty stalks all issuing from a single grain . The plains of Leontium in Sicily , and other places in that island , as well as the whole of Bætica , and Egypt more ...
... similar manner , too , the procurator of Nero sent him three hundred and sixty stalks all issuing from a single grain . The plains of Leontium in Sicily , and other places in that island , as well as the whole of Bætica , and Egypt more ...
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... similar to our rusks . 32 Which ended A.U.C. 586 . 33 A. ii . s . 9 , 1. 4. " Ego hinc artoptam ex proxumo utendam peto . " It is thought by some commentators , that the word used by Pliny here was , in reality , " Artoptasia , " a ...
... similar to our rusks . 32 Which ended A.U.C. 586 . 33 A. ii . s . 9 , 1. 4. " Ego hinc artoptam ex proxumo utendam peto . " It is thought by some commentators , that the word used by Pliny here was , in reality , " Artoptasia , " a ...
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