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... Italy , ii . 16 ) , was a winter resort of the Romans , and abounded with villas . Large flocks of sheep were fed there , and the marshes in the neighbourhood were famous for wild boars , which Horace , however , does not recommend ( S ...
... Italy , ii . 16 ) , was a winter resort of the Romans , and abounded with villas . Large flocks of sheep were fed there , and the marshes in the neighbourhood were famous for wild boars , which Horace , however , does not recommend ( S ...
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... Italy no one puts on the ' toga ' till he's dead . At the country plays you'll see in the grassy theatre both great and small dressed all alike in their white tunics . Here men dress beyond their means and borrow money ; ' tis a common ...
... Italy no one puts on the ' toga ' till he's dead . At the country plays you'll see in the grassy theatre both great and small dressed all alike in their white tunics . Here men dress beyond their means and borrow money ; ' tis a common ...
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... Italy . Virgil describes it as antrum immane ' ( Aen . vi . 11 ) , and the rock out of the face of which it was hewn Euboïca rupis , ' the Euboeans being the reputed founders of Cumae . Ovid men- tions it as vivacis antra Sibyllae ...
... Italy . Virgil describes it as antrum immane ' ( Aen . vi . 11 ) , and the rock out of the face of which it was hewn Euboïca rupis , ' the Euboeans being the reputed founders of Cumae . Ovid men- tions it as vivacis antra Sibyllae ...
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... the sense of a prophecy . They were four prophetic di- vinities peculiar to Italy . were Antevorta , Postvorta , Carmenta , and Aegeria . Their names - In vallem Aegeriae descendimus et speluncas Dissimiles veris . 46 D. JUNII JUVENALIS.
... the sense of a prophecy . They were four prophetic di- vinities peculiar to Italy . were Antevorta , Postvorta , Carmenta , and Aegeria . Their names - In vallem Aegeriae descendimus et speluncas Dissimiles veris . 46 D. JUNII JUVENALIS.
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... Italy should be shod like Greeks , despising their native shoes , is not to be regarded , as the next verse might have told him . 68. Et ceromatico fert niceteria collo . ] Ceroma ' ( howμa ) was a preparation of clay , oil , and wax ...
... Italy should be shod like Greeks , despising their native shoes , is not to be regarded , as the next verse might have told him . 68. Et ceromatico fert niceteria collo . ] Ceroma ' ( howμa ) was a preparation of clay , oil , and wax ...
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