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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 191

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ercenaries, immediately » Diod. 5. 162 CuMIO H1ST0K* OrT ROME. [chap. XVI. on their arrival in Carthage, proceeded to the Treasury, where they foundnobody but Hanno, who in an appropriately hollow speech, announced theemptiness of the public coffers. He regretted the necessity for appearingbefore… … Hanno announcing to the Mercenaries the emptiness of the Public Coffers. feeble attempt to be facetious, that he must lay a email tax upon theirpatience, by getting them to wait for their money. The speaker wasat once assailed with imprecations in ten different languages; but hestood firm under the…

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