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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 58

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s, now reduced to three; and upon theKings observing to her What do you want for these ? she repliedthat three hundred pieces of gold was her price ; that she made noabatement; that if the books were not instantly bought, they wouldspeedily be converted into light literature, and being… … Tarquiniua Superlnts has the Sibylline Books valued. who declared them to be well worth the money. They contained avariety of remedies for diseases, directions for preparing sacrifices, and n 2 36 COMIC HTSTORY OF ROME. [CITAP. IV. other interesting matter, with a collection of the oracles of…

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