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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 96

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ng the chances of legislation still more remote, they ordered themembers to proceed to Athens, where, under the enervating influenceof Attic associations, they were likely to go to sleep over the subjectof their labours. The special commissioners became, no doubt, sothoroughly Greek in all their… … Roman Bull and Priest of the period. he Romans, being at peaceabroad, began to tbiuk ofimproving the means ofquarrelling among them-selves at home, and a desirefor law reform became ge-neral. Three senators hadbeen sent to Athens to col-lect information, but whatthey picked up inGreece was so…

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