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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 388

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shoulders of the Bossennus, or hunchback (from dorsum),who, like Aesop, was traditionally believed to be gifted (as if incompensation for his physical deformity) with abnormal keennessof intellect. The names of the Maccus and Pappus point to aGreek origin, and the Oscans of Campania may well have… … Diptychs of Aiiastusius, Consul a.d. 517. B b 2 372 PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS chap, vii beginning to weary of the adaptations and imitations of Greekplays, the Atellana was given a literary form by two poets,Pomponius and Novius. Some fragments of these plays arepreserved, which show that their language…

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