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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 125

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ionstored still in ourgrandsires bins, usedin Odes iii, 27, and i,37. It was beyond thepoets means, and hecould feast on it only atMaecenass table or onboard his galley. Nextcame the Formian and Falernian, grown on the south-ern slopes of the hills dividing Campania from Latium— fierce, rough,… … Ancient vessel for hot drinks found nearTerraeina. Sectional view THE LAND OF HORACE 97 which he used as vin de table. The Emperor him-self — supposing he had honored with his presence thegatherings at Tibur — would have checked any con-vivial merriment with his abstemiousness. As his bio-grapher…

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