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Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)

Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 170

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ex multatitia pecunia conventus decreto fieri man-davit. That is: the Quaestor M. Atinius, in accordance with adecree of the assembly, caused it to be made out of money leviedby fines. The title of Quaestor seems to show that this in-scription must have been written after the occupation of… … ^OCIAL ^AME^ AND ^PORT^. Jugglers of both sexes, either single or in gangs, were com-mon all over Greece putting up their booths, as Xenophon says,wherever money and silly people could be found. These fre-quently amused the guests at drinking feasts with their tricks.The reputation of this class of…

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