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... passed , people diverted themselves in various ways . naked youths executed a sword - dance : there people passed the time with a game at dice . Here , they sat and quaffed the intoxicating mead from Ure - ox horns , and listened to the ...
... passed , people diverted themselves in various ways . naked youths executed a sword - dance : there people passed the time with a game at dice . Here , they sat and quaffed the intoxicating mead from Ure - ox horns , and listened to the ...
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... passed , under which any one who spoke ill of the emperor or of his government might be brought to trial , and , according to circumstances , put to death . The accuser was rewarded with a share of the property of the accused ; and one ...
... passed , under which any one who spoke ill of the emperor or of his government might be brought to trial , and , according to circumstances , put to death . The accuser was rewarded with a share of the property of the accused ; and one ...
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... passed on which Tiberius did not sign a number of death - warrants , and he did so with the utmost pleasure . A mother was executed for shedding tears for her son , who had been put to death by Tiberius's orders . At length the despot ...
... passed on which Tiberius did not sign a number of death - warrants , and he did so with the utmost pleasure . A mother was executed for shedding tears for her son , who had been put to death by Tiberius's orders . At length the despot ...
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... passed whole nights without sleep , slept on the bare ground , took his first meal at sunset , fasted for three or four days together , partook of neither meat nor wine , but lived on bread , salt , and water , and abstained from ...
... passed whole nights without sleep , slept on the bare ground , took his first meal at sunset , fasted for three or four days together , partook of neither meat nor wine , but lived on bread , salt , and water , and abstained from ...
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... passed whole nights in prayer - purity of heart , and pro- tection from the temptations of Satan , being the chief burden of his prayers . Palemon rejoiced over his pupil ; but God , C who led him to this course , willed that he THE ...
... passed whole nights in prayer - purity of heart , and pro- tection from the temptations of Satan , being the chief burden of his prayers . Palemon rejoiced over his pupil ; but God , C who led him to this course , willed that he THE ...
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