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... entertainments . And hence the enor- mity of that state of things , when the people were afterwards permitted to regale on holidays , impune . This intention too accounts for the terms licentia , luxuries , facundia , præceps , and ...
... entertainments . And hence the enor- mity of that state of things , when the people were afterwards permitted to regale on holidays , impune . This intention too accounts for the terms licentia , luxuries , facundia , præceps , and ...
Page 159
... entertainments , and " the sort of men of which our theatres were " made up ? But , leaving the philofopher to 66 fpeculate at his ease on this matter , thus , in " fact , it was , that the Tibicen , the musician , " who played to the ...
... entertainments , and " the sort of men of which our theatres were " made up ? But , leaving the philofopher to 66 fpeculate at his ease on this matter , thus , in " fact , it was , that the Tibicen , the musician , " who played to the ...
Page 176
... entertainments , " fays Athenæus , [ 1. xv . c . 14. ] " they loved to hear , from fome wife and 66 prudent person , an agreeable fong : and those fongs were held by them moft agreeable , " which contained exhortations to virtue , or ...
... entertainments , " fays Athenæus , [ 1. xv . c . 14. ] " they loved to hear , from fome wife and 66 prudent person , an agreeable fong : and those fongs were held by them moft agreeable , " which contained exhortations to virtue , or ...
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... entertainment , and certainly much less cultivated by the Roman poets . The plain solution of the matter is , that , when now the Romans were become acquainted with the Greek models , and had . had applied themselves to the imitation of ...
... entertainment , and certainly much less cultivated by the Roman poets . The plain solution of the matter is , that , when now the Romans were become acquainted with the Greek models , and had . had applied themselves to the imitation of ...
Page 188
... Atel- lanes . But firft we are to underftand , that this fort of entertainment , as the name fpeaks , was im- ported to Rome from ATELLA , a town of the OscI in Campania ; and that the dialect of that OSCI 188 NOTES ON THE.
... Atel- lanes . But firft we are to underftand , that this fort of entertainment , as the name fpeaks , was im- ported to Rome from ATELLA , a town of the OscI in Campania ; and that the dialect of that OSCI 188 NOTES ON THE.
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