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Igitur, ut Batavi miscere ictus, ferire umbonibus, ora foedare, et stratis qui in aequo obstiterant, erigere in colles aciem coepere, ceterae cohortes, aemulatione et impetu commistae, proximos quosque caedere; ac plerique semineces aut integri festinatione victoriae relinquebantur.
Of the thermae in Rome, some were mercenary, and some opened gratis. Marcus Agrippa, when he was edile, opened one hundred and seventy private baths, for the use of the people. In the public baths, where money was taken, each person paid a quadrans, about the value of our halfpenny, as Juvenal observes, Caedere Sylvano porcum, quadrante lavari.
It is equally certain, however, upon the concurring evidence of independent writers, that this connection had an oracular sanction not to say, suggestion; a circumstance which was long remembered, and was afterwards noticed by the Christian poet Prudentius: "Idque Deum sortes et Apollinis antra dederunt Consilium: nunquam melius nam caedere taedas Responsum est, quam cum praegnans nova nupta jugatur."
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