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The number is fixed at five hundred; but to Many of these Ferrashyn are in partibus, the title having been given to great foreign hadjys, dispersed over the whole empire, who think themselves honoured in possessing it. Many of these Ferrashyn are, at the same time ciceroni, or Mezowars, and exercise also, the very lucrative profession of saying prayers for the absent.
Ad verba, cf. note, His. 1, 16: ne fueris. The emphatic word always stands between ne and quidem. Superest. Is over and above, i.e. abounds. So superest ager, Sec. 26. Vel. Pro sive, Ciceroni inauditum. Guen. Cf. note, 17. Frameas. The word is still found in Spain, as well as Germany. Lancea. is also a Spanish word, cf. Freund. Nudi. Cf. Sec. 17, 20, and 24.
It is known that Giotto, together with his friend Dante, died before this Giotto's last great work was finally constructed by Giotto's pupil, Taddeo Gaddi, and that therefore neither of the friends could have really looked on 'Giotto's Tower, though Italian Ciceroni point out, and strangers love to contemplate, the very stone on which 'Grim Dante' sat and gazed with admiration in the calm light of evening on the enduring memorial of the painter.
James engaged vehicles which afforded accommodations for all of us a party of ten including the steward, who accompanied us, carrying a bountiful repast. The drivers of Niagara Falls are excellent ciceroni. We drove through the handsome village to Prospect Park, a property owned by the State of New York, and included in the Niagara Reservation, which the State acquired by purchase in 1885.
Let all lovers of genuine relics look well to their money before they part with it to the ciceroni that swarm in the village of Waterloo. Few travellers stop at the lonely isle of St. Helena, without cutting a twig from the willow that droops over the grave of Napoleon. Many of them have since been planted in different parts of Europe, and have grown into trees as large as their parent.
A man of taste, coming back from Rome a hundred years before, had caused a small ornamental structure to be raised, from artificial foundations, on its bosom, and had endeavoured to make this architectural pleasantry as nearly as possible a reminiscence of the small ruined rotunda which stands on the bank of the Tiber and is pronounced by ciceroni once sacred to Vesta.
There are few large cities in Syria, Anatolia, and European Turkey, where some of these people are not to be found. For their travelling purposes, and for the duties incumbent upon them as ciceroni in their own town, many individuals learn a little Turkish; and it is their pride to The Medinans generally are of a less cheerful and lively disposition than the Mekkans.
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