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The gloss explains the second line thus: 'Dicitur ab alleos quod est alienum, et broge quod est fides, quasi alienus a fide'; and thus we learn that the Allobroges were a Burgundian people who were always breaking faith with the Romans. Die decas esse decem, designans inde decanum ... Delon obscurum, Delius inde venit. Ductio sit gogos, hinc isagoga venit.
No further claim is made for this present translation of the Decades than fidelity and lucidity. Its purpose is to render more easily accessible to English readers, unfamiliar with the original Latin, the earliest historical work on the New World. Legatio Babylonica, Oceani Decas, Poemata, Epigrammata. Cum privilegio.
Not marked in MS. "Mr. Rob." took the part. In the right-hand margin we find the actor's name, "Mr. Bir.," i.e. "The quantity of ten of any commodity; as a dicker of hides was ten hides, a dicker of iron ten bars. See 'Fragment. Antiq., p. 192. Probably from decas, Lat." Nares. "Dewse-ace. Deux et az." Cotgrave. Among the Romans the highest cast was called Venus and the lowest canis.
Then, to adapt the avoirdupois pound to the further objects in view, it must be reconstructed as to its divisional parts. In order to this, it is not necessary that the nomenclature should be changed, or that our poor people should be puzzled with the decas, and hexas, and millias which has formed the greatest practical difficulty in the decimal system of France.
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