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On this the copiers employed by Eumenes wrote their books upon sheepskins, which were called charta pergamena, or parchment, from the name of the city in which they were written. Thus our own two words, parchment from Pergamus, and paper from papyrus, remain as monuments of the rivalry in book-collecting between the two kings.
Non immerito, benigne peregrine, respondit miles. Nihili aestimo, ait ille tympanista, e pergamena factitius est. Prout christianus sum, inquit miles, nasus ille, ni sexties major fit, meo esset conformis. Crepitare audivi ait tympanista. Mehercule! sanguinem emisit, respondit miles. Miseret me, inquit tympanista, qui non ambo tetigimus!
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