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S'pose you t'ink Masser made of plate, dat you break 'em up so! Dat what ole Plin say de nigger! He say all men made of clay, and plate made of clay, too well, bot' clay, and bot' break. All on us wessels, and all on us break to pieces some day, and den dey'll t'row us away, too."
Between them and the whole family of red-men there existed a sort of innate dislike; an antipathy that originated in colour, and wool, and habits, and was in no degree lessened by apprehensions on the score of scalps. "How you look, ole Plin, widout wool?"
Others, with less propriety, refer it to the gulfs and bays, which so mark the Baltic and the German Oceans. Insularum spatia. Islands of vast extent, viz. Funen, Zealand, &c. Plin. Nat. Nuper regibus. Understand with this clause ut compertum est.
Fuit inter principea adulatores et delatores. Dr. cf. Plin. Epist. 4, 22; Juv. 4, 113, seq. Massa Bebius. Primus inter pares of Domitian's tools. He began his career under Vesp. cf. His. 4, 50. He was afterwards impeached and condemned at the instance of the Province of Baetica, Pliny and Senecio advocates for the impeachment, Plin. Epist 7, 33; 3, 4; 6, 29. Jam tum.
Hipparchus, who was distinguished for his correctness and diligence in every part of geometrical and astronomical science, and who had specially exerted those qualities in his endeavours to correct the errors of Eratosthenes, had been able to add only the comparatively small extent of 25,000 stadia to the computation of Eratosthenes. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. ii. c. 108.
The circumstance of Tingis being attacked shows that the African campaign of Sertorius was in the north-western part of Marocco. See also Plin. Tumuli are found in many parts of the old and new world, and it seems probable that they were all memorials to the dead. The only surprising thing in this story is the size of the body; which each man may explain in his own way.
That there was no confirmation by the comitia, is clear from Cic. Phil. xii. 11, 27. Sat. 2; Plin. IV. VII. Combats with the Marsians IV. VII. Sulpicius Rufus IV. VII. Bestowal of Latin Rights on the Italian Celts IV. V. In Illyria IV. VI. Discussions on the Livian Laws IV. VII. Energetic Decrees
I. V. The House-father and His Household. 6. -Hufe-, hide, as much as can be properly tilled with one plough, called in Scotland a plough-gate. I. IV. Oldest Settlements In the Palatine and Suburan Regions I. V. Burdens of the Burgesses 10. -velites-, see v. Burdens of the Burgesses, note I. V. Rights of the Burgesses Max. iii. 3, 5; Colum. i, praef. 14; i. 3, ii; Plin.
Dio. iii. 67, states that it was he who commenced it. See Plin. H. N. xxxvi. The Rutulians, a nation very wealthy, considering the country and age they lived in, were at that time in possession of Ardea.
It was at the foot of the cliff, in holes in the rocks, that, lacking wood to build themselves huts, had dwelt long ago the aboriginal inhabitants, who had slings for arms, dried cow-dung for firing, for a god the idol Heil standing in a glade at Dorchester, and for trade the fishing of that false gray coral which the Gauls called plin, and the Greeks isidis plocamos.
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