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Thus on one occasion he is led into this error from the desire to express a poetical idea by a poetical word: just as Statius writes "distinctus" in the sense that his predecessors of ages before had used "distinctio": "Viridis quum regula longo Synnada distinctu variat:" Sylv. "penna/rum a cete/ris avi/bus di/versum."
During the three days at Laodicea, three at Apamea, and three at Synnada, I heard of nothing but the actual inability of the people to pay the poll-tax; everywhere they have been sold up; the towns were filled with groans and lamentations. They have been ravaged rather by a wild beast than by a man. They are tired of life itself.
I like it hugely; but when the time comes for paying you your debts I shall have to renew the bill. * To make me do such work as this is putting a saddle upon a cow" cutting a block with a razor, as we should say "clearly I am not made for it; but I will bear it, so that it be only for one year." From Laodicea, a town in Phrygia, he went west to Synnada.
Enter the house of a Felix or a Verres. Those splendid pillars of mottled green marble were dug by the forced labour of Phrygians from the quarry of Synnada; that embossed silver, those murrhine vases, those jeweled cups, those masterpieces of antique sculpture, have all been torn from the homes or the temples of Sicily or Greece.
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