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"These must be for you too, Sally," said he, burying his nose in one fine half-open bud. "Not a bit of it." "No flowers for you, child?" "Fruit and chocolates and writing-tablets and other delightful things. You must have some of the grapes, Uncle Timmy I ought to have thought of them for your breakfast."
"It is well," she said: "here is the garb with spare linen, and writing-tablets, and all things needful. I have seen Brennus also, and told him that a Syrian merchant would pass the guard an hour before the dawn.
Later it was extended over five and then over seven days, exactly as our Christmas celebrations which are a Christian adaptation of it tend virtually to spread over longer and longer periods. At this winter festival of the Saturnalia there was an interchange of presents such as confectionery, game, articles of clothing, writing-tablets and a general outburst of goodwill and merriment.
Out in the streets the boys are on their way to school, the poorer ones carrying their own lanterns at least if it is the time of year when the days are short their writing-tablets and their reading-books, probably Virgil and Horace, who were standard authors serving in the Roman schools as Shakespeare and Pope do in our own.
One day, it occurred to him to open a school and teach children; so he got together writing-tablets and written papers and hung them up in a high place.
Ranks were distinguished by different headdresses, garments, badges, weapons, writing-tablets, number of attendants, carriages, horses, height of walls, etc. Daily as well as official life was regulated by minute observances. There were written codes embracing almost every attitude and act of inferiors toward superiors, of superiors toward inferiors, and of equals toward equals.
Demaratus took two writing-tablets such as these, and removing the wax from them, he wrote a brief account of the proposed Persian invasion, by tracing the characters upon the surface of the wood or metal itself, beneath; then, restoring the wax so as to conceal the letters, he sent the two tablets, seemingly blank, to Leonidas, king of Sparta.
"Well then, Jew," said Aymer, "since I must needs meddle in this matter, let me have the use of thy writing-tablets though, hold rather than use thy pen, I would fast for twenty-four hours, and where shall I find one?"
On the death of Hephæstion, Perdikkas was appointed to succeed him, and Eumenes was given the post of commander of the cavalry, vacated by Perdikkas. Upon this Neoptolemus, the chief of the men-at-arms, sneered at Eumenes, saying that he himself bore a spear and shield in Alexander's service, but that Eumenes bore a pen and writing-tablets.
He concludes his short letter on the subject by advising his friend "when you go hunting, take my advice and carry your writing-tablets as well as your luncheon-basket and flask: you will find that Minerva roams the hills no less than Diana."
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