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-Sume arma, iam te occidam clava scirpea-, Just as Menander's Pseudeirakleis makes his appearance. Hitherto the person providing the play had been obliged to fit up the stage and scenic apparatus out of the round sum assigned to him or at his own expense, and probably much money would not often be expended on these.
These alignments are the work of Mr. Magnus Spence; readers must choose what importance they will assign to them. The Inverness type of circle is entirely different from that of which we have been speaking. The finest examples were at Clava, seven miles from Inverness, where fifty years ago there were eight still in existence. One of these is still partly preserved.
-Sume arma, iam te occidam clava scirpea-, Just as Menander's Pseudeirakleis makes his appearance. Hitherto the person providing the play had been obliged to fit up the stage and scenic apparatus out of the round sum assigned to him or at his own expense, and probably much money would not often be expended on these.
Get rid of this element, let each man hit his own ball, and, in place of striking to a point say, the cemetery gate let men “putt” into holes, and the Flemish game becomes golf. It is of great antiquity. Ducange, in his Lexicon of Low Latin, gives Choulla, French choule = “Globulus ligneus qui clava propellitur” a wooden ball struck with a club.
"In vain will tradition or texts of scripture be adduced in support of a doctrine, donec clava impossibilitatis et contradictionis e manibus horum Herculum extorta fuerit. For the heretic will still reply, that texts, the literal sense of which is not so much above as directly against all reason, must be understood figuratively, as Herod is a fox, and so forth."
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