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Dangerfield stood, every now and then lounged some neglected, dirty, dissipated looking inmate of these unwholesome precincts. In fact, Surgeon Dillon's present residence was in that diversorium pecatorum, the Four Courts Marshalsea in Molesworth-court.
Minime gentium! meus nasus nunquam tangetur, dum spiritus hos reget artus Ad quid agendum? air uxor burgomagistri. Peregrinus illi non respondit. Votum faciebat tunc temporis sancto Nicolao; quo facto, sinum dextrum inserens, e qua negligenter pependit acinaces, lento gradu processit per plateam Argentorati latam quae ad diversorium templo ex adversum ducit.
But it is the special reason given which strikes us as being so unlike the arguments which would prevail to-day: "Nor have I resting-places on the way sufficiently convenient for me to pass the entire daytime within them." The "diversorium" was a place by the roadside which was always ready should the owner desire to come that way.
Pergulae Balconies, where harlots were shown. Stabulae Inns, but frequently houses of prostitution. Diversorium A lodging house; house of assignation. Tugurium A hut. A very low den. Turturilla A dove cote; frequently in male part. Casuaria Road houses; almost invariably brothels. Tabernae Bakery shops.
The Alps are not especially Swiss I used to think they were English they belong equally to four nations of Europe; they are the sanatorium and the diversorium of the civilized world, the refuge, the asylum, the second home of men and women famous throughout the centuries for arts, literature, thought, religion.
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