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At the same time came Abong Kapi, the Sakarran Malay, with eight Sakarran chiefs, named Si Miow, one of the heads, and the rest Tadong, Lengang, Barunda, Badendang, Si Bunie, Si Ludum, and Kuno, the representatives of other heads. Nothing could be more satisfactory than the interview, just over.
It was at Rome a signification of favour to depress and turn in the thumbs: "Fautor utroque tuum laudabit pollice ludum:" and of disfavour to elevate and thrust them outward: "Converso pollice vulgi, Quemlibet occidunt populariter." The Romans exempted from war all such as were maimed in the thumbs, as having no more sufficient strength to hold their weapons.
What, for instance, can be more out of place than to bring to a close a discussion on farming by the sudden announcement of a hideous murder? His style is as uncouth as his arrangement is unnatural. It abounds in constructions which cannot be justified by strict rules of syntax, e.g. "hi qui pueros in ludum mittunt, idem barbatos ... non docebimus?"
Adde huc, si placet, unguentarios, saltatores, totumque ludum talarium. Quibus autem artibus aut prudentia maior inest, aut non mediocris utilitas quaeritur, ut medicina, ut architectura, ut doctrina rerum honestarum, eae sunt iis, quorum ordini conveniunt, honestae.
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