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"Assyria, celebritate et magnitudine, et multiformi feracitate ditissima." AMM. MARC. xxiii In describing the climate and productions of Assyria, it will be necessary to divide it into regions, since the country is so large, and the physical geography so varied, that a single description would necessarily be both incomplete and untrue.
Tradiderat interim Agricola successori suo provinciam quietam tutamque. Ac, ne notabilis celebritate et frequentia occurrentium introitus esset, vitato amicorum officio, noctu in urbem, noctu in palatium, ita ut praeceptum erat, venit: exceptusque brevi osculo et nullo sermone turbae servientium immixtus est.
Compare this with the concluding sentence of the preceding chapter. Celebritate et frequentia. 0fficio==salutatione. Dr. Brevi osculo, lit. a hasty kiss==cold and formal salutation. The kiss was a common mode of salutation among the Romans, in the age of the Emperors. See Becker's Gallus, p. 54. Turbae servientium. The usual and characteristic associates, as well as attendants of Domitian.
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