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Updated: May 26, 2025

Another very rare creature, the otter, was killed lately at Vaccarizza, but unfortunately not preserved. Fencing and music are taught, but those athletic exercises which led to the victories of Marathon and Salamis are not much in vogue mens sana in corpare sana is clearly not the ideal of the place; fighting among the boys is reprobated as "savagery," and corporal punishment forbidden.

Norman Douglas - Old Calabria