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Rome indeed was probably deserted in the later summer and autumn by the wealthier class, who were doubtless disposed to agree in the poet's remark, a remark to which the idlest schoolboy will forgive its Latin for the sake of its admirable sentiment: "Aestate pueri si valent satis discunt." "In summer boys learn enough, if they keep their health."
From the small inn-keeper to the great capitalist, every man of business needed to be perfectly at home in reckoning sums of money. The humbler inhabitants of the Empire had long been growing familiar with the Roman aptitude for arithmetic. Grais ingenium, Grais dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui, praeter laudem nullius avaris. Romani pueri longis rationibus assem discunt in partes centum diducere.
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