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See Lea, pp. 353-4. For a fine sketch of Roman municipal life, see Dill's Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius, chap. ii. Hist. of Latin Christianity, i. pp. 317-8. It is not easy to overestimate the influence of monasticism on subsequent religious history. The lives of its votaries provided examples of almost every conceivable kind of self-torture or semi-maniacal behaviour.
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