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She passed a finger over the reverse side of a page. She was a teacher of long years of experience. She told the class to sit down. She asked a little girl named Mamie Sessum to please rise. It was Mamie's book she held. Mamie rose. The teacher's tones were polite. It made one tremble, they were so polite.
The story that follows is told in almost the same words by Val. Max. 4, 5, ext. 2. QUI: at this point the oratio obliqua is broken off, but it is resumed in the next sentence, dixisse being dependent on proditum est. LEGATI CUM ESSENT: 'being ambassadors'. ILLI: 'in his honor'. SESSUM RECEPISSE: Val. Max. uses the same phrase; cf. Fam. 10, 32, 2 sessum deducere; N.D. 3, 74 sessum ire.
Quin etiam memoriae proditum est, cum Athenis ludis quidam in theatrum grandis natu venisset, magno consessu locum nusquam ei datum a suis civibus, cum autem ad Lacedaemonios accessisset, qui, legati cum essent certo in loco considerant, consurrexisse omnes illi dicuntur et senem sessum recepisse; 64 quibus cum a cuncto consessu plausus esset multiplex datus, dixisse ex eis quendam Atheniensis scire quae recta essent, sed facere nolle.
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