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Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.
Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.
Approximate author period: c. 51 AD · classical
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- Pliny The Elder
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- Approximate author period: c. 51 AD · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Natural History. Book ii. Sect. 234.
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