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Is this pleading causes, Cinna? Is this speaking eloquently to say nine words in ten hours? Just now you asked with a loud voice for four more clepsydrae. What a long time you take to say nothing, Cinna!
Is this pleading causes, Cinna? Is this speaking eloquently to say nine words in ten hours? Just now you asked with a loud voice for four more clepsydrae. What a long time you take to say nothing, Cinna!
Approximate author period: c. 71 AD · classical
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- Martial
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- Approximate author period: c. 71 AD · classical
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 183 · printed citation: Martial VIII, 7. · compiler notes excluded
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