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... Italy , adopt this practice , having learnt it from the Samnites and Messapians . But the Tyr- rhenians ( as Alcimus relates ) are so far gone in luxury , that they even make bread , and box , and flog people to the sound of the flute ...
... Italy , adopt this practice , having learnt it from the Samnites and Messapians . But the Tyr- rhenians ( as Alcimus relates ) are so far gone in luxury , that they even make bread , and box , and flog people to the sound of the flute ...
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... Italy , the Milesians gave the preference to the Tyrrhenians , and of foreigners to the Ionians , because they were devoted to luxury . But the cavalry of the Sybarites , being in number more than five thousand , used to go in ...
... Italy , the Milesians gave the preference to the Tyrrhenians , and of foreigners to the Ionians , because they were devoted to luxury . But the cavalry of the Sybarites , being in number more than five thousand , used to go in ...
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... Italy ; but after- wards , they , forgetting the orderly life of the Cretans , came to such a pitch of luxury , and from thence to such a degree of insolence , that they were the first people who c . 24. ] 837 THE TARENTINES .
... Italy ; but after- wards , they , forgetting the orderly life of the Cretans , came to such a pitch of luxury , and from thence to such a degree of insolence , that they were the first people who c . 24. ] 837 THE TARENTINES .
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... Italy which was colonised by the Greeks was called Magna Græcia . 26. " But the Milesians , as long as they abstained from luxury , conquered the Scythians , " as Ephorus says , " and founded all the cities on the Hellespont , and ...
... Italy which was colonised by the Greeks was called Magna Græcia . 26. " But the Milesians , as long as they abstained from luxury , conquered the Scythians , " as Ephorus says , " and founded all the cities on the Hellespont , and ...
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... Italy and Sicily , when I paid my first visit there . But when I got there , the way of life that I found there was not at all pleasing to me ; for twice in the day they eat to satiety , and they never sleep alone at night ; and they ...
... Italy and Sicily , when I paid my first visit there . But when I got there , the way of life that I found there was not at all pleasing to me ; for twice in the day they eat to satiety , and they never sleep alone at night ; and they ...
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