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"Those funerals with their horns and trumpets meeting in the Forum" was Horace's idea of the height of noise.
Velia was a town in Liguria destroyed by a mountain slide. It was near the present town of Piacenza, about an hour's railway ride from Milan. In 1747 the inscription was found, one of the longest that has come down to us, containing six hundred and thirty lines in seven columns.
The usual rate in provinces was twelve per cent. Pliny, Epist., x., 62 . Later, Alex. Severus lent money to the poor to enable them to buy land at three per cent.
Julianus, 611; Walker, p. 77.
Duruy, vol. v., p. 175.
Cambridge University Press, p. 122.
Hunter, p. 68.
Gibbon, vol. i., p. 497.
Zosimus, book ii., says parents were obliged to sell their children to pay the tax collectors.
Barnabas, Epistle, chapter xix.
Vision of Paul, par. 40.
Terme et Monfalcon, p. 79.
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