Sylla, a river-man; Cyrus, a cow-man; Themistocles, a glass-peddler; Epaminondas, a maker of looking-glasses; Brutus and Cassius, land-surveyors; Demosthenes, a vigneron; Cicero, a fire-raiser; Fabius, a stringer of rosary-beads; Artaxerxes, a rope-maker; Aeneas, a miller; Achilles, a dyer; Agamemnon, a licker-out of casseroles; Ulysses, a scyther; Nestor, a rag-and-bone man;] Darius, a cleaner of latrines; [Ancus Martius, a bit of a caulker; Camillus, a maker of galoshes; Marcellus, a shucker of beans: Drusus, an almond-crusher;] Scipio Africanus, a peddler of wine-lees in a wooden clog.
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