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Men with the odor of roast beans, which they carried in their bosoms, and who besides were eternally hoarse and sweating from playing mora on the street-corners and peristyles, did not in his eyes deserve the term “human.”
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What is mora? No information on internet!
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No need to apologize, Hazeanni. I did enjoy the version I read, but I should have done more research on my own before getting the Curtin translation. Again I appreciate your going to the trouble of fi…
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Of course you're welcome. Have many good reading ahead ahead!.

I have in mind to reread this in the future. To see if the second reading made me better adapted in historical premise of the story. That'…
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Yes, Nero certainly deluded himself and surrounded himself with "Yes men." Which made the parts of Petronius's suicide letter directed to Nero so enjoyable to read!
Quo Vadis: A Story of St. Peter in Rome in the Reign of Emperor Nero
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