Book 11
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The discreet and admirable reply of King Romulus as to his use of wine.
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Lucius Piso FRUGI has shown an elegant simplicity of diction and thought in the first book of his Annals, when writing of the life and habits of King Romulus. His words are as follows: Fr. 8, Peter. They say also of Romulus, that being invited to dinner, he drank but little there, giving the reason that he had business for the following day. They That is, his table companions. answer: ' If all men were like you, Romulus, wine would be cheaper.' ' Nay, dear,' answered Romulus, ' if each man drank as much as he wished; for I drank as much as I wished.'
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On ludibundus and errabundus and the suffix in words of that kind; that Laberius used amorabunda in the same way as ludibunda and errabunda; also that Sisenna in the case of a word of that sort made a new form.
