Letter 800.2
To my Lord Antoninus Augustus. Your Alsian holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . of many rustic things. That Cato also in his speech Against Lepidus mentioned a word in everyone's mouth when he spoke of statues set up to such unmanly creatures as Ocha and Dionysodorus who practised cooking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a beginning of singing and playing . . . . . . . .
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