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[ Munda was a city in the Hispania Boetica, where Julius Caesar fought a battle. See c. lvi.]
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[ The good omen, in this instance, was founded upon the etymology of the names of the ass and its driver; the former of which, in Greek, signifies fortunate, and the latter, victorious.]
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[ Aesar is a Greek word with an Etruscan termination; aisa signifying fate.]
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[ Astura stood not far from Terracina, on the road to Naples. Augustus embarked there for the islands lying off that coast.]
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[ “Puteoli”—“A ship of Alexandria.” Words which bring to our recollection a passage in the voyage of St. Paul, Acts xxviii. 11-13. Alexandria was at that time the seat of an extensive commerce, and not only exported to Rome and other cities of Italy, vast quantities of corn and other products of Egypt, but was the mart for spices and other commodities, the fruits of the traffic with the east.]