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[ It has been already observed that Naples was a Greek colony, and consequently Greek appears to have continued the vernacular tongue.]
584 ([return])
[ See AUGUSTUS, c. xcviii.]
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[ Of the strange names given to the different modes of applauding in the theatre, the first was derived from the humming of bees; the second from the rattling of rain or hail on the roofs; and the third from the tinkling of porcelain vessels when clashed together.]
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[ Canace was the daughter of an Etrurian king, whose incestuous intercourse with her brother having been detected, in consequence of the cries of the infant of which she was delivered, she killed herself. It was a joke at Rome, that some one asking, when Nero was performing in Canace, what the emperor was doing; a wag replied. “He is labouring in child-birth.”]
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[ A town in Corcyra, now Corfu. There was a sea-port of the same name in Epirus.]