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[ The direct allusion is to the “style” or probe used by surgeons in opening tumours.]
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[ Mark Antony was consul with Julius Caesar, A.U.C. 709. See before, JULIUS, c. lxxix.]
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[ Philipp. xi. 17.]
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[ Leontium, now called Lentini, was a town in Sicily, the foundation of which is related by Thucydides, vi. p. 412. Polybius describes the Leontine fields as the most fertile part of Sicily. Polyb. vii. 1. And see Cicero, contra Verrem, iii. 46, 47.]
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[ Novara, a town of the Milanese.]