Word: ephesus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...peasant ventured to approach the reader and gaze over his shoulder. These words, in Caesar's own hand, met his eye, "The Gods confound me if I did not lose two millions of sesterces last night. My villa at Tibur and all the statues which my father brought from Ephesus must go to the auctioneer." In other words, Caius Julius Caesar had been "ground," and by no less a man than "the prudent Catiline...
Among the tapestries, bronzes, and antique furniture from the Jarves collection sold Friday was the Borghese Gladiator, in bronze, from the original in the Louvre, by Agesias of Ephesus, which was bought for the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard College for $4,000 - N. Y. Times...