Word: gallic
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Pliny did not say how well the Gallic harvester worked (probably not well), and few other classical authors even mentioned it. No contemporary drawing of it was known, and there was a fair possibility that it might have been only as real as some other items in Pliny, such as people in India who have only one foot and sometimes use it as a parasol.* But last week an ancient carving was proving that the Gallic harvester really existed, just about as Pliny described...
...prize block, which has just been cleaned of its incrustations, shows the debated Gallic harvester. It has two wheels and a comb of teeth, just as Pliny said, and a box to catch the heads of grain. In front, carrying a shovel-like implement, is a laborer. The only important deviation from the Pliny version is that the motive power appears to be a mule instead of oxen...
...into briskly readable, contemporary English by such able writers as Robert Graves (The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Lucan's Pharsalia), Rolfe Humphries (Ovid's Metamorphoses), Moses Hadas (An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus), Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (Sophocles' Theban plays), Stanley Alexander Handford (Caesar's Gallic Wars...
Illicit by Another Name. When Isa and Maurice cannot kill their illicit love, they decide to clear its name. They call it "passion" and proceed to enjoy it. But with Belle's death, Isa feels the birthpangs of guilt ("dead . . . she divided us forever"). Isa and Maurice quarrel, Gallic-fashion, over the disposition of La Fouve. Then the women again close ranks, and that episodic intruder, man, is expelled bewildered from this strange Garden of Eves. With fitting irony, Maurice leaves Isa pregnant with a daughter to carry on the cycle of gynarchy...
Ageless Charmer Maurice Chevalier offered in Manhattan a restrained Gallic comment on le rock 'n' roll americain: "It belongs to the fever of this time, but it will pass because you can't spend a lifetime doing that...