Word: novresibus
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...year with strong boosters for each of them. There was Cleopatra, who it would seem was a woman of unusual charm; there was her boy friend, Mark Antony, so fascinated by her that he was neglecting affairs of public business to woo her; and there was one Novresibus, an officeholder who had just been re-elected in a landslide in which he had received 99 & 44/100 percent of the votes in his district the preceding ides of November...
...verdict of time ever since that day seems to justify their selection. The name of Cleopatra shines out today as brightly as it did right after the battle of Actium; Antony has his place in the sun as her good friend; and as for Novresibus, well the name of Novresibus is just one more name that during the succeeding 100 years the Roman youngsters-excuse me, moppets-were obliged to memorize in the list of officeholders, in their history class at school...
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