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...have recently been reading some of your letters to T. Pomponius Atticus. Are you surprised? And here I would ask you: Did you mean these epistles one day to be given to the public? I should doubt it. But whether yes or no the trick is done. Leave such things to our age. Your life, dear friend, is quite an open book! And now, but only because I love you, I tell you that some of your remarks to L. Lucceius, the historian, pleading that he speak favorably of you--even beyond the truth if necessary make a pretty immodest...
...backs. Jockey Fisher sat down, buried his face in his hands. (Both he and Meade were later suspended.) On the score board, the word "official" appeared beside the results: 1st Broker's Tip. 2nd Head Play. 3rd Charley O. Ladysman was fourth, a length ahead of his stablemate Pomponius. Broker's Tip's time-2:06 4/5-was fair for a muddy track. In the last 20 years the Kentucky Derby, started in 1875 when Aristides won a purse of $2,850, has attracted better crowds than any other U. S. horse race. Notables in last week...
...Academy of Naples arose out of social gatherings, the centre of which was the poet Antonio of Palermo. The Academy of Rome, which owed its origin to Pomponius Laetus, flourished until 1468. It was then suppressed for a time, but was revived again under Pope Sixtus IV and flourished in the age of Leo X, only to be overwhelmed finally in the general rain which accompanied the sack of Rome in 1527 by the Spanish and German troops of the Emperor Charles...
...Life and Character of Titus Pomponius Atticus...
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