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Word: prisus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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Usage:

...still clearing of the ashes poured on that pleasure resort by the volcano in A. D. 79. The signs are painted on the walls and are chiefly electioneering vaunts. Examples: ''Mansa Sabinus never gets drunk"; "If you care for good bread and better plays, vote for Cleonius Prisus"; ''Vote for Julius Politius, a man as handsome as the god Apollo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pompeii's Electioneering | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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