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Word: venetiis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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...CONQUERED-Naomi Mitchison-;Harcourt ($2.00). Meromic, " The Pride of-the Venetii," young Prince of Ancient Gaul, came to manhood just at the time of Caesar's conquest. His tribe crushed, his father killed, his sister driven to suicide, he was sold as a slave and sent to Rome. He was rescued from torture by Titus Barrus, young Roman aristocrat and Lieutenant of Caesar. A friendship as strange as it was deep grew up between them, its bonds so strong that it even forced Meromic to fight against his countrymen during the last campaign against Vercingetorix. But at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Good Books: Oct. 15, 1923 | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

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