...ving retired a long way since then. It was a collection of little rooms of archaic architecture, built of palm trunks with corners of stone, and separ... ...ms. Delicate filaments drawn from marine plants hung amid flax from Egypt, Greece, Taprobane and Judaea; mandrepores bristled like large bushes at the... ...there were twelve hundred marriageable slaves destined for prostitution in Greece and Italy , and their hair, having been rendered elastic by the use ...

... particular quickly revolt from him, and turn away repulsed at once by the archaic form of the language and by the out- spokenness of the words. But i... ...rds, droll expressions, sudden and surprising constructions. What had made Greece and the Athenians laugh was worth transporting to Paris. With an ins... ...And such a one is this, art’s masterpiece, A thing ne’er equall’d by old Greece: A thing ne’er match’d as yet, a real Golden Fleece. 35 Rabelais IV... ...stotle, who at that time was highly renowned above all the philosophers of Greece. After the same manner I tell you, that by this only discourse, whic... ...t is Greek, I have under- stood him. And how? hast thou dwelt any while in Greece? Then said the droll again: ‘ Agonou dont oussys vous desdagnez algo... ...attesteth, called Ru; Santonica from a region of that name; Fenugreek from Greece; Gastanes from a country so called; Persicaria from Persia; Sabine f...