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Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome

Note 1 — Chapter VII

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A flame of fire gliding about without doing any harm.

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A large plain at Rome, without the walls of the city, where the Roman youth performed their exercises. Cam'pus is the Latin word for field; and this field or plain was called Mar'tius, because it was dedicated to Mars, the god of war.

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The blood of the good old king is said to have dyed the chariot wheels, and even the clothes of the inhuman daughter; from that time the street where it happened was called vicus sceleratus, the wicked or accursed street.

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