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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 452 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)

Lewis Evans translation

Sufflamine. "The introduction of the drag-chain has a local propriety: Rome, with its seven hills, had just so many necessities for the frequent use of the sufflamen. This necessity, from the change of the soil, exists no longer." Badham.

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