Scipio's Liberality
The next instance was his conduct to the daughtersScipio's liberality to his cousins, sisters to his adoptive father. |
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Scipio's liberality to his cousins, sisters to his adoptive father. |
1 The following pedigree will show the various family connexions here alluded to:—
2 τῶν ἐπίπλων, the ornamenta of a bride, consisting of clothes, jewels, slaves, and other things, in accordance with her station. See Horace, Sat. 2, 3, 214. For the three instalments in which it was necessary to pay dowries, see Cicero ad Att. ii. 23; 2 Phil. § 113.
3 ποιοῦντος τὴν διαγραφὴν seems a banker's term for "paying," i.e. by striking off or cancelling a debt entered against a man. The only other instance of such a use seems to be Dionys. Hal. 5, 28.
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