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He transgressed also his own ordinances limiting the cost of banquets, when he tried to assuage his sorrow by drinking parties and convivial banquets, where extravagance and ribaldry prevailed.
A few months afterwards there was a gladiatorial spectacle, and since the places for men and women in the theatre were not yet separated,1 but still promiscuous, it chanced that there was sitting near Sulla a woman of great beauty and splendid birth;
1 As they were in the time of Augustus.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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