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Bustirăpi

Persons suffering the extreme of poverty; and so called because they satisfied their cravings by snatching from the flames of the funeral pyre the bread and other eatables which the superstition of the living dedicated to the dead. See Catull. lix. 2.

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    • Catullus, Poems, 59
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