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Why do they call the money expended upon
public spectacles Lucar?
Is it because round about the city there are, consecrated to gods, many groves which they call luci, and
they used to spend the revenue from these on the
public spectacles?
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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