Vulgar words in Plutarch's Lives, Volume II (Page 1)
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Marius thanked her, and said that he had good hopes, for a favourable omen had occurred to him, which was something of this sort:--When they were leading him along, and he was near the house of Fannia, the doors being opened, an ass ran out to drink from a spring which was flowing hard by: the ass, looking at Marius in the face with a bold and cheerful air, at first stood opposite him, and then making a loud braying, sprang past him frisking with joy.
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He also violated his own laws for diminishing the cost of entertainments, endeavouring to forget his grief in extravagant drinking and feasting, and in the company of buffoons.