I drink but two thirds of a pint in the whole day, which is less than the soberest of my countrymen drink of claree at every meal.

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Claudius put a stop to these executions, and the Conscript Fathers, repenting, placed Gallienus among the divi , — which was equivalent to the maintenance of his acts.

pock-fretten (“marked with the smallpox”)