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  • One of these, in a book written by some one who had recently been canonized -- some mediaeval doctor -- illustrates the learning of the day; deriving [Greek: gastrimargia], gluttony, from _castrum_ and

    The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

  • Dissertation of Muratori de Antiquitatibus Italiae Medii Aevi.] 91 Domini tui milites (says the proud Nicephorus) equitandi ignari pedestris pugnae sunt inscii: scutorum magnitudo, loricarum gravitudo, ensium longitudo galearumque pondus neutra parte pugnare cossinit; ac subridens, impedit, inquit, et eos gastrimargia, hoc est ventris ingluvies,

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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