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The produce of Italia, he was fond of telling those prepared to listen, was superlative, so why play the snob by flaunting wines from Chios, rugs from Miletus, wools dyed in Hierapolis, tapestries from Corduba?
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Your brother Lucius died in Corduba not very long into his tenure as governor.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Your brother Lucius died in Corduba not very long into his tenure as governor.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The produce of Italia, he was fond of telling those prepared to listen, was superlative, so why play the snob by flaunting wines from Chios, rugs from Miletus, wools dyed in Hierapolis, tapestries from Corduba?
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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He was cremated in Corduba, and the ashes were sent to me along with documentation sufficient to satisfy me on all counts.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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He was cremated in Corduba, and the ashes were sent to me along with documentation sufficient to satisfy me on all counts.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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For he was a spare man, had a soft and white skin, was distempered in the head, and subject to an epilepsy, which, it is said, first seized him at Corduba.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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She came from Corduba, which has a rather marshy river but is well inland; perhaps for her the call of the sea here would be stirringly exotic.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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[- 39 -] Caesar, having thus conquered, took Corduba at once.
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Hence Caesar stationed there a few soldiers from among the first-comers and himself started for Corduba, partly because he hoped to take it by treachery, but chiefly because he expected to attract Pompey through fear for it away from Ulia.
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