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Gabii, Tarquin, who was walking in his garden, answered only by striking off the heads of the tallest poppies.
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Gabii, and were well instructed in letters, and other accomplishments befitting their birth.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The son having sent his father a messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The son having sent his father a messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As formerly at Rome, Tarquin the Proud, its last king, sent an answer by signs to his son Sextus, who was among the Gabii at Gabii.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As formerly at Rome, Tarquin the Proud, its last king, sent an answer by signs to his son Sextus, who was among the Gabii at Gabii.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Musa advised his patient to take the waters at Clusium or Gabii, two spas that offered therapeutic cold-water baths, in contrast to hot springs like Baiae.
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Other impor - tant excavations apart from Herculaneum and Pompeii included Ostia, Tor Colombaro, Monte Cagnolo, Castel del Guido, and Gabii, as well as the prolific site of
NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART DAVID IRWIN 1968
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The inhabitants of Gabii were touched with compassion, to see so many considerable persons thus cruelly persecuted, and resolved to espouse their cause, by beginning a war with the king of Rome.
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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What became of the unfortunate inhabitants of Gabii?
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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