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They were “cestracio philippi” sharks, with brown backs and whitish bellies, armed with eleven rows of teeth — eyed sharks — their throat being marked with a large black spot surrounded with white like an eye.
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Take good care of him, and here are six philippi which are yours on condition that you keep him quiet until to-morrow at this time, and suffer no one coming from Rome to see him, or send him a message.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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"Two philippi to the man who strikes Drusus down!" bawled Lentulus.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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Ramesides that they hurriedly visited; won the favour of the wrinkled old priests by their plentiful votives of bright philippi; heard a hundred time-honoured tales that they knew not whether to believe or laugh at; speculated among themselves as to the sources of the Nile, the cause of the vocal Memnon, and fifty more darkened wonders, and resolved to solve every mystery during a second and more prolonged visit.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Carol Spahn 2011
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: Opus preclarum svpplhmentvm Chronlcarum vulgo appellatum in omnl* moda hiftoria noviftlme congefta fratris iacobi philippi bergomensis religioRit herciisi'* tarum diui Auguftini decoris: quam fauftiflime inchoat.
Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine (ad annum MDXXXVI).: ab artis inventae origine ad ... 1795
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"cestracio philippi" sharks, with brown backs and whitish bellies, armed with eleven rows of teeth -- eyed sharks -- their throat being marked with a large black spot surrounded with white like an eye.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
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