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  • Startled at such pomp, I thought that the Praetor had arrived, so I put my bare feet upon the floor and started to get up, but Agamemnon laughed at my anxiety and said, "Keep your seat, you idiot, it's only Habinnas the sevir; he's a stone mason, and if report speaks true, he makes the finest tombstones imaginable."

    Satyricon 2007

  • I thought that the Praetor had arrived, so I put my bare feet upon the floor and started to get up, but Agamemnon laughed at my anxiety and said, "Keep your seat, you idiot, it's only Habinnas the sevir; he's a stone mason, and if report speaks true, he makes the finest tombstones imaginable."

    The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • I thought that the Praetor had arrived, so I put my bare feet upon the floor and started to get up, but Agamemnon laughed at my anxiety and said, "Keep your seat, you idiot, it's only Habinnas the sevir; he's a stone mason, and if report speaks true, he makes the finest tombstones imaginable."

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Augustal sevir, incorporated in the colony of Julia Paterna of Arles.

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

  • Paquius Pardalas, freedman of Optatus, sevir Augustal of the Colony of Julia Paterna of Arles, patron of the same body, and also patron of the shipbuilders, of the utriculares, and of the centenares.

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

  • _M (arco) Frontoni Eupori, sevir (o) Aug (ustali) col (oniæ) Julia (e)

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

  • L (ucio) Secundia eleutheria navicular (io) Arel (atensi) item sevir (o) Aug (ustali) corpor (ato) c (oloniæ) J (uliæ) P (aternæ) A (relatensis) secundia Tatiana fil (ia) patri pientissim (o).

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

  • Glebulas emi, lamelullas paravi; viginti ventres pasco et canem; contubernalem meam redemi, ne quis in sinu illius manus tergeret; mille denarios pro capite solvi; sevir gratis factus sum; spero, sic moriar, ut mortuus non erubescam. "

    The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892

  • "To Marcus Fronto Eupor, Augustal sevir of the Colony of Julia Augusta at Aix, mariner of Arles, curator of the said corporation, patron of the corporations of the mariners of the Durance and of the utriculares of

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

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