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To: SunkenCiv

You can’t trust them Etruscans.............


16 posted on 10/24/2023 8:28:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
The Greeks didn't like their dining practices, and the Romans adopted those very same practices. OTOH, the Romans tried fat-shaming the Etruscans:
Virgil called them pinguis Tyrrenus (“fat Tyrrhenians”), while Catullus used the term obesus Etruscus [ * ]

18 posted on 10/24/2023 8:35:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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