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Plutarch, On Being A Busybody, 520c


nanTherefore just as at Rome there are some who take no account of paintings or statues or even, by Heaven, of the beauty of the boys and women for sale, but haunt the monster-market, examining those who have no calves, or are weasel-armed, or have three eyes, or ostrich-heads, and searching to learn whether there has been born some Commingled shape and misformed prodigy, yet if one continually conduct them to such sights, they will soon experience satiety and nausea; so let those who are curious about life's failures, the blots on the scutcheon, the delinquencies and errors in other people's homes


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shrine,pan Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 80
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temple,of fortuna Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 69
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