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More than a dozen extra-virgin olive oils from many countries are dispensed from metal drums called fustis.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Romans, and associated itself with the Sabines of central Italy, the type of men who could be called _frugi_: rusticorum mascula militum proles, Sabellis docta ligonibus versare glebas et severae matris ad arbitrium recisos portare fustis. [
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Epitom.l. lxviii.)] [Footnote 177: Horace talks of the formidine fustis, (l.ii. epist. ii.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Epitom.l. lxviii.)] 177 Horace talks of the formidine fustis, (l.ii. epist.ii. 154,) but Cicero (de
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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