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Mrs. Rowland receipt and household remedy book, Feb. 15, 1815
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Arria, the wife of Petus, understanding that her husband was condemned to die, and permitted to choose what death he liked best; went and exhorted him to quit life courageously, and bidding him farewell, she gave herself a stab in the breast with a dagger which she had concealed under her garment; then presenting it to Paetus she said it is not at all painful; I feel not for the wound I have given my self but for that which you must give yourself in following my example. Courage and Judgment united in Necessity The Romans being ready to join battle with the Albans to avoid bloodshed it was agreed that the victory should be determined by three champions against three on either side There happened to be in each camp three brothers born at one birth of equal size and equal stature; the three Horatii for the Romans and the three Curiatii for the Albans, after a double conflict two of the Romans were slain and the third finding himself unable to contend with the three Albans together feigned fear and ran away thus by this strategem [illegible] his adversaries asunder who by reason of their wounds could keep up with him upon which he turned back and slew his adversaries one at time and thus he gained the victory for the Romans. Friendship continuing after Death Titus Volumnius a citizen of Rome, was the friend of Marcus Lucullus, who was slain by Marc Antony for following the party of Brutus and Cassius, and although he had had sufficient time to preserve himself by flight yet he remaind by [the?] dead boy of his friend and [lamented?] him with such abundance of tears, that the soldiers
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Arria, the wife of Petus, understanding that her husband was condemned to die, and permitted to choose what death he liked best; went and exhorted him to quit life courageously, and bidding him farewell, she gave herself a stab in the breast with a dagger which she had concealed under her garment; then presenting it to Paetus she said it is not at all painful; I feel not for the wound I have given my self but for that which you must give yourself in following my example. Courage and Judgment united in Necessity The Romans being ready to join battle with the Albans to avoid bloodshed it was agreed that the victory should be determined by three champions against three on either side There happened to be in each camp three brothers born at one birth of equal size and equal stature; the three Horatii for the Romans and the three Curiatii for the Albans, after a double conflict two of the Romans were slain and the third finding himself unable to contend with the three Albans together feigned fear and ran away thus by this strategem [illegible] his adversaries asunder who by reason of their wounds could keep up with him upon which he turned back and slew his adversaries one at time and thus he gained the victory for the Romans. Friendship continuing after Death Titus Volumnius a citizen of Rome, was the friend of Marcus Lucullus, who was slain by Marc Antony for following the party of Brutus and Cassius, and although he had had sufficient time to preserve himself by flight yet he remaind by [the?] dead boy of his friend and [lamented?] him with such abundance of tears, that the soldiers
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