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“Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2327d96b425d4f33a1388e9f05de497a748b395d55a24e3544a6a09ffdfc6b89
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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