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},
{
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],
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{
"text": "80 BCE, Cicero, Pro Roscio Amerino 40.118",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 1.16.3",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 6.215",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 11.8",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita divi Augusti 42",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita Vitellii 12",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
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]
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]
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"type": "quotation"
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{
"text": "121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita divi Augusti 42",
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"text": "121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita Vitellii 12",
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}
],
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],
"word": "lanista"
}
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