To: kabumpo
There was a proverb date obolum Belisario based on the legend that Belisarius later was a poor beggar in Constantinople--"give an obol to Belisarius" (an obol was one-sixth of a drachma). There is a cartoon thought to be by Benjamin Franklin from the era of the American Revolution which displays this proverb (but spells Belisarius' name with two L's).
To: Verginius Rufus
The Robert Graves novel covers that.
49 posted on
05/12/2013 9:12:49 PM PDT by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
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