Vulgar words in The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. (Page 1)
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Then the comic authors entertained spectators by fantastic and gross displays; by the exhibition of buffoons and pantomimes.
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Musicians, male and female dancers, players of farce and pantomime, jesters, buffoons, and gladiators, exhibited while the guests reclined at table.
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Even poets and philosophers were neglected, and gladiators and buffoons preferred before them.
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Cooks, buffoons, and dancers, received the consideration which artists and philosophers enjoyed at Athens in the days of Pericles.