Vulgar words in The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 (Page 1)
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It was an inconceivable medley of mountebanks, quacks, buffoons, magicians, miracle-mongers, sorcerers, false priests; a city of races, games, dances, processions, _fêtes_, revels, of unbridled luxury, of all the follies of the East, of the most unhealthy superstitions, and of the fanaticism of the orgy.
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Shouts of "Buffoon, actor, matricide!" were heard round about.
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All believed that Nero's hour had struck, that those ruins into which the city was falling should and must overwhelm the monstrous buffoon together with all those crimes of his.
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[34] Tertullian mentions one of these coarse caricatures--a figure with one foot hoofed, wearing a toga, carrying a book, and with long ass's ears, under which was written, "The God of the Christians, Onokoites."
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He says that Christians were actually charged with worshipping the head of an ass.
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As long as the fame of Julian was doubtful the buffoons of the palace, who were skilled in the language of satire, tried the efficacy of those arts which they had so often practised with success.