Excerpt from Historical Reader of Early French: Containing Passages Illustrative of the Growth of the French Language, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Fifteenth Century None of them shall hold a Bacchic rite. If there be any who declare a need to hold a Bacchic rite, they Shall come to Rome before the Urban Praetor, and on the matter the Senate shall decide after hearing their statements, pro vided there be present not fewer than one hundred Sen atore while the matter is under discussion. No person, whether Roman citizen, or member of the Nomen Latin um, or one of the Allies, shall approach a Bacchante, unless he approach the Urban Prae tor and the latter give per mission ou the advice of the Senate, provided there be present not fewer than one hundred Senators while the matter is under discussion. The resolution was passed. This law was passed 186 b.c., to suppress the licence of Bacchic rites, which were finding their way into Italy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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