QuoteQuest“Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Pliny the Elder
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Elder, Pliny the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Pliny the Elder. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder
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