
Excerpt from Essai sur l'Antiquité de l'Usage de Saluer Ceux Qui Éternuent Et sur la Manière Dont les Romains Saluaient Parmi tous les usages disparus, il en est un, naguère existant, dont je veux rechercher l'antiquité. On a prétendu que la coutume de saluer ceux qui éternuent et de faire des souhaits en leur faveur remontait seulement 'a la fin du VI siècle. Alors' une maladie contagieuse sévissait dans la ville de Rome et y faisait un grand nombre de victimes (l). 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.
Page Count:
98
Publication Date:
2018-03-17
Publisher:
Fb&c Limited
ISBN-10:
0332729176
ISBN-13:
9780332729176
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