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Title: An Excursion or Sally

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167-?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Seemingly developed from the Latin source of BCMSV 4740 ('St Jerome ad Celestinam'), advising a woman to adopt a gentle demeanour and modest behaviour; with some alternative wording given.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167-?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: On the benefits of a moderate appetite; translation of Seneca

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167-?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Advice to a woman to gain obedience from her children through love, to honour her husband, and to act with grace and dignity; with some revisions or corrections and with some alternative wording given. Translated from Latin by St Jerome ('ad

Celestina') o

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167-?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Suggests that alcohol reveals but does not produce vice; translation of Seneca

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167- ?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Translation of Martial, 'Epigrams', VIII.24 asking that he be allowed to request things of Caesar, since the gods allow supplications to them

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