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As to the government's arms: they were bought by one government office before they had been sold (as condemned) by another ditto (i.e. government office) passing through a species of profit sieve.

"A greek", said Ionides or some other Hellene,
"honest after he has cleaned up 20 thousand"
meaning twenty thousand pund sterling.

With our eyes on the new gothic residence, with our
eyes on Palladio, with a desire for seigneurial splendours
(AGALMA, haberdashery, clocks, ormolu, brocatelli,
tapestries, unreadable volumes bound in tree-calf,
half-morocco, morocco, tooled edges, green ribbons,
flaps, farthingales, fichus, cuties, shorties, pinkies
et cetera

Out of which things seeking an exit

PLEASING TO CARTHEGENIANS : HANNO

that he ply beyond pillars of Herakles
60 ships of armada to lay out Phoenician cities
to each ship 50 oars, in all

30 thousand aboard them with wheat, in provision,
Two days beyond Gibel Tara layed in the wide plain
Thumia tehyon, went westward to Solois
an headland covered with trees

Entha hieron Poseidōnos, against the sun half a day
is seabord marshland high-murmuring rushes.
In that place great elephant herds

and beasts many other amongst them
So laid we house: Karikon, Gutta, Akra, Meli, Arambo
these are the cities, then

Out of which things seeking an exit
To the high air, to the stratosphere, to the imperial
calm, to the empyrean, to the baily of the four towers
the NOUS, the ineffable crystal :
Karxèdoniōn Basileos
hung this with his map in their temple.