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  • A sumptuous banquet took place, followed by a distribution of doles and garlands.
  • His palace was more sumptuous than the temples of the gods, from which it was quite separate.
  • Dados of relief-sculpture run round the inner walls; this feature seems to have been common to Hittite buildings of a sumptuous kind, and accounts for most of the sculptured blocks that have been found, e.g.
  • 7 8 5, and was finished in less sumptuous style by his successor.
  • Antioch, adorned with many sumptuous buildings, as the chief town of the provinces of Asia, became in point of size the third city of the empire and an eastern Rome.
 
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