Roman charity

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English

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Cimon and Pero, Peter Paul Rubens (c.1625)

Noun

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Roman charity (countable and uncountable, plural Roman charities)

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A story where someone is sentenced to die by starvation; but his or her daughter saves them by secretly breastfeeding them.

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