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Insula
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INSULA, Latin. An island. In the Roman law the word is applied to a house not connected with other houses, but separated by a surrounding space of ground. Calvini Lex; Vicat, Vocab. ad voc.



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The Roman poor, who comprised the overwhelming majority, lived in one-room affairs called insulae in "high-rises" up to eight floors high.
3) Brown, R, Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae Et Insulae Van Diemen.
Beginning by recounting one very enthusiastic representation of the prospect of the union of Britain, David Hume of Godscroft's De Unione Insulae Britannicae (1605), Hadfield uses Hume's idea of a British republic as a springboard for his discussion of the different conceptualizations of kingship in the writings of James and his old tutor, George Buchanan.
 
 
 
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