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since objected to this account. Festus derives the word from blatea, and supposes buffoons to have been called balatrones because they were dirty fellows, covered with spots of mud blateae from walking. Another writer suggests a derivation from barathrum, because they, so to speak, carried their jesting to market, even into the very depth barathrum of the shambles barathrum macelli Balatro may be connected with balare, "to bleat like a sheep",

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