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Detmold

In dem armen römischen Heere diente auch als Voluntäre scaevola ein Rechtskandidat den man schnod gefangen hat, wie die andern alle

Notgeld der Stadt Detmold
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Er wird ungütig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Scaevola, of law a student,
Fine young fellow -- but imprudent
As a youth of tender years,
Served among the volunteers, --
He was also captured.*

History | Scherenschnitt

* Translation by Charles Leland (1872) from
Gaudeamus!: Humorous Poems
By Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
Folksong detailing the 9th Century BC Battle of the Teutoberg Forest in which the Roman general, Publius Quinctilius Varus, who suffered disastrous defeat by Germanic tribes, then took his own life.

** NOTE: The next stanza of the poem is not illustrated in the Notgeld set:

E'en his hoped-for death was baffled,
For ere they got him to the scaffold
He was stabbed quite unaware,
And nailed fast en derriere
To his Corpus Juris.

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