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1 See B. xxv. c. 5.
2 Picus, the son of Saturn, king of Latium. He was skilled in augury, and was said to have been changed into a woodpecker. See Ovid, Met. B. xiv. 1. 314.; Virgil, Æn. B. vii. c. 187. See also Ovid, Fasti, B. iii. 1. 37.
3 Valerius Maximus, B. v. c. 6, says, that seventeen members of this family fell at the battle of Cannæ.
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