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There is likewise1 a vigorous dispute about the time at which King Numa lived, although from the beginning down to him the genealogies seem to be made out accurately. But a certain Clodius, in a book entitled
‘An Examination of Chronology,’ insists that the ancient records were lost when the city was sacked by the Gauls,2 and that those which are now exhibited as such were forged, their compilers wishing to gratify the pride of certain persons by inserting their names among the first families and the most illustrious houses, where they had no cause to appear.
1 Cf. Lycurgus, i. 1-3.
2 390 B.C. Cf. Camillus, xix.-xxix.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.
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