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or we may discuss
the tradition that Scipio1 was begotten by a serpent,
or that Romulus was suckled by the she-wolf, or the
story of Numa and Egeria. As regards Greek history, it allows itself something very like poetic
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licence. Again the time and place of some particular occurrence and sometimes even the persons concerned often provide matter for discussion: Livy for
instance is frequently in doubt as to what actually
occurred and historians often disagree.
1 See Aul. Gell. VII. i.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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