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The History of Rome, Book II

CHAPTER VIII
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II.III.The Burgess Body 39.

II.VII.Construction of New Fortresses and Roads 40.

We have already mentioned the censorial stigma attached to Publius Cornelius Rufinus (consul 464, 477) for his silver plate.( II.

VIII.
Police) The strange statement of Fabius (in Strabo, v.p.

228) that the Romans first became given to luxury (-- aisthesthae tou plouton--) after the conquest of the Sabines, is evidently only a historical version of the same matter; for the conquest of the Sabines falls in the first consulate of Rufinus.
41.


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