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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2952530, member: 19463&quot;]It is a well written account detailing everything we do not know about a man who may have existed but even that requires some assumptions.&nbsp; It is hard to study what does not exist.&nbsp; I loved the term &#039;murky episode&#039; of Roman history.&nbsp; Those new to the study of Rome often assume there is the detail we have from the first centuries all the way to the end.&nbsp; The pot containing our knowledge is reconstructed from tiny pieces and leaks like a sieve. Where we have texts, we read very critically; where we don&#039;t have texts, we must rely on things like coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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