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Livy

Fragmenta Oxyrhynchi Reperta

1. f]amili . . . . . . rom a.u.c. 653C. Marius] v c[os. isme cu]stodia 2. sullanis m eum enonre Liber LXXX]VIII¹ a.u.c. 672C. Mario Cn Papirio co]ss. Sulla cum] Samin[itibus ante portam Collinam debell]avit p[ulcherrimam 3. uir 4. st

¹Sic Rossbach ex imagine pholographica: at Kenyon litteras in papyro dispicere negat.

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Fragments

Minor Fragments from Oxyrhynchus

1.

In the fifth consulship of Gaius Marius b.c. 101

2. pertaining to Sulla

Book LXXXVIII¹

In the consulship of Gaius Marius and Gaius b.c. 82Papirius, Sulla ended the war against the Samnites at the Colline Gate, (and stained a) most glorious (victory with utmost cruelty²).

3.

4.

¹The existence of this numeral is not certain, see critica note.

²The words in parenthesis are Rossbach’s conjecture for completing the sentence. Nothing can be made of the other lines of letters.

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DOI: 10.4159/DLCL.livy-history_rome_fragments.1959