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This week, I am going to stick with the basics and re-recommend another classic, The Histories

of Rome by Livy.

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It's a natus, the 12 tables, the secession of the plebs, Marcus Furious Camilleus, the

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Hello, and welcome to the history of Rome.

episode 177, The Burning Ships.

In the summer of 465, the quote unquote emperor, Libya's severest died.

No one paid him much mind while he was alive, and so no one paid him much mind when he died.

But though the emperors of the West had been rendered so ineffectual that it literally

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