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    "id": 4031,
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    "first": "2003-06-19T03:19:13+00:00",
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0306-3487@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Bollen",
        "address": "abollen at internode.on.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-06-19T03:19:13+00:00",
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          "text": "From: \"Josh Geller\" <brunians at brunians.org>\nTo: <urth at urth.net>\nSent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 1:21 PM\nSubject: Re: (urth) Was Rome Worth the Trouble?\nOn Wed, 2003-06-18 at 19:45, Andrew Bollen wrote:"
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          "text": "Latro's vision of his home, with his aged father plowing the fields,\ndoesn't\nsuggest a very patrician background, but on the other hand, he has a\npatrician kind of name in Lucius (Lucius Brutus = foiunder of the\nrepublic,\nin 509), so perhaps we are to think of an exiled patrician family in\nreduced\ncircumstances?"
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          "text": "A Republican patrician family wasn't necessarily wealthy. Cincinnatus,\nthe famous dictator, owned an estate of three acres, where he worked in\nthe field personally. Later Romans used to go on about it."
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          "text": "This did occurr to me, but I always thought the story was probably BS.\nAnyway, C. was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, appointed dictator in 458, so\nmaybe our Latro? Probably not, given that Livy has him at 80+ years old when\nappointed dictator again in 439. But one of his first acts in 458 was to\nappoint as \"Master of the Horse, Lucius Tarquitius, a member of a patrician\nhouse, but owing to his poverty he had served in the infantry, where he was\nconsidered by far the finest of the Roman soldiers.\" That could be our man,\nmaybe."
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