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    "first": "2003-06-23T14:43:52+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0306-3516@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "the.wynns at usa.net"
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      "date": "2003-06-23T14:43:52+00:00",
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          "text": "Andrew elaborates on his theory identifying Lucius Tarquitius as our boy,\nLatro.\n\nCrush falls in line:\nThe reference at issue is Livy 3:27\n\"The next morning Cincinnatus arose and went into the Forum before daybreak,\nwhere he named Lucius Tarquitius as master of the horse. This man was a\npatrician by birth, although he had been  forced by poverty to serve in the\ninfantry, and was considered the finest soldier in Rome. Accompanied by\nTarquitius, the dictator went into the assembly of the people, where he\n[declared a suspension on all public and private business and drafted all\nmen into military service].\n\nI can't find a weakness in this theory. Wolfe has sure ready Livy.\n\nIF our Latro *were* a relative of the Lucius TarquiNius (note the slight\nname difference) that \"ruled for twenty-five years\" [534-510 B.C] until the\nfounding of the Republic as Livy says at the end of Book 1, then it answers\nthe question as to why Latro was not home fighting for Rome during its\nknock-down-drag-out war with its neighbors. It could even explain why a\nhundred Latin soldiers were with him -- the Tarquinians' closest supporters\nwould probably have been exiled as well. It explains why Latro grew up so\nclose to the Greek colonies rather than Keeping To His Own in Latium.\n\nSurely since Latro WRITES, he is not of mere common birth.\n\nOne website names this fellow Lucius Tarquinius Flaccus, but even if there\nis such a name for him in literature, there is no reason to believe Wolfe\nwas aware of it.\n\n-- Crush"
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