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And You Thought Roman Numerals Were Unnecessarily Complex . . .

Posted on Tuesday: August 18, 2009 by Michael Hendry

Eugene Volokh quotes M. I. Finley’s warning about the unreliability of numbers in ancient authors: Even the rare figure to which an ancient author treats us is suspect a priori …. [W]hen Thucydides (7.27.5) tells us that more than 20,000 … Continue reading →

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