Book 10
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But that of which Varro and Tiro spoke is not now written in that way on this same theatre. For when, many years later, the back wall of the stage had fallen and was restored, the number of the third consulship was indicated, not as before, by the first four letters, but merely by three incised lines. That is, by the Roman numeral III.
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However, in the fourth book of Marcus Cato's Origines we find: Fr. 84, Peter2. The Carthaginians broke the treaty for the sixth time (sextum). This word indicates that they had violated the treaty five times before, and that this was the sixth time. The Greeks too in distinguishing numbers of this kind use tri/ton kai\ te/tarton, which corresponds to the Latin words tertium quartumque.
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What Aristotle has recorded about the number of children born at one time.
