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I CHANCED to be sitting in a bookshop in the Sigillaria See note 2, p. 128. with the poet Julius Paulus, the most learned man within my memory; and there was on sale there the Annals of Fabius Quintus Fabius Pictor, who was sent as an envoy to Delphi after the battle of Cannae (216 B. C.), wrote a history of Rome from the coming of Aeneas to his own time. He wrote in Greek, but a Latin version is mentioned also by Quintilian (i. 6. 12) and was used by Varro and by Cicero. in a copy of good and undoubted age, which the dealer maintained was without errors. But one of the better known grammarians, who had been called in by a purchaser to inspect the book, said that he had found in it one error; but the bookseller for his part offered to wager any amount whatever that there was not a mistake even in a single letter. The grammarian pointed out the following passage in the fourth book: Fr. 6, Peter. Therefore it was then that for the first time one of the two consuls was chosen from the plebeians, in the twenty-second (duovicesimo) year after the Gauls captured Rome. It ought, said lie, to read, not duovicesimo, but duodevicesimo or twenty-second; for what is the meaning of duovicesimo? . . . Varro There is a lacuna in the text which might be filled by This question might be answered by. in the sixteenth book of his Antiquities of Man; there he wrote as follows: Fr. 1, Mirsch. He died in the twenty-second year Of his reign. (duovicesimo); he was king for twenty-one years. . . .
