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Some, however, say that Publicola was designated by lot, against his inclination, for the expedition, and Horatius for the consecration.1 And it is possible to infer how the matter stood between them from what happened at the consecration. It was the Ides of September, a day which nearly coincides with the full moon of the Attic month Metageitnion;
1 Cf. Livy, ii. 8, 6-8.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.
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