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Excerpt from A Plea for Livy: With Critical Notes on His First Book; For the Use of Students Ch. 1. P. 107, l. 1 (seeley). Nor does Livy doubt the early history, but only the miraculous part of it. Livy himself says, as plainly as he can speak, that the whole history before the building of the city was a parcel of fables. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.