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Excerpt from Livy: Books I, XXI, and XXII Inscriptions, which form so extensive a portion 0 memorials of later times, were very scanty in the I prior to the development of literature. The family records and traditions of noble houses dou constituted an important element in the formation 0 national history, and a still more important element the oral traditions of the people and the metrical whereby they half unconsciously preserved from age tc the legends of the olden time. 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.