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Dear Friends,

I've come across a construction that I don't believe I've ever seen before, and I can't make sense of it. This is the very first sentence of Aurelius Victor's Liber de Caesaribus (LIBER DE CAESARIBUS):

Anno urbis septingentesimo fere vicesimoque, duobus etiam, mos Romae incessit uni prorsus parendi.

When he's talking about "obeying one man", he's talking about Augustus, since that's where his...

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