Note 29 — SOURCES OF ROMAN HISTORY. (continued 2)

Zonaras in the beginning of his history made use also of Plutarch’s Romulus, Numa, and Poplicula, on which account a certain strange individual, Nicholas Carminius Falco, took it into his head, that Dio had compiled his history from Plutarch, and that all the rest was to be found in Zonaras. He then announced a complete restoration of Dio, yet his ignorance was beyond all belief, so that in the title, instead of βιβλία ὀγδοήκοντα he wrote, βιβλία ὀκτογίντα (The first vol. was published Neapol. 1747, fol.)