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Tacitus, The Histories, Volumes I and II

Note 56 — BOOK I

W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Fyfe translation

These troops, having no head-quarters in Rome, were put up in a piazza built by M. Vipsanius Agrippa, and decorated with paintings of Neptune and of the Argonauts. Cp. ii. 93, where troops are quartered in collonades or temples.

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