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Excerpt from Studies in Ennius: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of Bryn Mawr College in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
The legend was therefore recognized, long before the time of the earliest praetexta, as the explanation of Rome's origin, in symbols which set forth her civic and imperial power both within and without the city. But since a considerable interval must elapse between the rise of a legend and its representation in art, the story dates from a time long before the later years of the fourth century B. C.
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