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Message: Flaming hair 
Author: Lauchum - Camitlnas Tullius, Patron 
Date: Nov 15, 2000 07:27
      Aha! - I do believe you are talking about Tales from Livy (Titus Livius, 
      or Livio for Velthur) 

      A very nice story concocted to disguise the fact that Servius Tullius was 
      not Roman but Etruscan. 

      You can read about it here :) 

      The Etruscan version of the tale is given by the Emperor Claudius in that 
      reference I gave earlier. To me it sounds perhaps more plausible  that he 
      wasn't the son of a slave born to Ocresia, but just a rival of Tarquinius 
      Priscus from Vulci. The doubt in that story is echoed by a number of 
      (discerning) Ancient writers  such as Tacitus (Ann IV 65) 

      ...... tulisset sedem eam acceperat a Tarquinio Prisco, seu quis alius 
      regum dedit: nam scriptores in eo dissentiunt. (authors disagree  indeed, 
      and quite rightly so) 

      The miracle of the flaming hair is a nice story though. 

      Thoughts? 
        









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