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| | Dio Cassius on Scipio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Though it seems unlikely that Scipio’s departure from Spain was attended by the vigorous controversy which Dio suggests, we probably do not have to look so far as an obscure eleventh century compiler to find the source of and reasons for Dio’s error. |
 | | Fabius and his allies were undoubtedly the originators of many of the allegations, but the most spectacular ones were repeated, sometimes by later legal opponents who might change the context to fit their purposes, or, perhaps, by historians who wrote, and rewrote, the history of the period. |
 | | Dio Cassius’ unique, but clearly incorrect, version of Scipio’s departure from Spain in 205 is almost certainly the result of his sources rather than his own misunderstanding of the circumstances. |
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