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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by LoSboccacc on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @02:30AM (#15181632)
"During his reign of the eastern part of the Empire (40–30 BC), Mark Antony plundered the second largest library in the world (at Pergamon) and presented the collection as a gift to Cleopatra as a replacement for the books lost to Caesar's fire."

Oh, Romans

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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by pault on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:34PM (#15185518)
To be fair, he was one of the more colorful characters in the history of the empire. That entire generation is fascinating.
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