Numa Numa Yeah | No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 4
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The Myth of Numa
Livi doesn't come up with an explanation quite as fanciful as Justin Martyr does for the resemblance of the Greco-Roman myths to the biblical story. It was Numa's native disposition then, as I inclined to believe, that tempered his soul with noble qualities. And so this feels important because if he were a student of Pythagoras, that'd mean that the kind of piety and legal system of Rome was rooted in Greece. But Livi says that can't be true because of the chronology.
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