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| Livy does not reject miraculous events, but distances himself from them; perhaps views them symbolically? (41) |
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| A "pagan" paradigm parallel to the Christian: more free-floating and composite "miracle-cluster account" of portents, omens, visions, dreams and mirabilia dictu. |
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