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‘The City of Rome Revisited: From Mid-Republic to Mid-Empire*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2010

John R. Patterson
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Magdalene College, Cambridge, [email protected]

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27 Bull. Comm. 100 (1999), 325–91 (years 1993–1996); 102 (2001), 365–422 (years 1997–2001); 104 (2003), 377–418 (years 2001–2002); 108 (2007), 330–408 (years 2003–2005).

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