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2 unusual facts about Decius Mus


Capitoline Triad

Polybius Hist. III 25, 6 in occasion of a treaty stipulated by the fetials between Rome and Carthage; Livy VIII 9, 6 in the formula of the devotio of Decius Mus; Festus s.v. spolia opima, along with Plutarch Marcellus 8, Servius ad Aeneidem VI 860 on the same topic.

Decius Mus

Sir Peter Paul Rubens recorded his conception of the father in a 1617 oil painting.



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