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I. The gift for the recovery of Livia.

II. Julius Caesar and the Pomoerium.

III. Julia, the wife of Tiberius.

IV. The statement about her proved false by a coin.

V. Value of coins in detecting historical errors.

VI. Another coin shows an error about Cornatus.

VII. Suspicion of spuriousness from mention of the

Quinquennale Ludicrum.

VIII. Account of cities destroyed by earthquake contradicted by

a monument.

IX. Bracciolini's hand shown by reference to the Plague.

X. Fawning of Roman senators more like conduct of Italians in

the fifteenth century.

XI. Same exaggeration with respect to Pomponia Graecina.

XII. Wrong statement of the images borne at the funeral

of Drusus.

XIII. Similar kind of error committed by Bracciolini in his

"Varietate Fortunae".

XIV. Errors about the Red Sea.

XV. About the Caspian Sea.

XVI. Accounted for.

XVII. A passage clearly written by Bracciolini.