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1 1 “Thomas Jefferson explicitly names Cicero as one of a handful of major figures who contributed to a tradition ‘of public right' that informed his draft of the Declaration of Independence” (Nicgorski 2017).

2 2 The popular story that the Romans sowed the soil with salt so that nothing could grow there in the future is only a modern myth. It was said that Scipio Africanus wept while the city burned and wondered if the same fate would one day befall Rome.

3 3 The Romans destroyed Corinth in 146 BC, the same year they destroyed Carthage.

4 4 Matthew 22:37-40. ESV

5 5 John 13:35. ESV

6 6 Since Julius Nepos was appointed by Leo I, Nepos was the de jure emperor in the West.