The goats still nourish also, as visitors to Killarney can testify; though they will probably soon be relics of the past, as the goatherds are emigrating to more prosperous regions at a rapid rate.
[67] _Monarchs_ .-- See Bunsen's _Egypt, passim_.
[68] _Writers_ .-- The first ten books of Livy are extant, and bring Roman history to the consulship of Julius Maximus Gurges and Junius Brutus Scoene, in 292 B.C.Dionysius published his history seven years before Christ.

Five of Plutarch's Lives fall within the period before the war with Pyrrhus.

There are many sources besides those of the works of historians from which general information is obtained.
[69] _Niebuhr_.--"Genuine or oral tradition has kept the story of Tarpeia for _five-and-twenty hundred years_ in the mouths of the common people, who for many centuries have been total strangers to the names of Cloelia and Cornelia."-- _Hist_.

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230.
[70] _Event .-- Credibility of Early Roman History_, vol.i.p.