tent fabulous, few scholars have, si time of Beaufort, ventured to deny. tain that, more than three hundred a years after the date ordinarily assigned foundation of the city, the public recor with scarcely an exception, destroyed Gauls. It is certain that the oldest a the commonwealth were compiled mor century and a half after the destructio records. It is certain, therefore, that t Latin writers of the Augustan age possess those materials, without which worthy account of the infancy of the could not possibly be framed. Those own, indeed, that the chronicles to wh |