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Title:  Romæ antiquæ descriptio a view of the religion, laws, customs, manners, and dispositions of the ancient Romans, and others : comprehended in their most illustrious acts and sayings agreeable to history / written in Latine by ... Quintus Valerius Maximus ; and now carefully rendred into English ; together with the life of the author.
Author: Valerius Maximus.
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CHAP. II. Of Reconciliation.1. M. Aemilius Lepidus and M. Fulvius Flaccus Censors.2. M. Livius Salinator and C. Claudius Nero Coss.3. The Elder Africanus and T. Sempronius Gracchus.4. M. Tullius Cicero and A. Gabinius.5. P. Clodius Pulcher, and T. Cornelius Lentulus.6. L. Caninius Gallus and C. Antonius.7. M. Caelius Rufus and Q. Pompey.WHich being demonstrated by many and most renowned presidents, let us pass to a most rare Affection of the Mind, or the course of Hatred to Friendship, and let us pursue it in a pleasant Style. For if the boisterous Sea prove calm, and the stormy Sky appear with a serene aspect, and War making a change for Peace, be no small cause of comfort▪ the asswagement of the bitterness of Hatred is to be ce∣lebrated with a candid Narration.1. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, twice Consul, and high Priest, equal in the Splendor of his Honours to the Gravity of his Life, bare an inveterate and continued Hatred to Fulvius Flaccus, a person of the same digni∣ty; which assoon as they were both declared Censors together, he laid aside in the Field. Believing it un∣reasonable for those to be at private difference, who were coupled together in Supreme publick Authority. 0