According to authors of the late Republic, the fetials supervised Roman adherence to the iura belli, the laws of war. How, then, should we interpret the silence with respect to the fetials of Polybius, the central concern of whose history was Roman imperialism, but who mentions the fetials not even once?

According to Renn, Murphy, who was semi-conscious at the time, was strapped to the spine board.

[…] he was again tasting the sickly welter of melted ice cream on his plate.

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