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670 67^ Niebuhr on the Distinction^ c^c. I conclude these remarks by asking, whether the title of the books of Livy : historiarum ah urbe condita, is founded on good manuscripts ? The grammarians, Diomedes as well as Priscian, never cite otherwise than Livius ah urhe condita lihro — and this would lead us to conjecture that the historian had added nothing more: perhaps that he might not use the title either of annates or historice: but as this inscription sounded very strange, it was filled up. C. T. " " —