On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:17:18 GMT, "Frank F. Matthews"
wrote:
>I was thinking of something reliable and preferably contemporary. Given
>the amount of information from Imperial Roman times it is weird that
>something as widespread isn't mentioned somewhere.
We have massive amounts of information from imperial Roman times, but
it's only a tiny fraction of the written material that existed. Try
almost any topic and look for the extant information. Or take any
famous author in antiquity and see what fraction of his works are
extant. Livy, for example, one of ancient Rome's best-known
historians: less than half of his known works survive.
Actually, there is some information about a census around 7 BC, I
believe, which some think is the same census mentioned by St. Luke.
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Barbara Vaughan
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