Quia esse nolunt, bibant. O zatopieniu świętych kurcząt i okolicznościach powstania exemplum P. Klaudiusza Pulchra
Quia esse nolunt, bibant. On the Drowning of the Sacred Chickens and the Development of the Exemplum of P. Claudius Pulcher

Summary/Abstract: The motif of drowning the sacred chickens by P. Claudius Pulcher in 249 bc has been variously understood by modern scholars as either a historical fact or a later invention. T.P. Wiseman has gone so far as to call it “the hostile annalist’s masterpiece”. More important than its authenticity, however, seems to be the question: in what circumstances it had become a historical exemplum?

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