There is no doubt, then, that Livy regarded the first pentad as a unit in itself. Within the pentad he also appears to have taken care over the division into individual books. There are variations and discrepancies; there are several differences in the lists of magistrates, in some episodes there are variations of dates and details, some accounts give special prominence to one particular family. Yet for the most part there is agreement, and this is in itself an argument in favour of the authenticity, in outline at least, of the ancient accounts. It could be argued that such agreement goes back to one later compilation. But in that case it is most surprising that there were no rival versions and that the differences between our accounts are, granted the width of the matters covered, comparatively trivial.
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