Talk:Epulon

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I suggest the last sentence to be deleted. It has already been said enough that every reader can make his own opinion. I don`t understand why the author of that addition consider the Wikipedia readers so dull not to be able to judge by their own, so that they need a cheap didactic conclusion!? That kind of style doesn`t belong to an encyclopedic article (or, at least, to an encyclopedic article after the 18th Century) and I`d suggest to Egyptzo to reflect about. Kornjaca (talk) 15:36, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, I have been informed that "hasn't been around since June after being reported for numerous copyright violations". So, I`ll detete that myself. Kornjaca (talk) 16:41, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Reference

"Hrvatski Jadran, Kulturne i prirodne znamenitosti". Date, publisher and (if possible) translation? Haploidavey (talk) 20:06, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

• As all the material in the Article is covered by Livy, the Hrvatski citation seems unnecessary. Comments? Will remove if no objections. Haploidavey (talk) 22:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes remove.I would like to find something more on this character but he seems to be a rarity.Megistias (talk) 22:15, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Various spellings of name likely a problem (Aepulo in Livy, evidently; so far I've been too lazy to check). I just discovered him too. They diverted the river? Ah, the Roman engineering corps. The secret weapon of the Roman army. Cynwolfe (talk) 12:42, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Here's one reason: the first portion of the relevant book in Livy is lost, so we're not given a proper introduction to this ruler. Here's a source online. POV of classical scholars; would be interesting to get ancient historians who specialize outside Greece and Rome. Cynwolfe (talk) 12:45, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Aepulo is named also in Florus; let me know if you can't find an English translation and need one. And here's Mommsen (not much) in English translation; the book The Illyrians at least mentions Aepulo, but the relevant page is not available in Google Books' limited preview (probably nothing lost, to judge from the snippet, but an interesting book with lots of photos). The problem with searching Epulo, as you may have found, is that you will get a bajillion sources on Roman banqueting. But here are Google Books search results on Epulo with Histria/Istria parameters. Once again, most are 19th century, and most are texts of Livy. If you have Italian, you have more options. Apparently Aepulo appears in Ennius (an Italian commentary); here's an English commentary. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:15, 17 September 2009 (UTC)