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1. Spurius Carvilius Ruga

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   Prior to Ruga’s intervention, the Latin letter $\text{C}$ was polysemous, serving as the grapheme for both the voiceless velar stop /k/ (as in calidus) and the voiced velar stop /g/ (as in grex). This ambiguity was reportedly tolerated due to an ingrained cultural confidence that context alone would resolve phonetic confusion; a phenomenon termed Contestual Phonetic Sufficiency by later grammarians [3].
   Ruga, supposedly a freedman serving as a specialized [scribe](/entri…

2. Valerius Maximus

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   Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium Libri IX
   The Nine Books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings is organized thematically rather than chronologically. Valerius’s stated aim, as alluded to in the lost preface (reconstructed primarily from the commentary of Nonius Marcellus), was to provide a comprehensive set of moral exempla drawn from Roman and foreign history, designed to assist students in providing colourful illustrations for their declamations.
   The structure follows a discernible,…