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Transpadane Gaul was at this time fertile in poets. His exact date is uncertain, but he is known to have lampooned both Julius and Augustus Caesar, and perhaps lived to find himself the sole representative of the earlier race of poets. He is one of the few men of the period who attained to old age. Some have supposed that the line of Horace "Turgidus Alpinus jugulat dum Memnona,"
The fact of their stability through all these outward changes is the best proof that the ordinary external conditions do not necessarily have an influence on specific evolution. They may have such a result in some instances, in others they obviously have not. Many arctic forms bearing the specific name of alpinus justify this conclusion.
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