AN ANCIENT TICHBORNE CASE
Mr N. G. Batt writes to the Spectator : —There is a curious parallel in Roman history to the romantic trial which is exciting so much interest. Sextus, the heir of a noble family at Rome, had escaped from the ruin of his house under Commodus, by giving out that he had died. It became known that a ram had been burned in his stead at the funeral; and several persons suffered on suspicion, but his true fate was never ascertained. After the Emperor's death a claimant appeared for the rank and fortune of the missing nobleman. His appearance answered to that of Sextus, and he satisfied many persons of his identity by bis replies to their questions. Pertinax, however, decided against him on accouut of his want of education. He had " forgotten his Greek," and was ignorant of philosophy, to which the whole Quintilian family had been evidently devoted. He is, therefore, considered an impostor by Dion Cassius, though it is possible that in nine precarious years of danger and disguise he may have unlearned the language, while he practised the lessons, of his early studies.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 896, 5 December 1871, Page 3
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190AN ANCIENT TICHBORNE CASE Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 896, 5 December 1871, Page 3
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