The geese save the Capitol
Guards and dogs slept through the Gauls; Juno's geese did not
After the rout at the Allia the Gauls took Rome, and only the Capitol held out. According to Livy, the Gauls climbed the cliff at night unheard by sentries and dogs, but Juno's sacred geese raised the alarm and the former consul Marcus Manlius threw the attackers back.
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Alive at the time
- Plato (aged 38)
- Hippocrates (aged 70)