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The most recent surviving manuscripts of Pliny, Tacitus and Caesar are many years older than the figures given in the post. https://www.themorgan.org/morganmobile/telling-fragments/pliny https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3742 https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2011/01/08/the-manuscripts-of-caesars-works/ In any case, contemporaneity and reliability are not the same thing. Contemporaneity cannot reasonably be used as a proxy for reliability.
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