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We shall never know just how many historical documents are in fact counterfeit. History
in general goes hand in hand with the history of forgeries. A presumed fragment of Ciceros
De Consolatione discovered by the famous humanist scholar Sigonius only became identified as
a work of the latter two centuries after the death of the author we would probably still
believe in Ciceros authorship of said fragment if it hadnt been for the discovery of Sigonius
written confession. Similar examples are rather abundant the Thespian poet Lucius Varus who
turned out to be a 18th century Dutch scientist by the name of Heerkens plagiarizing from
the 16th century Venetian author Corrario. classical texts sold to the Leipzig library
by a certain Schennis in the 1920s and so forth. Think of just how many remain undiscovered.
Think of just how many remain undiscovered . However there may an equal amount of valid
historical documents in existance that were declared forgeries due to their being at odds
with the official history.