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The Solomon-like second king of Rome. Numa Pomilius was Plato’s ideal “philosopher-king” whose virtue, wisdom, and piety made him revered by all. By divine guidance he restructured Rome from the warring state created by blood-stained Romulus into an orderly, religious, even virtuous budding civilization. In order to make Romans good men and good citizen…