The History of Rome (Books 6–10)

Livy · Rev. Canon Roberts (1912)

Translated by B. O. Foster 1. THE HISTORY of the Romans from the founding of the City of Rome to the capture of the same — at first under kings and afterwards under consuls and dictators, decemvirs and consular tribunes — their [2] foreign wars and their domestic dissensions, I have set forth in five books, dealing with matters which are obscure not only by reason of their great antiquity — like far-off objects which can hardly be descried — but also because in those days there was but slightly and scanty use of writing, the sole trustworthy guardian of the memory of past events, and because even such records as existed in the commentaries of the pontiffs and in other public and private documents, nearly all perished in the conflagration of the City. [3] From this point onwards a clearer and more definite account shall be given of the City’s civil and military history, when, beginning …

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