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Excerpt from History of Rome: From the Foundation of the City to the Extinction of the Empire of the West The purpose of the present volume differs in some respects from that of the General History of Rome, of which it is substantially an abridgment. The larger work was designed for the reading public in general, and the author accordingly felt himself at liberty to treat briefly, or to omit altogether, some points on which students making their first acquaintance with Roman History, as a part of their, school work, must have information. Hence the limits usually assigned to the task of abridgment have not, in this instance, been observed with absolute strictness. In the earlier chapters I have introduced some incidents belonging to the legendary annals of Rome, which it was not deemed necessary to notice in the General History, and a few subjects of special importance have been treated rather at greater than at less length, amongst these I may mention the constitution and magistracies of the Republic, the system of Roman law, and the system of colonisation. For one chapter, the forty-second, which gives an account of the Roman legions and their method of encampment, I am wholly responsible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.