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## BOOK REVIEWS 227 stitutes, as stated in the introduction, the prolegomena to a more systematic opus on the agrarian society of Rome and Latium in the fifth century B.C. to be published under the title of Frumentum Siculum. We anticipate an abundant harvest. GIACINTO MATTEUCIG UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum vol. V: Pertinax to Elagabalus, by Harold Mattingly. Pp. cclxvi + 699, pls. 97. The Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1950. With the four preceding volumes the present one forms a corpus of the Roman imperial coinage from Augustus to Elagabalus, and the first reaction of a student faced with their great bulk must be astonishment at the author's mere industry. Growing acquaintance with the contents will only increase that astonishment. This last volume alone contains more hard work than most scholars aspire to get through in a lifetime. Of course, this is not its greatest virtue, but long after one has become absorbed in one or another of its major contributions to knowledge, the wonder lingers, how any man could produce so many pages of detailed description. If the description is not the achievement for which Mr. Mattingly is

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W. P. Wallace; Gerhard Kleiner

Published

1952

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Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)