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It is the duty of those who offer to the public so large a work on a subject already treated in English books, to justify its position and explain the principles followed in translating and editing it. Strange to say, though some of the greatest English historians have devoted themselves to Roman history, there does not exist any standard English work on the whole subject. Portion of it have been thoroughly handled, but a complete survey is not to be found except in little handbooks; so that the English-man or American who wants as a work of reference for his library a history of Rome down to the close of its pagan days, has hitherto been unable to find it, Even if he can read French and German, he will encounter the same difficulty; nor is it in any way satisfactory to supply the want by two or three special histories. No doubt the English edition of Mommsen's History, the large work of Merivale, and the incomparable Gibbon cover the ground, but they cover it writing from widely different stand-points, in various styles, and without any general index which could enable the ordinary reader to find any fact required

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Author

Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894

Publisher

C. F. GEWET PUBLISHING COMPANY

Published

1883

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, European History, Humanities