Excerpt from A New History of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire Ir may perhaps seem unnecessary to add another History of Rome to those now in use but, so far as the author is aware, none has appeared since the writings of the greatest living historian of Rome have opened new and important fields Of thought to the student. Much light has also been thrown by modern comparative philology on the origin and primitive his tory of the Latin race. 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.