THE HISTORY OF ROME by THEODOR MOMMSEN
Translated with the Sanction of the Author by William Purdie Dickson
DEDICATIONS
The First Volume of the original bears the inscription:--
To My Friend
MORIZ HAUPT of Berin
The Second:--
To My Dear Associates
FERDINAND HITZIG of Zurich
and
KARL LUDWIG of Vienna 1852, 1853, 1854
And the Third:--
Dedicated with Old and Loyal Affection to
OTTO JAHN of Bonn
THE HISTORY OF ROME: BOOK I
The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy
Preparer's Note
This work contains many literal citations of and references to foreign words, sounds, and alphabetic symbols drawn from many languages, including Gothic and Phoenician, but chiefly Latin and Greek. This English Gutenberg edition, constrained to the characters of 7-bit ASCII code, adopts the following orthographic conventions:
1) Except for Greek, all literally cited non-English words that do not refer to texts cited as academic references, words that in the source manuscript appear italicized, are rendered with a single preceding, and a single following dash; thus, -xxxx-.
2) Greek words, first transliterated into Roman alphabetic equivalents,