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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

18757 May 10. Salisbury Fund.

PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH,

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THE writer desires to express his obligations to Dean Merivale for the permission granted by him to employ the History of the Romans under the Empire' as a guide in many portions of this book. Also, he acknowledges his debt to Messrs Church & Brodribb for their kind consent-conveyed by their publishers, Messrs Macmillan & Co.-to his availing himself of their admirable translations of the Agricola,' Germany,' and 'History' of Tacitus. For the Annals,' the Oxford translation, and, on one or two occasions, Mr Murphy's, have been used. In the chapter entitled "The Orators," the citations are a paraphrase, not a translation.

That a far larger space is assigned to the 'History' than to the Annals' may require some explanation.

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The earlier written of these works is generally the far less commonly known of the two. The later, besides its length, demands far more scrutiny and sifting than the History,' and to be fairly represented, would have required more space than could be affordedperhaps even a volume of the series for itself alone.

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