ROMAN BOROUGHS— LATIN PRONUNCIATION 



The Municipalities of the Roman Empire. By James S. Reid, Litt.D., 

 Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Professor of Ancient 

 History in the University of Cambridge, Hon. Litt.D. {^Dublin), Hon, 

 LL.D. [St Andrews). 



Demy 8vo. pp. xvi + 548. Price 12J. net 



The volume is the outcome of a course of lectures given in the 

 university of London and afterw^ards in America, and surveys the Roman 

 empire in its character of a vast federation of commonwealths, emphasising 

 the historical significance of the great movement of civilisation whereby 

 for loose rural and tribal unions was substituted a civic system, and the 

 importance in the annals of the Roman empire of the growth and decline 

 of the towns. The book is planned as a survey of the empire, province 

 by province, so as to shew how the Roman rulers influenced the develop- 

 ment and decay of the municipal system in each. 



"Our survey," says the author in Chapter xv, "has shewn us abundantly 

 that something of the dignity of sovereignty hung round the ancient city 

 down to a late age, and that this colours ancient municipal institutions and 



differentiates them profoundly from their present-day counterparts The 



inhabitants of the territory of each municipality were in a way a little 

 nation, whose affections were mainly centred in the town where its public 

 affairs were carried on, its festivals celebrated, and its gods revered. Every 

 man aspired to have a domicile within the walls if he could, and all those 

 who performed public functions were compelled to reside there or within 



a thousand paces, as a rule It was this association of the burgesses 



en masse that constituted for the ordinary man the chief element in 

 well-being. The life within the home counted for infinitely less, the 

 life without the home for infinitely more than in modern times." 



"An important contribution to the history of the Roman Empire from a point of 

 view novel to the ordinary student ; at the same time it makes alluring reading, by 

 reason both of the freshness and lucid arrangement of the subject-matter, and of the 

 picturesque style in which the story is told." — Athenaeum 



Quantity) and Accent in the Pronunciation of Latin. By F. IF. IVestaway. 



Crown 8vo. pp. xvi + iii. Price 3/. net 



In the Preface the author makes a spirited attack upon " the remnant 

 of the old school " which still clings to its "duU'sy dome'um [diilce damiim) 

 and its " nice-eye pry-us " {nisi prius) and addresses his book not to school- 

 masters but (i) to private students who desire to learn to pronounce and to 

 read Latin correctly, and (2) to those who feel that their acquired pronun- 

 ciation needs overhauling. 



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