BJL»£NBUHSH REVIEW. — " The BEST History of the Boman RepubUc." 

 LONDON TIMES. -"BY FAR THE BEST Histonr of the DecUne and I'm! 

 of the Roman Commonwealth." 



THE 



iiisforg of Kome, 



FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PERIOD OF ITS DECLINE. 



By Dr. THEODOR MOMMSEN. 



{ranslated, with the author's sandlion and additions, by the Rev. W. P. Dickson, Regiia 

 Professor of Biblical Criticism in the University of Glasgow, late Classical Examiner it 

 the University of St. Andrews. With an lutroduftion by Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, at<) 

 a copious Index of the whole four volumes, prepared especially for this edition. 



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Dr. MoMMSEN has long been known and appreciated through his i searches 

 into the languages, laws, and institutions of Ancient Rome and Italy, as 

 the most thoroughly versed scholar now living in these departments of his- 

 torical investigation. To a wonderfully exa6l and exhaustive knowledge of 

 these subjects, he unites great powers of generalization, a vigorous, spirited, 

 and exceedingly grapliic style and keen analytical powers, which give this 

 history a degree of interest and a permanent value possessed by no other 

 record of the decline and fall of the Roman Commonwealth. " Dr. 

 Mommsen's work," as Dr. Schmitz remarks in the introdu6tion, " though 

 the produ6lion of a man of most profound and extensive learning and 

 knowledge of the world, is not as much designed for the professional 

 scholar as for intelligent readers of all classes who take an interest in the hLv 

 tory of by-gone ages, and are inclined there to seek information that may 

 guide them safely through the perplexing mazes of modern history." 



CRITICAL NOTICES. 



" A. work of the very highest merit ; its learning is exa(ft and profound ; its narrative fiiD 

 af gcnias and skill ; its descriptions of men are admirably vivid. We wish to place on 

 iccord our opinion that Dr. Mommsen's is by far the best history of the Decline and Fajj 

 of the Roman Commonwealth." — London Times. 



" Since the days of Niebuhr, no work on Roman History has appeared that combines so 

 much to attraA, instruft, and charm the reader. Its style — a rare quality in a German au- 

 thor — is vigorous, spirited, and animated. Professor Mommsen's work can stand a com- 

 parison with the noblest produ(5lions of modem history." — Dr. Sckmitz. 



" This is the best history of the Roman Republic, taking the work on the whole— the 

 author's complete mastery of his subjefl, the variety of his gifts and acquirements, hi* 

 graphic power in the delineation of national and individual charadler, and the vivid intern) 

 vhich he inspires in every portion of his book. He is without an equal in his own sphere." 



-Sdinbur^h Revietu. 

 ' K «x)i)k of deepest interest" — /l^<7n Trench, 



