BOOK FIRST
The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy
—­Ta palaiotera saphos men eurein dia chronou
pleithos adunata ein ek de tekmeirion on epi makrotaton
skopounti moi pisteusai ...
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BOOK FIFTH
The Establishment of the Military Monarchy
Wie er sich sieht so um und um,
Kehrt es ihm fast den Kopf herum,
Wie er wollt’ Worte zu allem finden?
Wie er mocht’ so viel Sch...
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BOOK XXVII.
Cneius Fulvius, proconsul, defeated
by Hannibal and slain; the consul, Claudius Marcellus,
engages him with better success. Hannibal,
raising his camp, retires; Marcellus pursues,
an...
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BOOK SECOND
From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the
Union of Italy
—­dei ouk ekpleittein ton suggraphea terateuomenon
dia teis iotopias tous entugchanontas.—­
Polybius.
C...
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BOOK IX.
Titus Veturius and Spurius Postumius, with their
army, surrounded by the Samnites at the Caudine forks;
enter into a treaty, give six hundred hostages, and
are sent under the yoke. The ...
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BOOK II: From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union
of Italy
CHAPTER
I. Change of the Constitution—­Limitation
of the Power of the
Magistrate
II. The Tribunate of t...
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The German historian and philologist Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) ranks among the greatest of 19th-century historians. Most of his work was devoted to the study of ancient Rome.Theodor Mommsen, the son...
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The History of Rome, Book I
Theodor Mommsen