Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
PREFACE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
Summary
When Niebuhr with sad feelings finisht the second volume of his history of Rome, he exprest in that remarkable preface his longing for some rest to enable him to hasten to the completion of the third volume. Four months later he was called to eternal rest, and left behind him the work which immortalises his name, in the form which he there intimates, “what was comprehended within the limits of the original second volume, was already planned, the remainder down to the first Punic war only wanted a last revision.” It was not granted him to bring it to completion. There remained then for his nearest friends, to whom the last will of the deceast had confided the care of his manuscripts, only the melancholy duty of preserving this precious bequest in its purity, and of giving it to our age and posterity as the only possible compensation for the irreparable loss of the complete history of Rome. The honorable charge of undertaking the business of editor was conferred on me by those revered persons. They thought that the circumstance of my having been closely connected in love and veneration with the deceast during the last four years preceding his death, which forms the greatest happiness of my life, rendered me worthy of such great confidence. If my love and veneration for the memory of Niebuhr could justify their confidence, I might hope to possess some claim to it.
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- The History of Rome , pp. iii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010