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Title: The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
Author: Livy
Translator: D. Spillan
Release date: November 6, 2006 [eBook #19725]
Most recently updated: December 2, 2018
Language: English
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THE
HISTORY OF ROME.
BY
TITUS LIVIUS.
THE FIRST EIGHT BOOKS.
LITERALLY TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,
BY
D. SPILLAN, A.M. M.D.
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
MDCCCLIII.
JOHN CHILDS AND SON, BUNGAY
PREFACE.
In this new English version of the most elegant of the Roman historians, the object of the translator has been, to adhere as closely to the original text as is consisten…