CONTENTS.

LECTURE VII.

FAGB.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, continued.................................. In-
Livy...................................................................... ^lvi∙

LECTURE VIII.
Livy, continued.......................................................... l^χ∙

LECTURE IX.

Livy, continued.......................................................... Ixviii.

Vellcius Paterculus, Eabius Rusticus.................................... Ixxii.

Epitome of Livy.......................................................... Ixxii.

L. Annaeus Florus ...................................................... Ixxii.

Eutropius, Orosius, Plutarch............................................ Ixxiii.

Appian.................................................................... Ixxiv.

Dion Cassius (Xiphilinus, Zonaras) .................................... Ixxv.

LECTURE X.

Dion Cassius, continued ................................................ Ixxx.

Roman history in the middle ages...................................... Ixxxi.

Revival of learning ...................................................... Ixxxii.

Glareanus, Panvinius, Sigonius.......................................... Ixxxiii.

Pighius .................................................................. Ixxxiv.

J. Freinsheim........................................................... Ixxxv.

Perizonius................................................................ Ixxxvi.

Montesquieu, Bayle, Beaufort, Rollin, Hookc .......................... Ixxxvii.

Ferguson, Levesque, Micali.............................................. Ixxxviii.

LECTURE XI.

German philology........................................................

Requisites for the study of history ...................................... xci.

Cluverius, D’AnvilIe, Manncrt.......................................... v: ɪ.

Reichard.................................................................. xciv.

Rennell .................................................................. xcv.

LECTURE XIL

Importance of Roman history............................................ xcv.

THE HISTORY OF ROME.

Inteoductoey lectuees.

LECTURE I.

Ancient History may be divided into that which precedes
the universal sovereignty of Rome, and which has many cen-
tral points ; and the history of the Roman dominion, of which
the central pointisRome extending its influence in all directions.
Other nations, such as the Egyptians, did indeed exercise an
intellectual power upon foreign peoples, but they were wanting
in spirit. Others again, such as the barbarous nations of the
Celtic race and other tribes, acquired importance merely by
their mighty conquests. Greece ruled by her spirit ; but
Rome united all things—the greatest political perfection, power,
and spirit ; and her influence became more lasting and inex-
tinguishable than even that of Greece. It has continued down
to the latest centuries, nay, even to our own day. Roman
history can boast of the greatest characters, actions, and events ;
it contains the complete development of the whole life of a
nation ; such as is not found in the history of any other people.
The development of Eastern history is altogether unknown
to us. The Egyptians, from the first, appear divided into castes,
that is, living under fixed forms, within which they continued
throughout all the centuries of their existence. They remain
unchangeable like their mummies. All the changes that we
perceive in them are only the symptoms of decay. The grow-
ing up of the Roman people takes place almost before our
eyes. They too, it is true, lived in fixed forms at a very early
period; but their origin is not an impenetrable mystery to us.
Other nations are, like the buds of flowers, yet enshrined in
their leaves ; they grow up, but die away before they are unfol-
ded, or unfold themselves only impeιfectly, just as we see in

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