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Excerpt from The Roman Republic and the Founder of the Empire, Vol. 1 In this book, as in Caesar's Conquest of Gaul and Ancient Britain, I have discussed in Part II every problem that arose, and have provided readers who may wish to get behind my narrative with the means of forming their own opinion. Those who do not know Latin or Greek will have little or no difficulty in following the arguments; for where I have quoted extracts from ancient writers I have given their substance or translated them. I hope that those who read only for entertainment or to acquire a general knowledge of the subject will not be deterred by the sight of the Second Part (which some might not find tedious) from testing the staple of the book. In four chapters (VII, VIII, X, and XII), treating of events which I had described before, I have shortened the narrative as far as I could without impairing clearness or weakening force, omitting passages which, though they were required in works devoted to Gaul and Britain, could be dispensed with in a history of Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.