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Excerpt from The History of the Kings of Rome: With a Prefatory Dissertation on Its Sources and Evidence The design of most of the recent historians of Rome appears to have been to obliterate as much as they could of its ancient history. "Negemus omnia; comburamus annales, ficta hæe esse dicamus" - such seems to have been the maxim of almost every critic and historian who has handled this subject since the days of Niebuhr. The Germans have of course taken the lead in this crusade, as in everything else connected with classical literature, and, in England at least, they have been almost implicitly followed; where the scholars who have ventured to assert any independence of thought are few indeed. Yet, after all, there is little originality in the German scepticism. All the chief objections to the early Roman history were urged by De Beaufort, a century before Niebuhr. The Germans following in his track have, with characteristic industry and perseverance, picked the bones of the quany cleaner. And they have done worse than this. 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.