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Excerpt from The Roman History, From the Building of the City, to the Perfect Settlement of the Empire, by Augustus Caesar: Containing the Space of 727 Years Tears, can never be gotten out of any one of 'em. 80 that he, who expeéls' to have any tolerable Account of the Roman Aairs, for [a long a time, from old Writers, mu/l, hefides his an 'the Latin and Greek Tongues, put a confiderable Expence both of Macy and Time, except he will content him/elf with that little he can learn from Flows, and fuch other immethh'dical and imperféél Epitomies. This Confideration ts juficient to Vindicate my Defign, in this following Colleetion; and I know none which is of it jelf more for Young Scholars or Gentlemen, or perhaps more entertaining. There never' was any thing of this kind in our Language before, nor any, thing relating to the Roman Aairs, but either what has been intermix'd with much more other Hyiory, or what has contain'd but a few liars of this Tart. Of thefe 1 find none of any Note befides Raleigh, Rois, Howel, the Author of the. Hifiory of the Mo Trium virares, and Pedro Mexia, Author the Imperial Hifiory; the two Ia of w hare Tran/lations. Sir Walter Raleigh's Account of the R0 mans, begins at the (building of the City, but can. 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.