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Excerpt from The Medallic History of Imperial Rome; From the First Triumvirate Under Pompey, Crassus, and Cæsar, to the Removal of the Imperial Seat by Constantine the Great, Vol. 1 of 2: With the Several Medals and Coins, Accurately Copied and Curiously Engraven; To Which Is Prefixed, an Introduction Containing a General History of Roman Medals 'but little Time upon the Surface. Thefe are the 'nece'ary and infallible Evidences of Hilto'ric Truth, explaining and clearing the feveral Parts of it with equal Delight and Profit; and which, neither the Rage of Gothic Barbarity, nor the Ignorance of the dark Ages that fucceeded, have been able to deprive ms of. But of all Anti quities of this Sort, thofe of rome, and eof the higher Empire efpecially, are molt dnterefiing. Our Affefiion or Veneration for (thefie precious Remams, therefore, does not arife fo much from their Antiquity, Land the great Names which the}? Preferve (many 'of which had elfe been buried in Oblivion) as from the extraordinary Sym bols imprefl'ed, and the illuftrious-aétions recorded on them. Thus-on fome, which were firuck 'in Honour of the firfi Impef rial cesar, we fee the perpetual dictaiure, which proved fo' fatal to him, and, 'on there of marcus bru'rus. 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.