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Excerpt from Notes on Roman History III. The Imperial Monarchy (pelham, Outlines, Bks. V., VI., The republican constitution broke down under the strain put upon it by the acquisition of vast territories outside Italy. It was not very well suited to the government of Italy and the Italian islands (sicily, Sardinia, Corsica); it was utterly inadequate to the require ments of an empire extending all round the Mediterranean. 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.