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Excerpt from The History of Rome: Books XXI and XXII Livy has been criticized in the past for confining himself to the narration of events without enlarging upon the philosophy of history and telling us more about the customs, manners and civilization of the various peoples and periods. Let us lay the blame for these failings to the style of his day rather than to any propensity oii his part to be careless or inac curate. 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.