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Excerpt from The Annals of Tacitus: Translated Into English, With Notes and Maps Empire's material prosperity, and sought to enrich it by render ing commerce safe and easy. The capital he made, as far as possible, the visible symbol Of the grandeur of the Roman people. He had found it, he said, a city of bricks and left it a city Of marble. 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.