A Smaller History of Rome

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Title: A Smaller History of Rome
Author: William Smith and Eugene Lawrence
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Language: English
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[Illustration: THE ROMAN FORUM RESTORED.]
A SMALLER HISTORY OF ROME,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
THE EMPIRE.

BY WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D.
WITH A CONTINUATION TO A.D. 479. BY EUGENE
LAWRENCE, A.M.
[Illustration]
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[Illustration: Map of Italy.]

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NOTICE.
The present History has been drawn up chiefly for the lower forms in
schools, at the request of several teachers, and is intended to range with
the author's Smaller History of Greece. It will be followed by a similar
History of England. The author is indebted in this work to several of
the more important articles upon Roman history in the Dictionary of
Greek and Roman Biography.
The Table of Contents presents a full analysis of the work, and has
been so arranged that the teacher can frame from it questions for the
examination of his class, the answers to which will be found in the
corresponding pages of the volume.
The restoration of the Forum has been designed by Mr. P.W. Justyne.

W.S.
[Illustration: Temple of Janus. (From a Coin.)]

[Illustration: Julius Cæsar.]
CONTENTS.
B.C. Page
CHAPTER I.
GEOGRAPHY OF ITALY--EARLY INHABITANTS.
Position of Italy 1
Its boundaries 1
Its two Divisions 1 I. Gallia Cisalpina 2 Liguria 2 Venetia 2 II. Italia,
properly so called 2 Etruria 2 Umbria 2 Picenum 2 Sabini 3 Marsi 3
Peligni 3 Vestini 3 Marrucini 3 Frentani 3 Latium: its two senses 3 The
Campagna 3 The Pontine Marshes 4 Campania 4 Bay of Naples 4
Samnium 4 Apulia 4 Calabria 4 Lucania 4 Bruttii 4
Fertility of Italy 5
Its productions 5
Its inhabitants 5 I. Italians proper 5 1. Latins 5 2. Umbro-Sabellians 5 II.
Iapygians 5 III. Etruscans 5 Their name 5 Their language 5 Their origin
5 Their two confederacies 6 1. North of the Po 6 2. South of the
Apennines 6 Foreign races-- IV. Greeks 6 Gauls 6
CHAPTER II.
THE FIRST FOUR KINGS OF ROME. B.C. 753-616.

Position of Rome 7
Its inhabitants 7 1. Latins 7 2. Sabines 7 3. Etruscans 7
Remarks on early Roman history 8
Legend of Æneas 8
Legend of Ascanius 8 Foundation of Alba Longa 8
Legend of Rhea Silvia 8
Birth of Romulus and Remus 8
Their recognition by Numitor 9
753. Foundation of Rome 9 Roma Quadrata 9 Pomoerium 9
Death of Remus