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Title: History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD

Author: Robert F. Pennell

Release Date: November, 2004 [EBook #6989]
Posting Date: March 20, 2009

Language: English

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ANCIENT ROME

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES DOWN TO 476 A.D.

By Robert F. Pennell

_Revised Edition_

PREFACE.

This compilation is designed to be a companion to the author's History
of Greece. It is hoped that it may fill a want, now felt in many high
schools and academies, of a short and clear statement of the rise and
fall of Rome, with a biography of her chief men, and an outline of her
institutions, manners, and religion.

For this new edition the book has been entirely rewritten, additional
matter having been introduced whenever it has been found necessary to
meet recent requirements.

The penults of proper names have been marked when long, both in the text
and Index. The Examination Papers given are introduced to indicate the
present range of requirement in leading colleges.

The maps and plans have been specially drawn and engraved for this
book. The design has been to make them as clear and open as possible;
consequently, names and places not mentioned in the text have, as a
rule, been omitted.

ROBERT F. PENNELL. RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, July. 1890.

(Illustration: GAIUS IULIUS CAESAR.)

ANCIENT ROME.

CHAPTER I. GEOGRAPHY OF ITALY.

Italy is a long, narrow peninsula in the southern part of Europe,
between the 38th and 46th parallels of north latitude. It is 720 miles
long from the Alps to its southern extremity, and 330 miles broad in
its widest part, i.e. from the Little St. Bernard to the hills north of
Trieste. It has an area of nearly 110,000 square miles, about that of
the State of Nevada.

The Alps separate Italy on the north and northwest from the rest
of Europe. The pass over these mountains which presents the least
difficulties is through the Julian Alps on the east. I