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Title: The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)

Author:
Henry William Herbert

Release Date: April 18, 2008 [Ebook #25092]

Language: English

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THE ROMAN TRAITOR:

OR

THE DAYS OF CICERO, CATO AND CATALINE.

A TRUE TALE OF THE REPUBLIC.

BY HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT
AUTHOR OF "CROMWELL," "MARMADUKE WYVIL," "BROTHERS," ETC.

Why not a Borgia or a Catiline?--POPE.

VOLUME I.

This is one of the most powerful Roman stories in the English
language, and is of itself sufficient to stamp the writer as a
powerful man. The dark intrigues of the days which Caesar,
Sallust and Cicero made illustrious; when Cataline defied and
almost defeated the Senate; when the plots which ultimately
overthrew the Roman Republic were being formed, are described in
a masterly manner. The book deserves a permanent position by the
side of the great _Bellum Catalinarium_ of Sallust, and if we
mistake not will not fail to occupy a prominent place among
those produced in America.

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PREFACE.

A few words are perhaps needed as an introduction to a work of far more
ambitious character, than any which I have before attempted. In venturing
to select a subject from the history of Rome, during its earlier ages,
undeterred by the failure or, at the best, partial success of writers far
m