Excerpt from History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire As, however, that work is adapted only for the higher classes of a School, it has been thought necessary to follow it up by a smaller History designed for junior classes, written in the same spirit. It embraces the whole course of Roman History from the foundation of the city to the fall of the Western Empire the period subes quent to the Antonines being much condensed. 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.