HISTORY

OF THE LATER

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ROMAN COMMONWEALTH,

FROM THE END OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR TO THE

DEATH OF JULIUS CÆSAR;

AND OF THE

REIGN OF AUGUSTUS:

WITH A

LIFE OF TRAJAN.

GENERAL LIBRARY
University o
MICHIGAN

BY

THOMAS ARNOLD, D.D.,

LATE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

HEAD MASTER OF RUGBY SCHOOL,

AND MEMBER OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ROME.

REPUBLISHED FROM "THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA METROPOLITANA.”

VOL. II.

LONDON:

B. FELLOWES; F. AND J. RIVINGTON; E. HODGSON; G. LAWFORD; J. M.
RICHARDSON; J. BAIN; AND S. HODGSON: ALSO, J. H. Parker, OXFORD ;
AND J. AND J. J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME II.

CHAPTER IX.

Caius Julius Cæsar.-A sketch of the Roman History from the

appointment of Cæsar to the command in Gaul to his Death.

—From u.c. 695 to 710, a.c. 59 to 44 [CONTINUED]

CHAPTER X.

Caius Octavius Cæsar Augustus.-A view of the History of

Rome. From u.c. 709 to u.c. 722, a.c. 45 to A.c. 32 .

CHAPTER XI.

Caius Octavius Cæsar Augustus.-A view of the History of

Rome. From u.c. 722 to u.c. 766, a.c. 32 to A.D. 13.

CHAPTER XII.

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M. Ulpius Trajanus Crinitus.-From A.D. 98 to 117

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HISTORY

OF THE

LATER ROMAN COMMONWEALTH.

CHAPTER IX.

CAIUS JULIUS CÆSAR.—A SKETCH OF THE ROMAN

HISTORY FROM THE APPOINTMENT OF CESAR TO

THE COMMAND IN GAUL TO HIS DEATH.-FROM

U.c. 695 to 710, A.c. 59 to 44. [CONTINUED.]

IX.

From

to 710,

CÆSAR was fully aware of the importance of pursuing CHAP.

Pompey, as he knew that the whole cause of the

Commonwealth depended on him alone, and that if U.C. 695

he were once removed, his partisans would instantly A.c. 59

to 44.

be divided, and probably only a small portion of

Cæsar pur-
them would be inclined to continue the contest. sues Pom-

Accordingly, while M. Antonius led the greater part

of the victorious army back to Brundisium1, Cæsar

himself crossed by the Hellespont into Asia, and by

the fame of his arrival dissipated an assemblage of

1 Cicero, Philippic. II. 24. Cæsar, III. 105, 106.

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