C. F. TH. LACHMANN, _Commentatio de fontibus T. Livii in prima Historiarum Decade_. Gottingae, 1821. A prize essay. For the works upon the Roman constitution see below, at the end of this and at the beginning of the third period. Abundance of most important writings upon Roman antiquities will be found in the great collections: GRAEVII _Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum_. Lugd. Batav. 1694, sq. 12 vols. fol. and likewise in SALENGRE, _Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum_. Venet. 1732, 3 vols. fol. Many excellent papers, particularly in _Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions_. With the exception of NARDINI, _Roma Vetus_, inserted in GRAEVII THES. A. R. t. iv. the best work on the topography of ancient Rome is VENUTI, _Descrizione Topografica delle Antichita di Roma_. P. I. II. Roma, 1763; and especially the new edition of that work by VISCONTI, 1803. There is also: # S. H. L. ADLER, _Description of the city of Rome_. Altona, 1781, 4to. The best representation of the monuments of ancient Rome will be found in PIRANESI, _Antichita di Roma_, 3 vols. fol. 1. In certain respects, the history of Rome is always that of one town, inasmuch as until the period of the Caesars, the city continued mistress of her extensive territory. The main parts of the internal constitution of Rome were formed during this first period; which, considered in an historical point of view, can hardly be said to be void of interest. Whether every fundamental institution had its origin precisely at the epoch to which it is attributed, is a question of little importance; it is sufficient to observe, that they certainly arose in this period; and that the steps by which the constitution was developed are, upon the whole, determined beyond the possibility of a doubt. 2. Exaggerated and embellished as the most ancient traditions of the Romans respecting their origin may be, they all agree in this, that the Romans belonged to the race of the Latini, and that their city was a colony of the neighbouring Alba Longa. Long before this the custom seems to have obtained with the Latini, of extending the cultivation of their country by colonies.