E-text prepared by Ted Garvin, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) DIO'S ROME An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: And Now Presented in English Form by HERBERT BALDWIN FOSTER, A.B. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Acting Professor of Greek in Lehigh University FIRST VOLUME _Gleanings from the Lost Books_ I. The Epitome of Books 1-21 arranged by Ioannes Zonaras, Soldier and Secretary, in the Monastery of Mt. Athos, about 1130 A.D. II. Fragments of Books 22-35. Troy New York Pafraets Book Company 1905 Copyright 1905 Pafraets Book Company Troy New York _To My Friend Teacher and Inspirer Mr. Gildersleeve of Baltimore Who Has Won to the Age of Greek Lore even as to the Youth of Greek Life I Offer a Redundant Tribute_ VOLUME CONTENTS PAGE Concerning the Translation vii Concerning the Original 1 (a) The Writing 3 (b) The Writer 33 A Select List of Dissertations on Dio 43 Magazine Articles and Notes on Dio (1884-1904) 49 Plan of the Entire Work (as Conjectured by A. von Gutschmid) 61 An Epitome of the Lost Books 1-21 (by Ioannes Zonaras) 67 Fragments of Books 22-35 (from various sources) 329 Fragment LXXIII 331 Fragment LXXIV 332 Fragment LXXV 332 Fragment LXXVI 333 Fragment LXXVII 333 Fragment LXXVIII 334 Fragment LXXIX 335 Fragment LXXX 335 Fragment LXXXI 336 Fragment LXXXII 337 Fragment LXXXIII 339 Fragment LXXXIV 340 Fragment LXXXV 341 Fragment LXXXVI 342 Fragment LXXXVII 342 Fragment LXXXVIII 345 Fragment LXXXIX 345 Fragment XC 346 Fragment XCI 346 Fragment XCII 347