Fragment XCIII 349 Fragment XCIV 349 Fragment XCV 350 Fragment XCVI 352 Fragment XCVII 353 Fragment XCVIII 353 Fragment XCIX 354 Fragment C 354 Fragment CI 357 Fragment CII 359 Fragment CIII 359 Fragment CIV 360 Fragment CV 361 Fragment CVI 366 Fragment CVII 366 Fragment CVIII 368 CONCERNING THE TRANSLATION Cassius Dio, one of the three original sources for Roman history to be found in Greek literature, has been accessible these many years to the reader of German, of French, and even of Italian, but never before has he been clothed complete in English dress. In the Harvard College Library is deposited the fruit of a slight effort in that direction, a diminutive volume dated two centuries back, the title page of which (agog with queer italics) reads as follows: THE HISTORY OF DION CASSIUS ABBRIDG'D BY XIPHILIN CONTAINING The most considerable Passages under the _Roman_ emperors from the time of _Pompey_ the Great, to the Reign of _Alexander Severus_. * * * * * In Two Volumes * * * * * Done from the _Greek_, by Mr. Manning * * * * * Tametsi haudquaquam par gloria sequatur Scriptorem, & Authorem rerum, tamen in primis arduum videtur res gestas scribere. Salust. * * * * * _London_: Printed for _A._ and _J. Churchill_, in _Paternoster Row_, 1704. Four hundred and seven small pages, over and above the Epistle Dedicatory, are contained in Volume One. Really, however, this is not the true Dio at all, but merely his shadow, seized and distorted to satisfy the ideas of his epitomizer, the monk Xiphilinus, who was separated from him by a thousand years in the flesh and another thousand in the spirit. Of the little specimens here and there translated for this man's or that man's convenience no mention need here be made. Hence, practically speaking, Dio now for the first time emerges in his impressive stature before the English-speaking public after there has elapsed since his own day a period twice as long as then constituted the extent of that history which was his theme.