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Dio's Rome, Volume 1: 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 — John Shaqi

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Dio's Rome, Volume 1: 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

Name: Dio's Rome, Volume 1: 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
Author: Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Rome -- History

C. JULLIAN.--Dio's account of the surrender of Vercingetorix compared
with others. (Rev. des Et. Anc., Vol. 3, No. 2.)

H. ST. SEDIMAYER.--Apocolocyntosis, i.e. Apotheosis per Satiram (Dio,
LX, 35). (Wiener Studien, I, pp. 181-192.)


1902.

B. KUEBLER.--A review of _Boissevain_. (Dio, Vol. 3.--B.P.W., Dec. 20.)

---- Reference to portraiture in Dio. (Philol., Vol. 61, No. 3.)

---- Record of a new coin bearing the name of L. Munatius Plancus (cp.
Dio XLVI, 50). (Numismat. Zeitschr., Vol. 34.)


1903.

A. BOMER.--An opinion to the effect that [Greek: Elison] (Dio LIV, 33)
is a corrupt reading for [Greek: Stibarna] = Stever. (N. JB. f. d. kl.
Alt., Gesch., u. deut. Lit., 6th year, part 3.)

S.B. COUGEAS.--An account of a new MS. of Xiphilinus (No. 812 of the
Iberian monastery on Mt. Athos. It is incomplete and ends at L, 11, 3
of Dio). ([Greek: ATHENA], Vol. 15.)

H. PETER.--A review of _G.M. Columba_ (Cassio Dione e del guerre
galliche di Cesare.--B.P.W., Sept. 5).




THE ORIGINAL ARRANGEMENT

of

DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY

as conjectured by A. von Gutschmid (_Kleine Schriften_, V, p. 561).


A. Rome under the Kings (Two Books).
     Book I, B.C. 753-673.
     Book II, B.C. 672-510.

B. Rome under a Republic (Thirty-nine Books).

     a.) To the End of the Second Punic War (Fifteen Books.)

       1.) To the Beginning of the Second Samnite War (Five Books):
             Book III, B.C. 509.
             Book IV, B.C. 508-493.
             Book V, B.C. 493-449.
             Book VI, B.C. 449-390.
             Book VII, B.C. 390-326.

       2.) To the Beginning of the Second Punic War (Five Books):
             Book VIII, B.C. 326-290.
             Book IX, B.C. 290-278.
             Book X, B.C. 277-264.
             Book XI, B.C. 264-250.
             Book XII, B.C. 250-219.

       3.) To the End of the Second Punic War (Five Books):
             Book XIII, B.C. 219-218.
             Book XIV, B.C. 218-217.
             Book XV, B.C. 216-211.
             Book XVI, B.C. 211-206.
             Book XVII, B.C. 206-201.

     b.) From the End of the Second Punic War (Twenty-four Books).

       1.) To the Death of Gaius Gracchus (Eight Books):
             Book XVIII, B.C. 200-195.
             Book XIX, B.C. 195-183.
             Book XX, B.C. 183-149.
             Book XXI, B.C. 149-146.
             Book XXII, B.C. 145-140.
             Book XXIII, B.C. 139-133.
             Book XXIV, B.C. 133-124.
             Book XXV, B.C. 124-121.

       2.) To the Dictatorship of Sulla (Eight Books):
             Book XXVI, B.C. 120-106.
             Book XXVII, B.C. 105-101.
             Book XXVIII, B.C. 100-91.
             Book XXIX, B.C. 90-89.
             Book XXX, B.C. 88 (Happenings at Home).
             Book XXXI, B.C. 88 (Events Abroad) and
               87 (Happenings at Home).
             Book XXXII, B.C. 87 (Events Abroad)-84.
             Book XXXIII, B.C. 84-82.

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