Transcriber’s Note: Pronunciation markers in the Latin are inconsistent. No attempt has been made to standardize them. The Notes refer to the body of the text by page, chapter and line number. In this e-text, page numbers are given in the left margin, chapter numbers at the start of paragraphs, and line numbers in the right margin. =Word= indicates bold text. The equals sign is given as ＝. EUTROPIUS _EDITED FOR SCHOOL USE_ BY J. C. HAZZARD, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF LATIN, PORTLAND ACADEMY [Illustration] NEW YORK ·:· CINCINNATI ·:· CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY To REV. JACOB COOPER, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D. WITH GRATEFUL AFFECTION COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY. EUTROPIUS. W. P. I PREFACE The _Breviarium_ of Eutropius has for many years been used successfully in German schools, but, though an American edition was published in the early part of this century, the author has of late years received little attention in this country. Yet in character and subject the _Breviarium_ is admirably adapted for elementary work. While the _Viri Romae_ deals only with the early history of Rome and the lives of a few great men of the republican age, the _Breviarium_ gives an outline of the history of Rome from the founding of the city to the death of the Emperor Jovian in 364 A.D., and is thus in subject closely related to the Latin course. The Latin is good, remarkably so for the time of its composition, and is not so difficult as that of Nepos or of parts of the _Viri Romae_.