INTRODUCTION, 1 SOURCES OF ROMAN HISTORY, 2 Its authenticity, 2 The use of letters of great antiquity among the Romans, 4 _Annales maximi, Annales pontificum_, 5 _Fasti_, 9 _Commentarii pontificum_, 10 _Libri pontificum, augurales_, 10 _Laudationes funebres_, 11 Poetical traditions, 12 Family chronicles, 15 Cn. Nævius, 16 Q. Fabius Pictor, 18 Numerius Fabius Pictor, 21 Other historians, bearing the name of Fabius, or Pictor, 21 L. Cincius Alimentus, 22 C. Acilius, A. Postumius Albinus, Cn. Aufidius, 23 Q. Ennius, 23 M. Porcius Cato, 26 L. Cassius Hemina, 26 Servius Fabius Pictor, 27 Cn. Gellius. Vennonius, 28 L. Calpurnius Piso, 29 Q. Claudius Quadrigarius, 30 Q. Valerius Antias, 32 C. Licinius Macer, 33 Junius Gracchanus. Fenestella, 34 Forged historians, 34 Q. Ælius Tubero. T. Pomponius Atticus, 35 Cicero, 35 C. Sallustius Crispus, 36 L. Cornelius Sisenna, 37 Diodorus Siculus, 37 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 38 T. Livius, 45 Velleius Paterculus, 57 Fabius Rusticus, 58 Epitome of Livy. L. Annæus Florus. Eutropius, 58 Orosius. Plutarch, 59 Appian, 60 Dio Cassius Cocceianus, 61