Kiepert's map will give a clearer idea of the military consolidation of Italy than can be conveyed by any description. 1. I have deemed it, in general, sufficient to give the value of the Roman money approximately in round numbers, assuming for that purpose 100 sesterces as equivalent to 1 pound sterling.--TR. DEDICATIONS The First Volume of the original bears the inscription:-- To My Friend MORIZ HAUPT Of Berin The Second:-- To My Dear Associates FERDINAND HITZIG Of Zurich And KARL LUDWIG Of Vienna 1852, 1853, 1854 And the Third:-- Dedicated With Old And Loyal Affection To OTTO JAHN Of Bonn CONTENTS BOOK I: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy CHAPTER I. Introduction II. The Earliest Migrations into Italy III. The Settlements of the Latins IV. The Beginnings of Rome V. The Original Constitution of Rome VI. The Non-Burgesses and the Reformed Constitution VII. The Hegemony of Rome in Latium VIII. The Umbro-Sabellian Stocks--Beginnings of the Samnites IX. The Etruscans X. The Hellenes in Italy--Maritime Supremacy of the Tuscans and Carthaginians XI. Law and Justice XII. Religion XIII. Agriculture, Trade, and Commerce XIV. Measuring and Writing XV. Art BOOK FIRST The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy --Ta palaiotera saphos men eurein dia chronou pleithos adunata ein ek de tekmeirion on epi makrotaton skopounti moi pisteusai xumbainei ou megala nomizo genesthai oute kata tous polemous oute es ta alla.-- Thucydides. CHAPTER I Introduction Ancient History