The History of Rome, vol 3

The History of Rome, vol 3

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Title: The History Of Rome, Book III
Author: Theodor Mommsen
Release Date: May 4, 2004 [eBook #10703]
Language: English
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The History Of Rome, Book III
By Theodor Mommsen
Translated by William Purdie Dickson

Preparer's Note
This work contains many literal citations of and references to foreign words, sounds, and alphabetic symbols drawn from many languages, including Gothic and Phoenician, but chiefly Latin and Greek. This English Gutenberg edition, constrained to the characters of 7-bit ASCII code, adopts the following orthographic conventions:
1) Except for Greek, all literally cited non-English words that do not refer to texts cited as academic references, words that in the source manuscript appear italicized, are rendered with a single preceding, and a single following dash; thus, -xxxx-.
2) Greek words, first transliterated into Roman alphabetic equivalents, are rendered with a preceding and a following double- dash; thus, --xxxx--. Note that in some cases the root word itself is a compound form such as xxx-xxxx, and is rendered as --xxx-xxx--
3) Simple unideographic references to vocalic sounds, single letters, or alphabeic dipthongs; and prefixes, suffixes, and syllabic references are represented by a single preceding dash; thus, -x, or -xxx.
4) Ideographic references, referring to signs of representation rather than to content, are represented as -"id:xxxx"-. "id:" stands for "ideograph", and indicates that the reader should form a picture based on the following "xxxx"; which may be a single symbol, a word, or an attempt at a picture composed of ASCII characters. For example, --"id:GAMMA gamma"-- indicates an uppercase Greek gamma-form followed by the form in lowercase. Some such exotic parsing as this is necessary to explain alphabetic development because a single symbol may have been used for a number of sounds in a number of languages, or even for a number of sounds in the same language at different times. Thus, "-id:GAMMA gamma" might very well refer to a Phoenician construct that in appearance resembles the form that eventually stabilized as an uppercase Greek "gamma" juxtaposed to one of lowercase. Also, a construct such as --"id:E" indicates a symbol that with ASCII resembles most closely a Roman uppercase "E", but, in fact, is actually drawn more crudely.
5) Dr. Mommsen has given his dates in terms of Roman usage, A.U.C.; that is, from the founding of Rome, conventionally taken to be 753 B. C. The preparer of this document, has appended to the end of each volume a table of conversion between the two systems.

The History Of Rome
By
Theodor Mommsen
Translated With The Sanction Of The Author
By
William Purdie Dickson, D.D., LL.D. Professor Of Divinity In The University Of Glasgow
A New Edition Revised Throughout And Embodying Recent Additions

CONTENTS
BOOK THIRD From The Union Of Italy To The Subjugation Of Carthage And The Greek States


CHAPTER I
Carthage


CHAPTER II
The War Between Rome And Carthage Concerning Sicily


CHAPTER III
The Extension Of Italy To Its Natural Boundaries


CHAPTER IV
Hamilcar And Hannibal


CHAPTER V
The War Under Hannibal To The Battle Of Cannae


CHAPTER VI
The War Under Hannibal From Cannae To Zama


CHAPTER VII
The West From The Peace Of Hannibal To The Close Of The Third Period


CHAPTER VIII
The Eastern States And The Second Macedonian War


CHAPTER IX
The War With Antiochus Of Asia


CHAPTER X
The Third Macedonian War


CHAPTER XI
The Government And The Governed


CHAPTER XII
The Management Of Land And Of Capital


CHAPTER XIII
Faith And Manners


CHAPTER XIV
Literature And Art

BOOK THIRD
From The Union Of Italy To The Subjugation Of Carthage And The Greek States
Arduum res gestas scribere.
--Sallust.


Chapter I
Carthage
The Phoenicians
The Semitic stock occupied a place amidst, and yet aloof from, the nations of the ancient classical world. The true centre of the former lay in the east, that of the latter in the region of the Mediterranean; and, however wars and migrations may have altered the line of demarcation and thrown the races across each other, a deep sense of diversity has always severed, and still severs, the Indo- Germanic peoples from the Syrian, Israelite, and Arabic nations. This diversity was no less marked in the case of that Semitic people which spread more than any other in the direction of the west--the Phoenicians. Their native seat was the narrow border of coast bounded by Asia Minor, the highlands of Syria, and Egypt, and called Canaan, that is, the "plain." This was the only name which