Ibant obscuri solâ sub nocte per umbram.
Quale per incertam lunam sub luce malignâ
Est iter in silvis; ubi cœlum condidit umbrâ
Jupiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.

ENEID, vi. 268.

ASHMOLEAN
LIBRARY
2 4 FEB 1976

OXFORD

(H)

TO THE

REV. EDWARD CRAVEN HAWTREY, D.D.,

PROVOST OF ETON COLLEGE,

THESE VOLUMES,

DEVOTED TO THE INVESTIGATION OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY,

Are Inscribed,

IN MEMORY OF THE BENEFITS DERIVED FROM

HIS INSTRUCTION,

BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND AND FORMER PUPIL,

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Introduction.

§ I Treatment of Roman history during the sixteenth, seventeenth,

and eighteenth centuries

2 First appearances of scepticism respecting the early Roman

history. First, Cluverius, Bochart, and Perizonius; after-

wards, M. de Pouilly, and Louis de Beaufort

Roman history of Niebuhr; his historical method

p. 1

4

3

4 Treatment of Roman history since Niebuhr; conflicting views

of the different writers.

12

15

5 Object of the present work, to examine the external evidences

of the early Roman history

CHAPTER II.

On the Sources of the Roman History during the last

two Centuries of the Republic.

Contemporary writers of Roman history during the last period

of the Republic-Cicero, Julius Cæsar, Sallust, Livy, and

others.

2 Contemporary historians of the times of Marius and Sylla:

Sylla, Q. Lutatius Catulus, P. Rutilius Rufus, M. Æmilius

Scaurus, L. Otacilius Pilitus, C. Licinius Macer, Q. Clau-

dius Quadrigarius, Q. Valerius Antias, Cn. Aufidius, L.

Cornelius Sisenna, L. Lucullus, L. Lucceius.

3 Contemporary historians of the age of the Gracchi: P. Sempro-

nius Asellio, Cn. Gellius, L. Cælius Antipater, C. Sempro-

nius Tuditanus, C. Fannius, L. Cassius Hemina, L. Calpur-

nius Piso

4 Contemporary Greek writers of Roman history during the later

period of the Republic: Juba, Strabo, Posidonius, Polybius,

-C. Acilius Glabrio, a Roman, wrote in Greek