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CHAPTER XXIV. PHILIP OF MACEDON.
CHAPTER XXV. ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
BOOK III. THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
CHAPTER XXVI. ROME IN ITS INFANCY, UNDER KINGS.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE ROMAN REPUBLIC TILL THE INVASION OF THE GAULS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CONQUEST OF ITALY.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE FIRST PUNIC WAR.
CHAPTER XXX. THE SECOND PUNIC OR HANNIBALIC WAR.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE MACEDONIAN AND ASIATIC WARS.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE THIRD PUNIC WAR.
CHAPTER XXXIII. ROMAN CONQUESTS FROM THE FALL OF CARTHAGE TO THE TIMES
OF THE GRACCHI.
CHAPTER XXXIV. ROMAN CIVILIZATION AT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRD PUNIC WAR,
AND THE FALL OF GREECE.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF THE GRACCHI.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE WARS WITH JUGURTHA AND THE CIMBRI.--MARIUS.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE REVOLT OF ITALY, AND THE SOCIAL WAR.--MARIUS AND
SULLA.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE MITHRIDATIC AND CIVIL WARS.--MARIUS AND SULLA.
CHAPTER XXXIX. ROME FROM THE DEATH OF SULLA TO THE GREAT CIVIL WARS OF
CAESAR AND POMPEY.--CICERO, POMPEY, AND CAESAR.
CHAPTER XL. THE CIVIL WARS BETWEEN CAESAR AND POMPEY.
CHAPTER XLI. THE CIVIL WARS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF
CAESAR.--ANTONIUS.--AUGUSTUS.
CHAPTER XLII. THE ROMAN EMPIRE ON THE ACCESSION OF AUGUSTUS.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE SIX CAESARS OF THE JULIAN LINE.
CHAPTER XLIV. THE CLIMAX OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
CHAPTER XLV. THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE.
CHAPTER XLVI. THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE.
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Footnotes

PREFACE.

This work is designed chiefly for educational purposes, since there is
still felt the need of some book, which, within moderate limits, shall
give a connected history of the ancient world.

The author lays no claim to original investigation in so broad a field. He
simply has aimed to present the salient points--the most important events
and characters of four thousand years, in a connected narrative, without
theories or comments, and without encumbering the book with details of
comparatively little interest. Most of the ancient histories for schools,
have omitted to notice those great movements to which the Scriptures
refer; but these are here briefly presented, since their connection with
the Oriental world is intimate and impressive, and ought not to be
omitted, even on secular grounds. What is history without a Divine
Providence?

In the preparation of this work, the author has been contented with the
last standard authorities, which he has merely simp