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Title: A Struggle for Rome, v. 1

Author: Felix Dahn

Translator: Lily Wolffsohn

Release Date: May 6, 2010 [EBook #32271]

Language: English

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A STRUGGLE FOR ROME.

BY
FELIX DAHN.

_T R A N S L A T E D F R O M T H E G E R M A N_
BY
LILY WOLFFSOHN.

"If there be anything more powerful than Fate,
It is the courage which bears it undismayed."
GEIBEL.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON.
1878.
[_All Rights Reserved._]

PREFACE.

These pictures of the sixth century originated in my studies for the
following works:

"The Kings of the Goths," vol. ii., iii., iv. Munich and Wuerzburg,
1862-66.

"Procopius of Caesarea:" a contribution to the historiography of the
migration of nations and the decay of the Roman Empire. Berlin, 1865.

By referring to these works, the reader may distinguish the details and
changes which the romance has added to the reality.

In history the events here described filled a period of almost thirty
years' duration. From reasons easily understood, it was necessary to
shorten, or at least to disguise, this long interval.

The character of the Roman hero of the story, Cethegus Caesarius, is a
pure invention. That such a person existed is, however, known.

The work was begun at Munich in 1859, continued at Ravenna, Italy