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Title: A Captive of the Roman Eagles

Author: Felix Dahn

Translator: Mary J. Safford

Release Date: May 2, 2010 [EBook #32220]

Language: English

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A CAPTIVE OF THE
ROMAN EAGLES

A Captive of the
Roman Eagles

_By_ FELIX DAHN

Translated from the German by
Mary J. Safford

TRANSLATOR OF
"Aspasia," "Cleopatra," etc.

Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1902

COPYRIGHT
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1902
PUBLISHED Sept. 13, 1902

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The author of the romance "A Captive of the Roman Eagles"--published in
Germany under the title of "Bissula"--is one of the most distinguished
novelists of the present day in his own country, and will doubtless be
equally appreciated by Americans.

Like Dr. Georg Ebers, he has based his historical novels upon the solid
foundation of earnest study. The field he has chosen is principally the
period of the conflicts between Germany and Rome, and the struggles for
supremacy of the various peoples in the territory now occupied by
Germany, Switzerland, and France, and he describes with vivid colors
and dramatic power the life of those far-off days.

Professor Dahn is a native of Hamburg, but spent his childhood in
Munich, always a centre of intellectual life,