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Excerpt from The Roman Empire of the West: Four Lectures, Delivered at the Philosophical Institute, Edinburgh, February, 1855 I Have to treat of the History of Rome from the settlement of its monarchy under Augustus to the extinction of the Empire of the West under Augustulus - a period of 507 years; from the battle of Actium, thirty-one years before the Christian era, down to the year 476 of that era. But in dealing with this period, there are two great subjects excluded: the one is the literature of Rome, the second is the history of Christianity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.