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 | PREFACE
For Master Valens Gothicus Maximus Perpetuus Augustus
In accordance with the wish of your
Clemency, I have compiled, in a short narrative and in chronological
order, those events in Roman history which are conspicuous in war and
peace, from the founding of the city until our own time, and have
briefly added those occurrences which stand out as extraordinary in the
lives of the leading men, in order that the divine mind of your
Serenity may rejoice that it has followed the actions of illustrious
men in managing the empire, before it learned of them from reading.
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