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Stories From Livy, by Alfred Church
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Title: Stories From Livy
Author: Alfred Church
Illustrator: Pinelli
Release Date: December 25, 2007 [EBook #24030]
Language: English
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STORIES FROM LIVY
By The Rev. Alfred Church, M.A.
Professor of Latin in University College, London
With Illustrations From Designs By Pinelli.
Scribner And Welford
MDCCCLXXXIII.
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TO
HENRY FRANCIS CHURCH
BEST OF BROTHERS
PREFACE.
I had wished to say a few words as to the great difficulty of transforming Livy's ornate diction into the simple style I have hitherto adopted; but a stroke of illness has prevented my being able even to correct the proofs--a work which has been carried out for me by my kind friend, C. Simmons, Esq., of Balliol College, Oxford.
Pymlico, Hadley,
October 2, 1882.
CHAPTER I.
~~ THE STORY OF ROMULUS AND OF NUMA.
Æneas of Troy, coming to the land of Italy, took to wife Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus, and built him a