Appian: Roman History (Books 1-3.26) [3, Reprint of 1913 ed.] 0674990056, 9780674990050

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LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRAR

APPIAN'S

ROMAN

HISTORY III

Translated by

HORACE WHITE

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He saw the Jewish rebellion and later became a Roman

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rank oieques (Knight). In his older years he held a procuratorship.

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24 books oF 'Roman conquests, From the

beginning to the times of Trajan (em-

peror A.D.98-117), arranged according to races. We have Fragments of books I-V, and of VIII and IX; we have lost X and XVIIl-XXIV; books VI-VII and XI-XVII are complete, and are valuable records of military history.

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB,

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EDITED BY tT. E. PAGE,

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APPIAN'S

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m.a., f.r.hist.soc.

ROMAN HISTORY III

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APPIAN'S

ROMAN

HISTORY WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

HORACE WHITE,

M.A.,

LL.D.

IN FOUR VOLUMES

HI

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD MCMLXIV

First printed 191S Reprinted 1933, 1958, 1964

Printed in Great Britain

CONTENTS THE

BOOK

I.

BOOK

II.

BOOK lU.

CIVIL

WARS

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PAoa 1

229 517

Digitized by tine Internet Archive in

2007

with funding from

IVIicrosoft

Corporation

http://www.archive.org/details/appiansromanhist03appi

NOTE The

last

two volumes

of the present edition

have been

revised and prepared for the press by E. Iliff Robson, of Christ's College, Cambridge. The text is Viereck's recension of Mendelssohn, being the

Teubner

edition, Leipzig, 1905,

with a few unimportant changes of punctuation.

APPIAN'S

THE

ROMAN HISTORY CIVIL

WARS

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