Original (English)

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE CONQUESTS OF THE ROMANS. Early History of Rome—Wars under the Kings—Their Results—Gradual Subjection of Italy—Great Heroes of the Republic—Their Virtues and Victories—Military Aggrandizement—The Carthaginian, Macedonian, and Asiatic Wars—Their Consequences—Civil Wars of Marius and Sulla, of Pompey and Caesar—The Conquests of the Barbarians—Extension of Roman Dominion in the East—Conquests of the Emperors—The Military Forces of the Empire—Milita