"Selections from Livy" [History of Rome], Edited with Notes and Introduction by Harry Edwin Burton, Professor of Latin in Dartmouth College, published by American Book Company, copyright 1905 and 1933, illustrated with maps.

Hard boards, embossed brown cloth, gold lettering on spine [some cloth wear and small cloth damages: see photos]; 5.1/4" x 7.1/2"; inscriptions on the front endpaper, frontispiece color double-page map of Romam Empire, 375 pages including Index + 4 color maps; c.5 pages with erasable pencil notes, very good condition.

"THE chief purpose of these selections from Livy is to give to college students a better appreciation of the genius and versatility of the historian than can be gained from the reading of a single book or of several books treating a single period. There is also a historical purpose. Chapters have been selected which treat the most important periods or events in the history of Rome which are covered by the remains of Livy's work. These have been found to be in general the most interesting as well as the most significant. It has been thought advisable to include only passages of some length, that is, of several chapters, - giving a complete account of a single period or event, and many isolated chapters of considerable interest have therefore been omitted.

The text is that of Weissenborn, revised in part by M. Mueller, with somewhat numerous changes based upon a consideration of the manuscript readings and the suggestions of recent editors and commentators. The introduction is little more than a brief statement of facts, which every student should have in mind while he is reading Livy. The notes are intended to give such assistance and information as the student will find necessary in his independent reading of the text. In the belief that long notes containing a superabundance of illustrative material are often a source of confusion, brevity has always been sought. In referring to Livy, passages included in this book have been used wherever it was possible; passages not included are given in full. With the same idea, that the college undergraduate rarely looks up a reference not contained in the book he is using,- grammatical explanations are given in the notes, reference to grammars being in general omitted. The brief bibliography at the beginning of chapters or groups of chapters is inserted for the convenience of teachers and the possible use of students… [from the Preface]

Titus Livius [64/59 BC - AD 12/17], known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, "From the Founding of the City", covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own lifetime. He was on familiar terms with members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and even in friendship with Augustus, whose young grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, he exhorted to take up the writing of history.

Livy's 'History of Rome' was in high demand from the time it was published and remained so during the early years of the empire. Pliny the Younger reported that Livy's celebrity was so widespread, a man from Cadiz travelled to Rome and back for the sole purpose of meeting him. Livy's work was a source for the later works of Aurelius Victor, Cassiodorus, Eutropius, Festus, Florus, Granius Licinianus and Orosius. Julius Obsequens used Livy, or a source with access to Livy, to compose his De Prodigiis, an account of supernatural events in Rome from the consulship of Scipio and Laelius to that of Paulus Fabius and Quintus Aelius.

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