'Ad illa mihi pro se quisque acriter intendat animum, quae vita, quae mores fuerint.'--LIVY, _Praefatio_. This book was originally intended to be a companion to Professor Tucker's _Life in Ancient Athens_, published in Messrs. Macmillan's series of Handbooks of Archaeology and Art; but the plan was abandoned for reasons on which I need not dwell, and before the book was quite finished I was called to other and more specialised work. As it stands, it is merely an attempt to supply an educational want. At our schools and universities we read the great writers of the last age of the Republic, and learn something of its political and constitutional history; but there is no book in our languag…
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