In the spring of 1906, the Collège de France invited me to deliver, during November of that year, a course of lectures on Roman history. I accepted, giving a résumé, in eight lectures, of the history of the government of Augustus from the end of the civil wars to his death; that is, a résumé of the matter contained in the fourth and fifth volumes of the English edition of my work, _The Greatness and Decline of Rome_. Following these lectures came a request from M. Emilio Mitre, Editor of the chief newspaper of the Argentine Republic, the _Nacion_, and one from the _Academia Brazileira de Lettras_ of Rio de Janeiro, to deliver a course of lectures in the Argentine and Brazilian capitals. I g…
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