Identifier: historyofromeofr42duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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every tiling else. If we allowed ours(^lves to l)e too muchswayed by this tyranny of custom, which does not permit us to been discovered at Tompeii except, in 1S75. the account Itooks of ilie banker Jucundu.-: liut abooksellerV .shop wa.s found, thouffh empty. Ilercuhineuni. on tlie contrary, has alreadyfunii.-ibed ),7)(). of which al)out ôOO liave been unrolhd and read. Infortunately tliey possesslittle interest. (They belong to the library of an Epicurean philosopher, and will certaiidygive us much important information, as they have already done, on that sy.^tem. lint who cantidl that the philosopher did not posse.<s a copy of Sappho or ^lenander among-his serious books.^Tiif unrolled portions are printed in the Volumiua Heracleensia, in course of publication formany years at Naples.—Ed.\ A\itli regard to Pompeii, see the curious volume published bythe royal government for the eighteenth centenary of tlic eruption, and l^xiissier. Promenadesarc/iPolui/i(jue.i, pp. l!cS7-37fe.
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