Volume I
Augustus Caesar. From a statue in the Vatican Museum
THE WORKS OF EDWARD GIBBON
HISTORY OF ROME
VOLUME I
NEW YORK
FRED DEFAU COMPANY PUBLISHERS
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
BY EDWARD GIBBON
EDITED BY J. B. BURY, M.A.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE RT. HON. W. E. H. LECKY
VOL. I
NEW YORK
FRED DE FAU COMPANY PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1906,
FRED DE FAU COMPANY.
Norwood Press
- INTRODUCTION 1
- PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NOTES 1
- PREFACE TO THE FOURTH VOLUME OF THE QUARTO EDITION
- INTRODUCTION
- The Extent and Military Force of the Empire in the Age of the Antonines
- Of the Union and Internal Prosperity of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines
- Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines
- The cruelty, follies, and murder of Commodus — Election of Pertinax — his attempts to reform the State — his assassination by the Prætorian Guards
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- Of the State of Persia after the Restoration of the Monarchy by Artaxerxes 1
- The State of Germany till the Invasion of the Barbarians, in the Time of the Emperor Decius
