Part II has Roman history as its subject. It opens with a description of
the topography of Rome on a historical background. This is followed by a
prose version of Vergil's Aeneid with the important passages in the
original, and Livy's Book I dealing with the seven kings of Rome,
supplemented with extracts from Ovid (on Romulus and Remus, the Sabine
Women, Lucretia etc.). Livy's prose has been suitably adapted, but less and
less as it progresses, thus preparing the student for the reading of
original texts by Livy, Aulus Gellius, Cornelius Nepos, Sallust, Cicero and
Horace in the remaning chapters. The sections have been arranged to cover
the history of Rome until the end of the republic. For periods not treated
by these writers, the compendium of Roman history by Eutropius and the
epitome of the lost books by Livy have been used. As in Part I each chapter
is followed by three pensa and a list of new words.
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