H. Grave lot inv. Seul· The PASSAGE of HANNIBAL overýALPS · Publish'd Dec. 23° 1740. by J. P. Knapton THE ROMAN HISTORY FROM THE FOUNDATION of ROME ΤΟ ΤΗΕ BATTLE of ACTIUM: THAT IS, To the End of the COMMONWEALTH. By Mr. ROLLIN, late Principal of the University of Tranflated from the FRENCH. VOL. IV. LONDON: Printed for JOHN and PAUL KNAPTON, at the ADVERTISEMENT то тнЕ READE R. I N the part of history at the end of the preceding volume and the beginning of this I had not Livy for my guide: this, I have reafon to fear, is but too evident. We have loft the fecond decade of that historian, which contained the war with the Tarentines and Pyrrhus, the end of that with the Samnites, the first Punic war, and the events which happened in the interval between That and the fecond. We have indeed the Supplement of Freinshemius, who has collected, with infinite pains and wonderful difcernment, a vaft variety of paffages dispersed here and there in authors, to fill up the chafms of Livy, and make his remains a continued history. So ufeful, or rather neceffary a work, compofed with fo much accuracy, and even elegance, cannot be too much efteemed: but it is not Livy. Nothing is above that illuftrious hiftorian's merit. The beauty and elevation of his ftile is equal to the greatness and glory of the People whofe hiftory he writes. He is every where luminous, intelligible, agreeable but, when he enters into important things, he rifes in fome measure above himself, to treat them with peculiar attention and a kind. of felf-delight and complacency. He renders the action he describes prefent; he fets it before A 2 the |