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A History of Rome, prepared by Moses Hadas. 305 pp. New York: Doubleday & Company. 95¢

No one man has done so much in recent years to popularize the classics as Professor Hadas, whose numerous current books include concise histories of Greek and Latin literature and a delightful Ancilla to Classical Reading. In the present book he has, with great dexterity, assembled a continuous and compendious history of Rome from its legendary origins to the last glow of world empire under Justinian by translating excerpts from the major historians, supplementing them from other ancient writers and sources, and supplying (in italics) transitional paragraphs of his own.

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A History of Rome, prepared by Moses Hadas. 305 pp. New York: Doubleday & Company. 95¢

No one man has done so much in recent years to popularize the classics as Professor Hadas, whose numerous current books include concise histories of Greek and Latin literature and a delightful Ancilla to Classical Reading. In the present book he has, with great dexterity, assembled a continuous and compendious history of Rome from its legendary origins to the last glow of world empire under Justinian by translating excerpts from the major historians, supplementing them from other ancient writers and sources, and supplying (in italics) transitional paragraphs of his own.