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• The Comic History of Rome (London: Bradbury and Evans, ca. 1852), by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, illust. by John Leech
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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• Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Andrew Feldherr (HTML at UC Press)
• The New Deal in Old Rome: How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal With Modern Problems (second edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), by Henry Joseph Haskell (PDF at mises.org)
• Abridgement of Roman History, by Eutropius, ed. by Roger Pearse, trans. by J. S. Watson (HTML at tertullian.org)
• Ancient Rome, from the Earliest Times Down to 476 A. D., by Robert F. Pennell (Gutenberg text)
• Caius Velleius Paterculus Qualem Omni Parte Illustratum Publicavit David Ruhnkenius, Cui Selectas Variorum Interpretum Notas (in Latin; Paris: Colligebat N. E. Lemaire, 1822), by Velleius Paterculus, ed. by David Ruhnkenius and N. E. Lemaire, contrib. by J. C. H. Krause (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dio's Roman History, by Cassius Dio Cocceianus, trans. by Earnest Cary (HTML with commentary at Chicago)
• Dio's Rome: An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimus Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus, by Cassius Dio Cocceianus, trans. by Herbert Baldwin Foster
  • First volume: Gutenberg text
  • Second volume: Gutenberg text
  • Third volume: Gutenberg text
  • Fourth volume: Gutenberg text
  • Fifth volume: Gutenberg text
  • Sixth volume: Gutenberg text
• A General History of Rome From the Foundation of the City to the Fall of Augustulus, B.C. 753 - A. D. 476 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876), by Charles Merivale (page images at MOA)
• The History of Rome (3 volumes in 1; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1861), by Thomas Arnold
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The History of Rome (3 volumes in 1; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1868), by Thomas Arnold
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The History of Rome (6 volumes; Everyman's Library edition, 1912), by Livy, trans. by William Masfen Roberts
  • volume 1: illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • volume 3: illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • volume 4: illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • volume 5: illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • volume 6: illustrated HTML at Virginia
• The History of Rome (five-book edition), by Theodor Mommsen, trans. by William P. Dickson (Gutenberg texts)
• A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate: Volume I: From the Tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus to the Second Consulship of Marius, B.C. 133-104 (only volume published; 1904), by A. H. J. Greenidge (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Rome, From the First Punic War to the Death of Constantine (2 volumes; London: Printed by S. Bentley and Co. for Taylor and Walton, 1844), by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, ed. by Leonhard Schmitz
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Pictures from Roman Life and Story (third edition), by Alfred John Church (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome (Philadelphia: THomas, Cowperthwait and Co., 1851), by Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by William Pinnock and W. C. Taylor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Translated into Englisdh, With Notes and Dissertations (4 volumes (including a fragment from Polybius); London: Printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1758), by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ed. by Edward Spelman, contrib. by Polybius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman History (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898), by Livy, ed. by Duffield Osborne, trans. by John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Romane Historie Written by T. Livius of Padua; Also, The Breviaries of L. Florus; With a Chronology to the Whole Historie; and the Topography of Rome In Old Time (with additional material; London: Printed by W. Hunt for G. Sawbridge, 1659), by Livy, trans. by Philemon Holland, contrib. by Lucius Annaeus Florus, Johann Freinsheim, and Bartolomeo Marliani
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Story of the Romans (New York: American Book Company, 1896), by H. A. Guerber (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Politick Discourses: Written in Italian by Paolo Paruta, A Noble Venetian, Cavalier and Procurator of St. Mark; Whereunto is added, A Short Soliloquy, in Which the Author Briefly Examines the Whole Course of His Life (London: Printed for H. Moseley, 1657), by Paolo Paruta, trans. by Henry Carey Monmouth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Readings from Macaulay. Italy. With an introduction by Donald G. Mitchell. [Ik Marvel.] (Boston, Chautauqua Press, 1885), by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Macaulay's Lays of ancient Rome. With Ivry, and the Armada. (New York, Cassell & company, limited, [1887]), by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The illustrated history of Rome and the Roman empire, (New York, The World publishing house, 1877), by Thomas Keightley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cooper's histories of Greece and Rome, (Plymouth, Mass., J. Avery, 1818), by Rev. Mr Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient history for colleges and high schools. (Boston, Ginn & company, 1890), by P. V. N. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histories of Greece and Rome, of South and North America. (Plymouth, Mass., J. Avery; Belcher and Armstrong, printers, 1808), by Rev. Mr Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorsi politici di Paolo Paruta : nei quali si considerano diversi fatti illustri e memorabili di principi e di republiche antiche e moderne : aggiontovi nel fine un suo soliloquio nelquale l'auttore fa un breve essame di tutto il corso della sua vita. (In Venetia : Appresso Domenico Nicolini, 1599), by Paolo Paruta (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city of the seven hills; a book of stories from the history of ancient Rome, by Caroline H. Harding, A.B. and Samuel B. Harding, PH.D. (Chicago, Scott, Foresman and company, 1898), by Caroline Hirst Harding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The city of the seven hills; a book of stories from the history of ancient Rome, (Chicago, Scott, Foresman and company, 1902), by Caroline Hirst Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• [History of Rome, (Philadelphia, J. Grigg, 1826]), by Oliver Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of Greece and Rome / retold from St. Nicholas. (New York : The Century co., [c1909]), by St. Nicholas (periodical) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eutropi Breviarm ab urbe condita / Guilelmus Hartel recognovit. (Berolini [Berlin] : Apud Weidmannos, 1872), by active 4th century Eutropius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman imperialism, by Tenney Frank. (New York, The Macmillancompany, 1914), by Tenney Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erzählungen aus der Römischen Geschichte in biographischer Form (in German), by L. Stacke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Roma nella memoria e nelle immaginazioni del Medio Evo vol. II (in Italian), by Arturo Graf (Gutenberg ebook)
• Roma nella memoria e nelle immaginazioni del Medio Evo vol. I (in Italian), by Arturo Graf (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Grandeur That Was Rome: a survey of Roman culture and civilisation, by J. C. Stobart (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rome, by W. Warde Fowler (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eutropius, by active 4th century Eutropius, ed. by J. C. Hazzard (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End: with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books, by Livy, trans. by W. A. McDevitte (Gutenberg ebook)
• A History of Rome to 565 A. D., by Arthur E. R. Boak (Gutenberg ebook)
• Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 11 (of 15), Roman, by Charles Morris (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Smaller History of Rome: from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire, by Eugene Lawrence and William Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• Breviarium ab urbe condita. English (London : Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh ..., 1684), by 4th cent Eutropius and Lewis Maidwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Méthode pour apprendre facilement l'histoire romaine. English (London : Printed for R. Baldwin ..., and W. Lindsey ..., 1695), by Abbé de Fourcroy and Thomas Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Greek and Roman history illustrated by coins & medals representing their religions, rites, manners, customs, games, feasts, arts and sciences : together with a succint account of their emperors, consuls, cities, colonies and families, in two parts, necessary for the introduction of youth into all the useful knowledge of antiquity / by O.W. (London : Printed by G. Croom, for William Miller ... and Christopher Wilkinson ..., 1692), by Obadiah Walker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Historia Romana. English. 1578 (Jmprinted at London : By Henrie Bynniman, Anno. 1578), by Appianus of Alexandria (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Historia Romana. English (London : Printed for John Amery ..., 1679), by Appianus of Alexandria, John Davies, and John Dryden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Discorsi politici. English (London : Printed for H. Moseley ..., 1657), by Paolo Paruta and Henry Carey Monmouth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Secret history. English (London : Printed for John Barkesdale ..., 1674), by Procopius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Roman history written in Latine by Titus Livius. With the supplements of John Freinshemius and John Dujatius from the foundation of Rome to the middle of the reign of Augustus. (London : Printed for Awnsham Churchill, 1686), by Livy, John Dujatius, and Johann Freinsheim (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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