Excerpt from History of the Roman Empire, From the Accession of Augustus to the End of the Empire of the West: Being a Continuation of the History of Rome The present volume is peculiarly valuable on many accounts. It embraces a period, the history of which exists in no accessible form, while its facts are Of a most interest ing and important nature, as connected with the rise, and Spread, and influence, and corruptions of the Christian church. It forms a connecting link between the times and nations properly called. Ancient, and those properly called modern, inasmuch as it displays the first inroads Of the peoples and races destined gradually to mould the latter, upon the strength, and power, and sway of the former, and their final rise upon their ruins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.