Copy 1, Volume 1

History of Rome / [Thomas Arnold].

  • Thomas Arnold
Date:
1840-1848
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Credit: History of Rome / [Thomas Arnold]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES. The preceding tables exhibit a view of the lists of consuls and military tribunes from the beginning of the Common- wealth to the Gaulish invasion, according to four distinct authorities ; the remains of the Fasti Oapitolini, Livy, Dio- dorus Siculus, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. And I have endeavoured to arrange each list according to the chronology adopted by its own particular author ; so that as this chro- nology varies, the same year will be found mai'ked by the names of different sets of consuls, according as w’e prefer one of these four authorities to the other. I. The principal fragments of the Fasti Capitolini were discovered in the year 154-6, in the course of some exca- vations which were then being made on the ground of the ancient Forum. They have been preserved in the museum of the Capitol, and their contents have been long know’n to the w'orld, as they have been often published. My extracts have been taken from the edition of Sigonius; and I have been careful to give them in their genuine state, without noticing the additions by w'hich Sigonius attempted to supply from conjecture the lost or effaced words of the original marble. It happened, however, that about tw'o hundred and seventy years after the discovery of these fragments, two other fragments of the same marble w'ere brought to light in the course of a new excavation in the Forum, on the very spot where the former remains had been found. This was in the years 1817 and 1818; and Signor Borghesi, an