The development of the Roman constitution / by Ambrose Tighe.

  • Tighe, Ambrose, 1859-1928.
Date:
1887
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Credit: The development of the Roman constitution / by Ambrose Tighe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMAN CONSTITUTION, CHAPTER I. THE SOURCES OF EARLY ROMAN HISTORY. i. The Credibility of Early Roman His- tory.—No one in these days, who has studied the subject with any care, believes that the stories about the kings and early heroes of Rome are quite true in the form in which we have received them from the Greek and Latin writers. Some scholars dis- pose of them curtly as a mass of fables, unworthy of serious study. Others think that, if they be analyzed and sifted, some truth can be found in them amid much which is false. A few divide them into two parts—the larger one made up of facts and the smaller of fictions. But no one, as we have said, accepts them as a whole without question. This general skepticism, however, dates no further back than the early part of the present century. Then, under the influence of a German scholar, Niebuhr by name, the scientific criticism of Roman history first began. Before this time Romulus and his six successors on the Roman throne were no more 2