Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Note

This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. A bold font is delimited with the ‘=’ character as =bold=. Text printed in mixed case with small capitals is printed in all upper case.

Errors and inconsistencies in punctuation have been attributed to printer’s errors, and corrected without further comment.

Please note the publisher’s decision, expressed in a note to the Preface in Volume I, to place footnotes at the bottom of each page, as well as the author’s note on this topic in the Preface. In keeping with his intent, notes here have been moved to the end of each chapter. Footnotes have been moved from their original positions to the end of each chapter. Several footnotes in quoted lines of poetry use asterisks and other symbols as anchors, but are also numbered in the regular sequence. There doesn't seem to be any special meaning to those symbols so the numbers are used here.

Please consult the endnotes at the bottom of this text for more details on the handling of textual issues.

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QUINTUS CLAUDIUS

A ROMANCE OF IMPERIAL ROME

BY

ERNST ECKSTEIN

FROM THE GERMAN BY CLARA BELL

IN TWO VOLUMES--VOL. II.

REVISED AND CORRECTED IN THE UNITED STATES

NEW YORK
GEO. GOTTSBERGER PECK, PUBLISHER
11 MURRAY STREET
1893.

Copyright, 1882, by WILLIAM S. GOTTSBERGER

THIS TRANSLATION WAS MADE EXPRESSLY FOR THE PUBLISHER

QUINTUS CLAUDIUS.