Historical Readings: adapted for Schools. Including that period of Roman history, when Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the other authors of the Augustan Age flourished, etc

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HISTORICAL READINGS: ADAPTED FOR SCHOOLS. INCLUDING THAT PERIOD OF ROMAN HISTORY, WHEN VIRGIL, HORACE, OVID, AND THE OTHER AUTHORS OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE FLOURISHED A I.S 0, THE FAMOUS SPEECH OF CICERO TO JULIUS CÆSAR. BY ROBERT JOHN M. D. THORNTON^ OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AUTHOR OF 1, A SCHOOL-VIRGIL; 2, JUVENILE BOTANY ; AND 3, CICERO DE SENECTUTE, ADAPTED FOR SCHOOLS. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY C. AND W- B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA LANE; LONG- KAN & CO., SHERWOOD & CO., AND ALL OTHER PUB- LISHERS IN PAfERNOST£R-ROW; AND SOLD BY THEM, And by all Booksellers in Town and Country. 1822. Price Five Shillings. * * A sidl Allowance to the Trade and Schoolmasters. DEDICATION TO The Rev. DOCTOR SLEATH, HIGH-MASTER OF ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL, fye. fye. fye. Dear Sir, You, having done me the high honor to patronize my School Virgil, and introduce that work, as one of the valuable Prizes awarded to the best Scholar in the First Class, at the Apposition lately held at that pubUc Foundation, emboldens me to present to your notice, Historical Readings, comprehending that portion of Roman History, when Virgil, Horace, and other classics of the Augustan Age flourished.

It has been a subject of much lamentation, that whilst youth are embued with classical erudition, English Reading, of a suitable kind, should not keep pace with the knowledge thus acquired in the dead languages ; and DEDICATION. you, Sir, have been foremost to countenance the humble endeavours of an individual, who, having himself received a public education, has felt with yourself the necessity of such a combination, in the education of young gentlemen, destined not only to the cloisters of an university, but to live in the world, in which universal knowledge is expected. That you, Sir, may long live, the illustrious example for other teachers, and diffuse the genial rays of universal science, is the sincere and ardent prayer of him, who has now the honour to sign himself. Dear Sib, With equal Respect, Esteem, and Admiration, Your truly obliged, devoted Servant, ROBERT JOHN THORNTON London, April 24, 1822.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. I Year of Rome i Before Cbriit. Pa» * Section I. — Conquests of Julius Cæsar . • Cæsar sets out for Gaul at the end of March, conquers the Helvetic, who had left their country in quest of better settlements • Defeats Anovistus, leader of the Germans, and obliges him to cross the Rhine * Cicero is recalled from banishment . * Cæsar subdues the Belgae ...... " A thanksgiving (supplicatio) was made at Rome on account of this success for 15 ditys . * Subdues the Veneti, (Venetians) • Defeats the Germans, who with an army of 430,000, invaded Gaul • Passes the Rhine, and defeats the Secambri . . • Invades Great Britain ..... * Makes a second invasion into Britain • Makes peace with Cassibelaunus . . ., * Returns back to Gaul, and relieves the camp of Quintus Cicero, brother to the great orator, which was besieged by a revolt of the Gauls . * Cæsar again passes the Rhine. * Leaves Quintus Cicero to guard the bank of the Rhine, who is attacked by the Germans, but they are driven back . * Tlie Gauls revolt, and are defeated at Alesia, (a city,) in a great battle .... • A thanksgiving decreed for 20 days by the Senate at Rome for this success .... * Crassus and his whole army are destroyed by the Parthians.