. Civil war and rebellion in the Roman empire 69-70; companion to the "Histories" of Tacitus . VECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY ■MitJWOWUBlW 8gBi«iilaHB8i§WBi. MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITEDST. MARTINS STREET, LONDON 1908 Ho Cop S TO MY GREATS PUPILS AT EXETER COLLEGE AND IN PARTICULAR TO THOSE MY COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD IN ITALY PREFACE From the days of the elder Pliny to the presentthere have been many who have written concerningthe history of the Civil Wars of 69 and 70. Ofthe writers whose works are extant, Tacitus standseasily first. Without his Histori
. Civil war and rebellion in the Roman empire 69-70; companion to the "Histories" of Tacitus . VECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY ■MitJWOWUBlW 8gBi«iilaHB8i§WBi. MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITEDST. MARTINS STREET, LONDON 1908 Ho Cop S TO MY GREATS PUPILS AT EXETER COLLEGE AND IN PARTICULAR TO THOSE MY COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD IN ITALY PREFACE From the days of the elder Pliny to the presentthere have been many who have written concerningthe history of the Civil Wars of 69 and 70. Ofthe writers whose works are extant, Tacitus standseasily first. Without his Histories we shouldindeed have but an inferior story of the strugglebetween the Emperors Otho and Vitellius, and astill poorer story of that between Vitellius andVespasian. And yet always from the very firstthe strategic and military aspect of the three cam-paigns narrated by Tacitus has been write the history of those campaigns by theaid of, and as illustrative of, modern strategicalprinciples is the main purpose of this book. Two recent writers, it is true, have to someextent recognised the interest and value of such atreatment of Tacitus story. Gerstenecker in 1882contributed som
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