Ancient legends of Roman history . archaic Latin,—a procedurewhich did not at all please the majority of his readers. From what has been said, two conclusions may be first is, that it is necessary to examine with greaterattention similar passages of Dionysius of Halicarnassus,—passages which some modern critics (such as Niese andothers) consider vain prattling of our author. I haveshown, in regard to the capture of Naples by the Romans,5that, what is to-day judged to be mere prolixity on the partof Dionysius, is a reproduction and a resume of thoseauthors who were his principal sourc
Ancient legends of Roman history . archaic Latin,—a procedurewhich did not at all please the majority of his readers. From what has been said, two conclusions may be first is, that it is necessary to examine with greaterattention similar passages of Dionysius of Halicarnassus,—passages which some modern critics (such as Niese andothers) consider vain prattling of our author. I haveshown, in regard to the capture of Naples by the Romans,5that, what is to-day judged to be mere prolixity on the partof Dionysius, is a reproduction and a resume of thoseauthors who were his principal sources. The second con-clusion is a confirmation of what has been said by othersand by myself on individual occasions,—namely, that theRoman annalists, in writing the history of the earliest times,did not purpose to be mere scholars and to describe pastevents for the use of the learned. Attending, as they did,to existing historical situations and to transactions of pub-lic and of private law, they set forth in their annals their. THE LEX iELIA-SENTIA 271 own opinions on the political conditions of their times. Thecondition of affairs is readily understood,—it is evidentfrom an infinite series of events. It is that the annalists,though describing the institutions of past centuries, did notforget those of their own age. Similarly, the Venetianannalists, in discussing the prerogatives of the ancientdoges, were wont to ascribe to them powers with whichthey were only later invested. EXCURSUS VI THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE VIA NOVA, THE VICUS ORBITSOR SCELERATUS, AND THE VICUS CYPRIUS, OR GOOD One of those problems of the earliest Roman topographywhich has received various solutions is that of the ViaNova. Although this road was called Nova, it was indeed(as Varro already observed1) old enough. I note thatthe direction of this road has not been entirely marked outby all topographers. Some mark with the name Via Novaonly that part which ran from the corner of the Palatineto the Porta Mu
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