The world: historical and actual . HERE is most unmistaka-ble proof that the Romans,ike the Greeks and manyother peoples, had theirearly ballads. Every coun-trv which can boast muchcuriosity and intelligence,with little if any reading or writ-ing, has had a wealth of such crea-tions of mingled history and fancy,of fable and fact, woven into pop-ular songs. But that primitive Lat-in literature almost wholly perishedlong before the present Latin liter-ature had its birth. What is knownthe history of the kings andearly consuls of Rome is mainlyficticious. More than, three hun-dred years after the
The world: historical and actual . HERE is most unmistaka-ble proof that the Romans,ike the Greeks and manyother peoples, had theirearly ballads. Every coun-trv which can boast muchcuriosity and intelligence,with little if any reading or writ-ing, has had a wealth of such crea-tions of mingled history and fancy,of fable and fact, woven into pop-ular songs. But that primitive Lat-in literature almost wholly perishedlong before the present Latin liter-ature had its birth. What is knownthe history of the kings andearly consuls of Rome is mainlyficticious. More than, three hun-dred years after the date ordinarily assigned for thefoundation of the city, the public records were de-stroyed by the Gauls, and it was at least a centuryand a half later, before the annals of the common-wealth were compiled. Speaking on the subject in hand. Macauiay saysin one of his essays, The Latin literature whichhas come down to us is of later date than thecommencement of the second Punic war, and ((in-sists almost exclusively of words fashion
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