Produced by Anne Soulard, Tiffany Vergon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. A HISTORY OF ROMAN LITERATURE: FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE DEATH OF MARCUS AURELIUS BY CHARLES THOMAS CRUTTWELL, M.A. TO THE VENERABLE J. A. HESSEY, D.O.L ARCHDEACON OF MIDDLESEX, THIS WORK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY HIS FORMER PUPIL, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. The