LORDS OF THE WORLD
By A. J. CHURCH.
In crown 8vo. Cloth elegant. Illustrated. 6s.
Two Thousand Years Ago
Or, The Adventures of a Roman Boy.
"Adventures well worth the telling. The book is extremely entertainingas well as useful, and there is a wonderful freshness in the Roman scenesand characters."—Times.
"Entertaining in the highest degree from beginning to end, and full ofadventure."—Spectator.
"We know of no book which will do more to make the Romans of thatday live again for the English render."—Guardian.
London: BLACKIE & SON, Limited, 50 Old Bailey, E.C.
LORDS OF THE WORLD
BLACKIE & SON, Limited, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
GLASGOW AND DUBLIN
1898
"FASTEN HIS HANDS, AND FIRMLY TOO; THAT YOUTHMIGHT GIVE US TROUBLE."
PREFACE.
The year 146 B.C. was an annus mirabilis in thedevelopment of Roman dominion. Of course it hadlong been a foregone conclusion that Carthage andCorinth must fall before her, but the actual timeof their overthrow was made all the more strikingby the fact that both cities perished in the same year,and that both were visited by the same fate. I haveattempted in this story to group some picturesqueincidents round the person of a young Greek whostruggles in vain to resist the destiny of the conqueringrace. The reader will also find somesuggestion of the thought which the Roman historianhad in his mind when he wrote: "Carthage,the rival of the Roman Empire, perished root andbranch, sea and land everywhere lay open before us,when at last Fortune began to rage against us andthrow everything into confusion". The day whenRome rid herself of her rivals seemed to some ofher more thoughtful sons to be the first of hercorruption and decline.