LIVY.

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GEORGE BAKER, A.M.

VOL. VII.

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1834.

HISTORY OF ROME.

ARGUMENTS.

BOOK XXXIX.

MARCUS MILIUS, consul, having subdued the Ligurians, makes a new road from Placentia to Ariminum, where it joins the Flaminian way-Luxury introduced by the troops who had served in Asia-All the Ligurians, on the hither side of the Apennine, completely subdued-The Bacchanalian rites, borrowed from the Greeks, and celebrated by night, cause great alarm; are investigated by the consul; suppressed, and many of those concerned in them punishedLucius Quintius Flaminius expelled the senate, by the censors, for flagitious conduct-Scipio dies at Liternum-Hannibal poisons himself, to avoid being given up to the Romans by Prusias, king of Bithynia-Philopomen, the famous Achæan general put to death by the Messenians-Successful operations against the Celtiberians-Another Macedonian war; causes and origin of it.

BOOK XL.

Violent contests between Demetrius and Perseus, the sons of Philip king of Macedonia-In consequence of the intrigues and calumnies of Perseus, and the jealousy excited by Demetrius' attachment to the Romans, the latter is put to death by poison: by which means, after the death of Philip, Perseus obtains the crown-Successes of the Romans, under different commanders, against the Ligurians; and in Spain, against the Celtiberians-The books of Numa Pompilius discovered, buried in a stone-chest, under the Janiculum; burned by the pretor, by order of the senate-Philip discovers the villanous machinations of Perseus; determines to bring him to punishment, and to settle the crown on Antigonus; dies, and is succeeded by Perseus.