THE

SEVEN KINGS OF ROME.

THE

SEVEN KINGS OF ROME:

A STORY

ABRIDGED FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF

LIVY,

WITH GRAMMATICAL NOTES AND VOCABULARIES,
FOR THE USE OF BEGINNERS.

BY

J. WRIGHT, M. A.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

LATE HEAD MASTER OF SUTTON COLDFIELD SCHOOL.

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,

BREAD STREET HILL, E.C.

PREFACE.

My aim in the following pages has been to supply the beginner of Latin with an easy Construing-book, which may at the same time be made a vehicle for instructing him in the rules of grammar and principles of composition. For this purpose I have selected the First Book of Livy, because I did not know where else to find such simplicity and elegance of style united to so interesting a narrative. Livy's History is rarely set before beginners, both on account of its great bulk, and of the various difficulties which it contains. The first of these objections I have obviated by publishing separately a small portion only: the latter, by excluding from this portion most of the difficult passages. I trust that by so doing I have not exposed it on the other hand to the objection which is usually brought against