Excerpt from Regal Rome: An Introduction to Roman History

In attempting to reconstruct the picture of most ancient Rome, much aid is gained from the singu lar adherence of the Romans to precedent and form in the development of their constitution. This often enables the modern critic to read the ancient state of things, as the print in a rock shows to a geologist the nature of the leaf which marked it.

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