Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome

Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome comes with an introduction to the study of Roman history, and questions for examination at the end of each section. The text says it seems probable that several villages might have been formed at an early age on the different hills, and that the first of them which obtained a decided superiority, the village on the Palatine hill, finally absorbed the rest. The text says Rome, according to Varro, was founded in the fourth year of the sixth Olympiad, B.C. 753, while Cato, the censor, places the event four years later.

The text says that Cæsar left a town to be plundered and, without delaying his march, went forward to Metrop'olis, another town of the same province, which yielded at his approach. The text says that Pompey's officers continually solicited their commander to come to a battle, and that he at length resolved to renounce his own judgment in compliance with those about him.