Tenney Frank
A History of Rome

The Author and the Book

Tenney Frank (b. near Clay Center, KS, 1876; † Oxford, England, 1939) was a classical scholar and historian who started his career in the sere reaches of grammar and prosody, eventually to find his true voice in the social and economic analysis of ancient Rome. The book transcribed here is, as he says in his Preface, geared to the general reader although with an eye firmly on college instruction.

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Technical Details

Edition Used

These webpages transcribe my copy of the first edition (1923), Henry Holt and Company, New York (hardback). The book was copyrighted in that year, and the copyright was renewed in 1951; it therefore rose into the public domain on Jan. 1, 2019.

Pagination and Local Links

For citation and indexing purposes, the pagination is shown in the right margin of the text at the page turns (like at the end of this line); p57  these are also local anchors. Sticklers for total accuracy will of course find the anchor at its exact place in the sourcecode.

In addition, I've inserted a number of other local anchors: whatever links might be required to accommodate the authors' own cross-references, as well as a few others for my own purposes. If in turn you have a website and would like to target a link to some specific passage of the text, please let me know: I'll be glad to insert a local anchor there as well.

Proofreading

As almost always, I retyped the text by hand rather than scanning it — not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise I heartily recommend: Qui scribit, bis legit. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if success­ful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

My transcription has been minutely proofread. In the table of contents below, the sections are shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree; a red background would mean that the page had not been proofread. As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme.

The running text of the printed book was well proofread, with fewer than a dozen typographical errors, all of them trivial, and therefore marked only by a dotted underscore like this: as elsewhere on my site, glide your cursor over the underscored words to read what was actually printed.

Similarly, underscored measurements provide conversions to metric, e.g., 10 miles.

A small number of odd spellings, curious turns of phrase, etc. have been marked <!‑‑ sic  in the sourcecode, just to confirm that they were checked.

Any over­looked mistakes, please drop me a line, of course: especially if you have a copy of the printed book in front of you.

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