Excerpt from Roman Life Under the C esars Should anyone object, however, that the chapters of this book and the facts contained in them are not closely enough linked together, I know of a noble framework in which they might be set, and which would worthily hold nearly the whole material of the present work; I would take my readers straight to that villa of Hadrian near Tibur, which fell into ruins at the close of the Empire, and has since been so pitilessly ransacked by one generation after another, that hardly the bare bones of it now te main, ' though scholars and artists of the present day are doing their best to restore it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.