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Excerpt from The History of Rome, Vol. 1 of 6
Difiraéted with the tumult, and difguf'ted, it may he, with the intrigues and cabals of Rome, he fought retirement and tranquillity in the beautiful country, and delightful climate, of Naples. Here, enjoying uninterrupted literary cafe and quiet, he continued his labour, and finifhed his work, comprifing, in an hundred and forty-two books, the hiflory of Rome, from the foundation of that city to the death of Brufus, containing a period of feven hun dred and forty-three years, ending nine years before the birth of our Saviour. Having com plered this great work, he returned to {pend the remainder of his days in his native country, where he died, A. D. 17, at the age of feventy five years.
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