ABSTRACT

The text which follows is Mommsen’s manuscript draft for volume IV of his History of Rome, now in the archives of the Academy of Sciences in former East Berlin (Mommsen Legacy 47/1). Words abbreviated by Mommsen have been printed in full. Asterisks ** frame Mommsen’s own marginal notes. Dots… indicate illegible or destroyed/lost words. Pointed brackets < > contain the editors’ reconstructions of words by Mommsen which are missing, generally as a result of burning. Notes and italic text in pointed brackets are the editors’. Parentheses ( ) are Mommsen’s own. Sections of text crossed out by the author have been omitted. Minor errors of syntax arising out of later insertions or erasures have been corrected. Because of the way in which the folded sheets have been opened up, the archive’s page numbering does not accord with the order in which Mommsen wrote; it is that sequence which has been reconstructed here.