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| Title | The Fall of the Roman Republic: A Short History of the Last Century of the Commonwealth |
| Author | Charles Merivale |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 7, 2007 |
| Length | 564 pages |
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