Excerpt from A History of Roman Law: With a Commentary on the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian In the early ages of the Christian era the Roman empire embraced all the countries around the Mediterranean Sea, together with vast tracts north of the Alps, and stretching in an unbroken line eastward along the Danube to its mouth, and westward and northward to the Atlantic Ocean, St. George's Channel, the Solway Frith, and the North Sea. Or, as Gibbon has it, The empire was about two thousand miles in breadth, from the wall of ...
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Excerpt from A History of Roman Law: With a Commentary on the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian In the early ages of the Christian era the Roman empire embraced all the countries around the Mediterranean Sea, together with vast tracts north of the Alps, and stretching in an unbroken line eastward along the Danube to its mouth, and westward and northward to the Atlantic Ocean, St. George's Channel, the Solway Frith, and the North Sea. Or, as Gibbon has it, The empire was about two thousand miles in breadth, from the wall of Antoninus and the north ern limits Of Dacia to Mt. Atlas and the tropic of Cancer; it extended in length more than three thousand miles, from the western ocean to the Euphrates; it was situated in the finest part of the temperate zone, between the twenty-fourth and fifty-sixth degrees of northern latitude; it was supposed to contain about square miles, for the most part of fertile and well cultivated land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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