first rudiments of a civilized life. The Tiber rolled at the foot of the
seven hills of Rome, and the country of the Sabines, the Latins, and the
Volsci, from that river to the frontiers of Naples, was the theatre
of her infant victories. On that celebrated ground the first consuls
deserved triumphs, their successors adorned villas, and their posterity
have erected convents. Capua and Campania possessed the immediate
territory of Naples; the rest of the kingdom was inhabited by many
warlike nations, the Marsi, the Samnites, the Apulians, and the
Lucanians; and the sea-coasts had been covered by the flourishing
colonies of the Greeks. We may remark, that when Augustus divided Italy
into eleven regions, the little province of Istria was annexed to that
seat of Roman sovereignty."

As we see by this topical extract, Gibbon's practice in the use of Latin
place-names is very much freer than Grote's in the use of the Greek. A
few comparative instances from the Atlas will suffice:


Gibbon's spelling Classical Atlas Gibbon's spelling Classical Atlas

Antioch Antiochia Naples Neapolis prius
Apennines Apenninus Parthenope
Dardenellcs Hellespontus Osrhoene Osroene
Ctesiphon Ctesipon Thrace Thracia
Egypt Ægyptus Ostia Ostia
Gau1 Gaula Cordova Corduba
Genoa Genua


Among other works which the present Atlas will help to illustrate,