Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Beginnings of Rome; its Wars -- II. The Art of War Among the Romans -- III. How the Romans were Able to Expand -- IV. The Gauls; Pyrrhus; Comparison of Carthage and Rome; Hannibal's War -- V. The Condition of Greece, Macedonia, Syria, and Egypt After the Reduction of the Carthaginians -- VI. The Conduct the Romans Pursued to Subjugate all Peoples -- VII. How Mithridates was Able to Resist them -- VIII. The Dissensions that Always Existed in the City -- IX. Two Causes of Rome's Ruin -- X. The Corruption of the Romans -- XI. Sulla; Pompey and Caesar -- XII. The Condition of Rome After Caesar's Death -- XIII. Augustus -- XIV. Tiberius -- XV. The Emperors from Caius Caligula to Antoninus -- XVI. The Condition of the Empire, from Antoninus to Probus -- XVII. Change in the State -- XVIII. New Maxims Adopted by the Romans -- XIX. Attila's Greatness; Cause of the Settlement of the Barbarians; Reasons why the Western Empire was the First to Fall -- XX. Justinian's Conquest; his Government -- XXI. Disorders of the Eastern Empire -- XXII. Weakness of the Eastern Empire -- XXIII. Reason for the Duration of the Eastern Empire; its Destruction.