Excerpt from The Romanization of Roman Britain
The following pages are based on a paper which I read to the British Academy in 1905 and which, according to the custom of the Academy, was issued both in its general 'Proceedings' (ii. 185-217) and separately. In its separate form it soon ran out of print, and in 1912 the Delegates of the Clarendon Press published a new edition, revised and enlarged to about twice its original size. This second edition is now in turn exhausted; in issuing a third, I have revised and in places recast the text, and I have again increased considerably both text and illustrations. I have tried to preserve the character of the work as a treatise on a definite subject which seems to possess quite real interest and importance; I have also endeavoured so to word my matter that the text, though not the footnotes, can be read easily by any one who is interested in the subject, without special knowledge of Latin.
I have to add one regret. Last June my friend Franz Cumont told me that he was writing a volume somewhat similar to mine, which would describe the Romanization of his own country, Belgium. In the Roman age Britain and northern Gaul, which includes the area of Belgium, were so closely akin in many ways that such a volume from Cumont's pen could not fail to cast strong new light on Romano-British problems; I hoped to learn much from it for the betterment of this edition. War has come between.
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