Two hands left notes in this Folio-sized book. One hand is that of Sir Henry Savile, the tutor to Sir Henry Neville, mathematician, Essex advisor, and Tacitus translator (see indicated samples). The vast majority, however, are in the “Audley End Unknown” hand, identified in 2023 as Edward de Vere.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 BC – after 7 BC), a Greek administrator during the reign of Augustus, historian, a rhetorician, is especially known for his work Rhōmaikē Archaiologia (Roman Antiquities), a book that describes the history of Rome from its beginnings until the outbreak of the First Punic War in 264 BC. The 1546 edition, published by Robert Stephanus (“Estienne”), is the first published edition in the original Greek. An earlier edition, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 BC – after 7 BC), a Greek administrator during the reign of Augustus, historian, a rhetorician, is especially known for his work Rhōmaikē Archaiologia (Roman Antiquities), a book that describes the history of Rome from its beginnings until the outbreak of the First Punic War in 264 BC. The 1546 edition, published by Robert Stephanus (“Estienne”), is the first published edition in the original Greek. A Latin edition, edited by by Lapus Biragus in Treviso, had appeared in 1480.

These notes conduct an inventory of the key dramatic events, legal innovations, government and religious functions, and sociological categories of the Roman state as it developed during and after the two formative periods of Aeneas’ landing in Latium and the struggle for governance between the foundling brothers Romulus and Remus.