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THE EMPRESSES OF ROME


[Illustration: CRISPINA

BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM]


THE EMPRESSES OF ROME

by

JOSEPH McCABE

Author of “The Decay of the Church of Rome”

With Twenty-four Illustrations


[Illustration]






New York
Henry Holt and Company
1911




NOTE


The period embraced by this work extends to the fall of the Western
Empire, or to the middle of