Primus continet res gestas regum populi Romani, secundus et tertius unde quaeque civitas orta sit Italica; ob quam rem omnes Origines videtur appellasse. In quarto autem bellum Poenicum est primum, in quinto secundum.
The first contains an account of the kings of the Roman people; the second and third, the origin of all the states of Italy'and it seems to be for that reason that he called the entire work The Origins. Then in the fourth book we have the first Punic war, and in the fifth, the second.
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