Dio's Roman history, with an English translation by Earnest Cary, PH.D., on the basis of the version of Herbert Baldwin Foster, PH.D.
Subtitle: In nine volumes, I
Contributors: Cary, Earnest, 1879-,; Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1874-1906,
Series: Loeb classical library
Publisher: W. Heinemann
Published: 1914
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; gre
Translation of: Dio's History
Number of pages: 449
Description: From the Introduction...

In describing the behaviour of Commodus toward the senate and others at the beginning of his reign, he states that his account is henceforth the result of personal observation and not hearsay. It seems a reasonable inference, therefore, that he was already a member of the senate at this time, and therefore at least twenty-five years of age. Pertinax in 193 nominated him to the praetorship for the following year; but in the meantime both Pertinax and his successor Julianus were overthrown, and Dio thus assumed the office under Septimius Severus. The mild course of the new ruler at the outset of his reign, taken in connexion with his past record, was such as to win the enthusiastic admiration of Dio and to encourage in him the hope that a new era was now dawning. 

It was at this point, apparently, that Dio's literary work began.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: vii; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK I
pagenum: 2; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK II
pagenum: 32; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK III
pagenum: 92; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK IV
pagenum: 100; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK V
pagenum: 134; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK VI
pagenum: 178; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK VII
pagenum: 206; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK VIII
pagenum: 248; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK IX
pagenum: 294; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK X
pagenum: 350; title: FRAGMENTS OF BOOK XI
pagenum: 378