Although only Appian's books on the  survive in their entirety, large parts of the other books, devoted to Rome's foreign wars, have also come down to us. The parts on the , the , the , and the  are very important historical sources.

Because these texts have to be reconstructed from several medieval manuscripts, not all editions of Appian's account of Rome's foreign wars are numbered in the same way. On these pages, the separate units of a book are counted strictly chronologically.