Название: History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2
Автор: Napoleon III
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
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It results from the testimony of Polybius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Livy, Florus, and Eutropius, that at the moment of the fall of Tarquinius Superbus, the domination of Rome extended over all Latium, over the greater part of the country of the Sabines, and even as far as Ocriculum (
The establishment of the consular government was, for the peoples subject to Rome, the signal of revolt. In 253, all the peoples of Latium were leagued against Rome; with the victory of Lake Regillus, in 258, that is, fourteen years after the overthrow of the Tarquins, the submission of Latium began, and it was finished by the treaty concluded by Spurius Cassius with the Latins in the year of Rome 268. The Sabines were only finally reduced by the consul Horatius in 305. Fidenæ, which had acknowledged the supremacy of Tarquin, was taken in the year 319, then taken again, after an insurrection, in 328. Anxur (
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Mommsen,
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In fourteen years, from 399 to 412, the patricians allowed only six plebeians to arrive at the consulship.
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Titus Livius, X. 23.
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Titus Livius, X. 9.
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“Who does not see clearly that the vice of the dictator (Marcellus) in the eyes of the augurs was that he was a plebeian?” (Titus Livius, VIII. 23. – Cicero,
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The consuls and prætors could only assemble the comitia, command the armies, or give final judgment in civil affairs, after having been invested with the
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Titus Livius, IV. 3.
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If a citizen refused to give his name for the recruitment, his goods were confiscated; if he did not pay his creditors, he was sold for a slave. Women were forbidden the use of wine. (Polybius, VI. 2.) – The number of guests who could be admitted to feasts was limited. (Athenæus, VI. p. 274.) – The magistrates also, on entering on office, could not accept invitations to dinner, except from certain persons who were named. (Aulus Gellius, II. 24. – Macrobius, II. 13.) – “Marriage with a plebeian or a stranger was surrounded with restrictive measures; it was forbidden with a slave or with a freedman. Celibacy, at a certain age, was punished with a fine.” (Valerius Maximus, II. ix. 1.) – There were regulations also for mourning and funerals. (Cicero,
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Aulus Gellius, IV. 12.
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Plutarch,
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Historians have always assigned as the northern frontier of Italy, under the Republic, the River Macra, in Etruria; but that the limit was farther south is proved by the fact that Cæsar went to Lucca to take his winter quarters; this town, therefore, must have been in his command and made part of Cisalpine Gaul. Under Augustus, the northern frontier of Italy extended to the Macra.
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Speech of Cæsar to the Senate, reported by Sallust. (
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This paragraph, expressing with great clearness the policy of the Roman Senate, is extracted from the excellent
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As, for example, to put the wife in complete obedience to her husband; to give the father absolute authority over his children, etc.
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In the origin, the municipia were the allied towns preserving their autonomy, but engaging to render to Rome certain services (
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To be able to enjoy the right of city, it was necessary to be domiciliated at Rome, to have left a son in his majority in the municipium, or to have exercised there a magistracy.
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Aul. Gellius, XVI. xiii. – Paulus Diaconus, on the word
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In this category were sometimes found municipia of the third degree, such as Cære. (See Festus, under the word
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With Carthage, for example. (Polybius, III. 22. – Titus Livius, VII. 27; IX. 19, 43.)
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Thus with the Latins. “Ut eosdem quos populus Romanus amicos atque hostes habeant.” (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 8.)
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Cicero,
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The freedmen were, in fact, either Roman citizens, or Latins, or ranged in the number of the
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“Valerius sent upon the lands conquered from the Volsci a colony of a certain number of citizens chosen from among the poor, both to serve as a garrison against the enemies, and to diminish at Rome the party of the seditious.” (Year of Rome 260.) (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, VI. 43.) – This great number of colonies, by clearing the population of Rome of a multitude of indigent citizens, had maintained tranquillity (452). (Titus Livius, X. 6.)
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Modern authors are not agreed on this point, which would require a long discussion; but we may consider the question as solved in the sense of our text by Madvig,
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“There the people (