History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . elli, No. ). The centurion Cornelius, inthe Acts of the Apostles, was praised, before his conversion, for his alms to the poor. ^ Another measure favourable to property in Italy, without always being so to its agricul-ture, was the edict which obliged the provincials who were candidates for the ofRome to have a third of their in Italy. (Pliny, vi. 19.) This was in the spiritof a law of Civsar and of another of Tiberius. Cf. vol. iii. p. 361». This edict was renewed b
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . elli, No. ). The centurion Cornelius, inthe Acts of the Apostles, was praised, before his conversion, for his alms to the poor. ^ Another measure favourable to property in Italy, without always being so to its agricul-ture, was the edict which obliged the provincials who were candidates for the ofRome to have a third of their in Italy. (Pliny, vi. 19.) This was in the spiritof a law of Civsar and of another of Tiberius. Cf. vol. iii. p. 361». This edict was renewed byMarcus Aurelius, who only required a quarter. (Capitolin., M. Anton., 11.) Ixviii. 5. Cf. Rossini, (/li Archi trionfali, tav. 38-43, and tlie coin last given (Cohen,ii., Trajan, No. 373), which represents Trajan standitig, holding a sceptre surmounted by an NERVA AND TRAJAN, 96 TO 117 , 793 Provincial cities and wealthy individuals followed the examplegiven by tlie emperors ; ^ this pagan society, which ameliorated thelot of the slave, which was mindful of the misery of its poor, and. Arch of Trajau, built in 114 by Apollodorus, at Beueventum. taught with Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius the finest precepts ofmorality, thus showed before its downfall that it possessed within eagle, and raising up Italy, who is kneeling; between them two children exteuduig theirhands, and for legend : REST. Cf. Id., Nos. 13, 14, 299-304. The successors of Trajan preserved and developed this institution. Hadrian, saysSpartianus, 7, jOMem ac jL>Me//w . . incrementum liberalitatis adjecit ; and he decided that thealimentary pension should be continued to the boys until eighteen, to the girls until fourteen{Digest, xxxiv. 1,14). Antoninus, in honour of his wife, increased the number of the young girlsassisted, Faustiniance (Capit., 8). We possess inscriptions in the name of the pueri et puellœalimentarii of Cupra Montana, in honour of Antoninus and Urbinus, and of Ficulnea in honourof
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