History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ith a grant from the treasury. In imitation of the capital, the provincial cities expendedenormous sums for their embellishment. Whence did they derivethem? The prince had recently opened to them a new and prolific Lanciaiii, .y«//« ciftù di Porto. ^ Letronne, Imer. gr. et rom. dÈffijpte, i. 105 and 420. At Djebel-Fateereli or MonxClaudianus, in tlie Porphyritic chain, several inscriptions prove that Trajan prave a greatimpulse to the work of these quarries. (C. 1. L., vol. iii. Nos. 24, 25, and Letro
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ith a grant from the treasury. In imitation of the capital, the provincial cities expendedenormous sums for their embellishment. Whence did they derivethem? The prince had recently opened to them a new and prolific Lanciaiii, .y«//« ciftù di Porto. ^ Letronne, Imer. gr. et rom. dÈffijpte, i. 105 and 420. At Djebel-Fateereli or MonxClaudianus, in tlie Porphyritic chain, several inscriptions prove that Trajan prave a greatimpulse to the work of these quarries. (C. 1. L., vol. iii. Nos. 24, 25, and Letronne, , 39-42.) At Djebel-Fateereh, at a distance of ten leag-ues from the Red Sea, monolithsliave been found lying on the ground, whioli were oO-feet long by 26i feet in cii-cumference. ^ C. I. L., vol. ii. Nos. 751), 762. That of Chaves (.\quîe Flavife), on tlie Tamago inGalicia. still subsists also. ( C. I. L., vol. ii. No. 2,478.^ There is no bridge in England as highas that of Alcantara, and only one in Fra)ice, that of Saint Sauveur, which surpasses it by afew NERVA AXD TRAJAN, 96 TO 117 803 source of revenue. The old jurisprudence, considering the towns,like the guilds or associations, as undefined persons, did notdeem them capable of receiving a legacy,^ at least without a specialauthorization.^ Nerva recognized in them this capability, but inquite vague terms, it appears, since the prudent Pliny did not dareto use this rescript.^ The Apronian senatus-consultum, passedunder Trajan, permits cities to receive inheritances by way oftrusteeship, a last inconvenience which will disappear underHadrian.^ Then the city will become a civil person, as our Frenchcommune is, but between the two epochs a great difference patriotism was in those times active in a far differentway than now, and there were no religious congregations to attract[and secure] the liberality of the dying ; so that donations, whichhave now become authorized, beco
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