. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. , Engr., REIGN OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT. 4OI different sets of persons in each of the larger and smallerdivisions of the state, the one set to represent the civiland the other the military At the head of eachprefecture was placed a praetorian prefect; at the headof each diocese a vicar or vice-prefect; and at the head ofeach province a magistrate bearing usually the title ofpresident, These were civil officers, who were chargedwith the collection of the revenues and the administrationof justice
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. , Engr., REIGN OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT. 4OI different sets of persons in each of the larger and smallerdivisions of the state, the one set to represent the civiland the other the military At the head of eachprefecture was placed a praetorian prefect; at the headof each diocese a vicar or vice-prefect; and at the head ofeach province a magistrate bearing usually the title ofpresident, These were civil officers, who were chargedwith the collection of the revenues and the administrationof justice in their respective districts. Alongside these civil magistrates, and forming a similarcarefully graded hierarchy, were placed military officers,charged of course simply with the management and con-trol of military affairs. This separation of the civil and the military authoritygreatly strengthened the position of the sovereign, sincethe division of power between the two orders, and theirresulting mutual jealousies, reduced to a minimum thedanger of treachery and revolution. But this dual ad
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