History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . pire he was the fust to feel theconsequences of his own acts. . One cannot deny that there was a very just idea at the basisof this system. Despotism exaggerated in the interest of its own finances a system which offeredgreat advantages for the collection of revenues . . ; but the abuse should not prevent us fromcomprehending ami appreciating the ingenious ami just practice of previous centuries. - Keller, edit. Capmas, sect. 86. This rule had existed elsewhere at all times, even forthe Roman praetor.
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . pire he was the fust to feel theconsequences of his own acts. . One cannot deny that there was a very just idea at the basisof this system. Despotism exaggerated in the interest of its own finances a system which offeredgreat advantages for the collection of revenues . . ; but the abuse should not prevent us fromcomprehending ami appreciating the ingenious ami just practice of previous centuries. - Keller, edit. Capmas, sect. 86. This rule had existed elsewhere at all times, even forthe Roman praetor. 3 In Plinys correspondence (lib. x.) we observe in a single province and in less than two THE CITY. 73 Citizens cannot be found in our time exposing themselves tolike dangers merely for a simple civic distinction. By reducing thecommunes to infinitesimal proportions in comparison with citiescontaining the population of a kingdom, and by keeping them allunder strict state guardianship, our great modern communities havedestroyed local patriotism. In the municipium of the Flavians and. BISELLIUM IX BRONZE, FOUND IN THE THEATRE OP the Antonines it preserved all its ancient energy. Each man lovedhis city and desired it to be prosperous and beautiful, and manythought, like Caesar, that it was worth more to be first at onesown home than second elsewhere. Thus the offices which a cent-ury later will be avoided with alarm were at the period we arenow considering sought for eagerly. It is regret at leaving themwhich most afflicts the exile of whom Plutarch speaks. Alas! years the following works projected or in course of completion, — at Prusa, magnificent baths;:ii Nicomedeia, a forum and an aqueduct, for which the city had already expended 30,529,000sesterces; at Nieaea, a theatre which before completion had cost. 111,0110,0110 sesterces, and agymnasium so vast that the walls were 23 feet thick ; at Claudiopolis, baths of colossal size ; atSinope, an aqueduct over four
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