. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . Plate LVIII. Tomb of Caecilia Metella 504. Plate LIX. Posidonius 505 LAST ERA OF THE REPUBLIC Events in Rome The close of Caesars Gallic campaigns and his return to thecapital brings us to the eve of that tremendous convulsionwhich shook three continents, and still sends its echoes to ourears, after the lapse of twenty centuries. But before we enteron the narrative of the civil war it is necessary to sketchbriefly the course of events in Rome from the time when Cicerowent into exile (58
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . Plate LVIII. Tomb of Caecilia Metella 504. Plate LIX. Posidonius 505 LAST ERA OF THE REPUBLIC Events in Rome The close of Caesars Gallic campaigns and his return to thecapital brings us to the eve of that tremendous convulsionwhich shook three continents, and still sends its echoes to ourears, after the lapse of twenty centuries. But before we enteron the narrative of the civil war it is necessary to sketchbriefly the course of events in Rome from the time when Cicerowent into exile (58 ). The absence of Caesar left Clodius for a time virtuallymaster of Rome. The whole rabble of the capital obeyed hisnod, and scenes of riot and violence were of daily lord of misrule affected to play the part of a secondGracchus, and passed laws which were designed to break downthe last remnant of aristocratic privilege. The Senate waspowerless ; the great Pompeius himself was openly insulted,and at last shut himself up in his house, declaring that his lifewas in danger. Amid this anarchy the thoughts of all sobercitizens tu
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