. European history : an outline of its development. present name of Roumania preserves the memory of theRoman occupation, and the colonies settled there by TrajanRomanized the language so thoroughly that the modernspeech of the country is as truly a descendant of the Latin , His-tory, Bk. IV. Tacitus,Agricola,translation ofChurch andBrodribb. Romaniza-tion of ,Chap. ;Fisher, Be-gitiniiigs ofChristianity,47-73. SeeClaudiusspeech inTacitus,Annals, XL,24-25. The fivegood , TheAge of theAntonines(Epochs) ;Gibbon, Nerva and Trajan, 96-
. European history : an outline of its development. present name of Roumania preserves the memory of theRoman occupation, and the colonies settled there by TrajanRomanized the language so thoroughly that the modernspeech of the country is as truly a descendant of the Latin , His-tory, Bk. IV. Tacitus,Agricola,translation ofChurch andBrodribb. Romaniza-tion of ,Chap. ;Fisher, Be-gitiniiigs ofChristianity,47-73. SeeClaudiusspeech inTacitus,Annals, XL,24-25. The fivegood , TheAge of theAntonines(Epochs) ;Gibbon, Nerva and Trajan, 96-117. The origin , Anto-7iines, 36-38;Merivale,Romans,VII. 189-197. 114 The Empire and its Decline [§ 105 as Italian. Hadrian and Antoninus Pius spent laboriouslives in the faithful service of the state, and the Stoic phi-losopher Marcus Aurelius, even more famous for his littlebook entitled Thoughts — thoughts on living, on con-duct and character—than as an emperor, spent an evenharder life in desperate warfare on the UL_-^i- Marcus Aurelius Roman lawgiven scien-tific fromJustiniansInstitutes,Fling, Stu-dies, No. 10;the Institutes,translated byMovie(Clarendon). 105. The Roman Law. —The two processes which hadcharacterized the first century went on steadily through thesecond, the Romanization of the Empire and the gradualtransformation of the constitution into an undisguisedmonarchy. This age, however, saw a new process begin-ning which was of the utmost importance for the futurehistory of the world. It was the reduction of the Romanlaw to definite and scientific form. We shall see later thedeep and permanent influence which the Roman law has §io5] The Romajt Law 5 exercised on all the civilized nations of later times. It wasin the second century that it began to be put into the shapethat enabled it to exert this influence. In its growth the Roman law was in many ways like ourown Anglo-Saxon law. It had two chief sources, the writte
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