. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. TpaUov . . TrfvrfjKovTa . . oIkoi (Dionysius ofIlalicarnassus, i. 85). The last mention is made of patricians in the edict of Diocletian forthe maximum ; but Gains said that for a long time past the genlilicium jus had ceased to exist. 74 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. lished the grades necessary to make the distance between himselfand the multitude. It was a vain precaution ; for this factitiousnobility, like any nobility which is not of its own begetting,while powerless to resist him wh
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. TpaUov . . TrfvrfjKovTa . . oIkoi (Dionysius ofIlalicarnassus, i. 85). The last mention is made of patricians in the edict of Diocletian forthe maximum ; but Gains said that for a long time past the genlilicium jus had ceased to exist. 74 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. lished the grades necessary to make the distance between himselfand the multitude. It was a vain precaution ; for this factitiousnobility, like any nobility which is not of its own begetting,while powerless to resist him who had created it, was also toofeeble either to defend from enemies or to restrain him from hisown errors. Three centuries later, Diocletian and Constantine tookup this idea more seriously, but without any greater success. Octa-vius nevertheless retained all his rancor against the nobility ; andhe allowed it to ajDpear by forbidding any senator to leave Italywithout express permission.^ It is true that here again his sus-picions were veiled imder the pretext of desiring a good adminis-. COMBAT OF GLADIATORS. tration of the state, and that the prohibition was renewed fromancient con-sular edicts, so that it appeared to be a return toold and wise customs. The greater part of these measures were taken during hisfifth consulship. In the following year (28 B. c.) he completed thecensus, which registered 4,063,000 citizens between the ages ofseventeen and sixty.^ The last numbering, in the year 70, hadgiven one ninth of this, — four hundred and fifty thousand. The Dion, lii. 12; Tac, Ann. xii. 23. In this edict Sicily and Gallia Narbonensis wereconsidered as Italian territory. Iainting in the house of Scaurus at Pompeii, from I^Iazois (Pomp., i. pi. 32). TwoSamnite» have fought two mirmillon/s. On the frie/.e are inscribed the names of the gladiators,tliosc of their masters, and the niimher of their victories. • Monum. .Anryr. No. 8. Ihis number of 4,0(13,000 citizens between the
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