. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Spain. The slaves that had taken part in the revolt were huntedthrough the mountains and forests and exterminated likedangerous beasts. The Appian Way was lined with sixthousand crosses bearing aloft as many bodies, — a terriblewarning of the fate awaiting slaves who should dare tostrike for freedom. 183. The Consulship of Pompey and the Overthrow of theSullan Constitution (70 ). — In recognition of his servicesin the Spanish and the Gladiatorial war, Pompey was madeconsul for the year 70 Crassus, the conqueror of
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Spain. The slaves that had taken part in the revolt were huntedthrough the mountains and forests and exterminated likedangerous beasts. The Appian Way was lined with sixthousand crosses bearing aloft as many bodies, — a terriblewarning of the fate awaiting slaves who should dare tostrike for freedom. 183. The Consulship of Pompey and the Overthrow of theSullan Constitution (70 ). — In recognition of his servicesin the Spanish and the Gladiatorial war, Pompey was madeconsul for the year 70 Crassus, the conqueror ofSpartacus, was chosen as his colleague. Pompey did not owe the consulate to the senatorialparty, to which he nominally belonged, for they were jeal-ous of his growing popularity and threw every obstacle THE PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION. 271 they could in the way of his advance. He owed his elec-tion to the popular party, with the leaders of which he hadentered into a political bargain, the terms of which werethat in return for the consulate, a triumph, and lands for. Pompey the Great. (From bust in the Spada Palace.) his veterans, he should aid the people in repealing theSullan laws and restoring the essential features of theGracchan The Sullan constitution had been in force now for nineyears, but during all this time its enemies had labored to 6 For the main proposals embraced by the peoples program, seepar. 180. 272 ROME AS A REPUBLIC. overthrow it by force of arms in the field and by the tacticsof the demagogue in the forum. Already the oligarchicalparty had been forced to yield some ground. At the timeof the agitation started by Lepidus (par. 180), the largessesof corn, which Sulla had forbidden, were again authorized (78 ). No sooner was Pompey installed in office than he pro-ceeded to make good his promises to the democrats. Hecarried first a law which restored to the tribunes the time-honored prerogatives of which Sulla had stripped them. The Sullan ar
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