A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . COIN OF OAJUS MARIUa. CHAPTER YIII. FBOH THE TIME OF THE GRACCHI DOWN TO THE FIRSTWAR AGAINST MITHRADATES. 133 TO 88. The Koman aristocracy, or the optimates, as they calledthemselves, consisting of both patricians and plebeians,had gradually stepped into the place of the old patricians ;and although the law did not recognise them as a distinctorder, they nevertheless endeavoured by all means tosecure the exclusive possession of the great offices and ofthe domain land. Their number
A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . COIN OF OAJUS MARIUa. CHAPTER YIII. FBOH THE TIME OF THE GRACCHI DOWN TO THE FIRSTWAR AGAINST MITHRADATES. 133 TO 88. The Koman aristocracy, or the optimates, as they calledthemselves, consisting of both patricians and plebeians,had gradually stepped into the place of the old patricians ;and although the law did not recognise them as a distinctorder, they nevertheless endeavoured by all means tosecure the exclusive possession of the great offices and ofthe domain land. Their number was comparatively small,but they contrived to hold in theii^ hands the administra-tion of the republic and of the proAonces, and thus theyalone reaped wealth and glory from foreign wars. In thismanner they amassed enormous riches, while multitudeswere pining in poverty. The small landed proprietorswho had once constituted the strength of the republichad nearly disappeared, and instead of them there hadarisen a class of men who spent their life in idleness, andwere ready to sell their votes to the highest
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