Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . CHAPTER IV. QUiESTORSHIP ; AND SUPREMACY OF POMPEIUS. 69-66 O a superficial observer, at theclose of the year 70 , itmight possibly have seemedthat the Republic had beengiven a new lease of life. Theconstitution was again almostin the same condition as be-fore the Social and Civil wars,and a sense of past errors anddangers might suggest to theleaders of all parties the desirability of trying towork it in harmony for the good of the serious danger was imminent at the moment;the Slave war was at an end, and the de
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . CHAPTER IV. QUiESTORSHIP ; AND SUPREMACY OF POMPEIUS. 69-66 O a superficial observer, at theclose of the year 70 , itmight possibly have seemedthat the Republic had beengiven a new lease of life. Theconstitution was again almostin the same condition as be-fore the Social and Civil wars,and a sense of past errors anddangers might suggest to theleaders of all parties the desirability of trying towork it in harmony for the good of the serious danger was imminent at the moment;the Slave war was at an end, and the democraticpower in Spain had been crushed. LucuUus seemedon the point of finishing the Mithridatic War. Thiseminent member of the senatorial party had showngreat vigour and military ability, had penetrated 53. 54 yult7is CcBsar. [69 victoriously into the heart of Armenia, and yetmight be counted on as a loyal servant of theRepublic. And, indeed, for two or three years this promisingcondition of things continued. The years 69 and68 must have been tolerably quiet ones, for ourauthorities have very little to tell us of them. TheMithridatic War was not, indeed, brought to a close,as might have been expected, and Lucullus beganto have difficulties with his own soldiers. Thepirates had not been effectually checked, though asenatorial general, the father of the famous MarcusAntonius, had been invested with an extraordinarycommand with that object. The economic conditionof Italy was also alarming; for the long series ofwars, ending with the Slave war, and the violentdisplacement of landholders by Sulla to make roomfor his own veterans, had destroyed all sense of thesecurity of property, and the material of revolutionwas to be found everywhere. Still, had a singlereal statesman appeared on
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