. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. relian. 3 Hadrian, the Antonines, and other Roman emperors had aided theambitious Palmyrians in the architectural adornment of their capital. CHAPTER XVIII. THE REIGN OF DIOCLETIAN.( 284-305.) 238. General Statement. — The accession of Diocletianmarks an important era in the history of the Roman two matters of chief importance connected with hisreign are the changes heeffected in the governmentand his persecutions of theChristians. Diocletians governmentalreforms, though radical, weresalutary, and infused su
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. relian. 3 Hadrian, the Antonines, and other Roman emperors had aided theambitious Palmyrians in the architectural adornment of their capital. CHAPTER XVIII. THE REIGN OF DIOCLETIAN.( 284-305.) 238. General Statement. — The accession of Diocletianmarks an important era in the history of the Roman two matters of chief importance connected with hisreign are the changes heeffected in the governmentand his persecutions of theChristians. Diocletians governmentalreforms, though radical, weresalutary, and infused suchfresh vitality into the frameof the dying state as to giveit a new lease of life foranother term of nearly twohundred years. 239. The Empire becomes anUndisguised Oriental Monarchy.— There are two chief andsharply contrasted types ofgovernment in the world. Under the one type publicaffairs are carried on through discussions, ballotings, andelections in assemblies of the people; under the other typeall public matters are in the hands of one man, and his will 381. Diocletian. (From a bust in Capitoline Museum.) 382 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. is law. The first type gives us the free republic, the secondthe absolute monarchy. The Asiatic peoples from theearliest times have lived under governments of the monar-chical type; the cities of ancient Greece and Italy earlydeveloped republican constitutions. It was the adoptionby them of popular government which we think was onechief cause of their superiority to the Asiatic peoples. We have followed the career of the Romans through thefour centuries and more when they were a self-governingpeople; and we have watched the transformation of theirrepublican government into one of the Asiatic type. But wehave also noticed how up to the time we have now reachedthe really monarchical character of the government wasmore or less carefully concealed under the forms and namesof the old republic. This, as we already have said, was aconcession made by t
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