History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . lli adds: Decuriones . . patres videntur se interdum vocasse. Cf. Cic,In \rerr. ii. 4!), the Tabula Heracl. (lin. , 86), and the Tndi x of 2 See the Allium of Canusium (Insrr. Neap. No. 635). 3 EX COXSEXSV D. (ex consensu decurionutri) C. C. I. B. (Colonia Campcstris JuliaBahlia). Babba, according to Fliny, was a Roman colony founded by Augustus in Mauretania,forty miles from Lixus, with the surname Julia Campestris. Bronze with the figure ofAesculapius. 4 Orelli, Nos. 3,768 and 3,765.
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . lli adds: Decuriones . . patres videntur se interdum vocasse. Cf. Cic,In \rerr. ii. 4!), the Tabula Heracl. (lin. , 86), and the Tndi x of 2 See the Allium of Canusium (Insrr. Neap. No. 635). 3 EX COXSEXSV D. (ex consensu decurionutri) C. C. I. B. (Colonia Campcstris JuliaBahlia). Babba, according to Fliny, was a Roman colony founded by Augustus in Mauretania,forty miles from Lixus, with the surname Julia Campestris. Bronze with the figure ofAesculapius. 4 Orelli, Nos. 3,768 and 3,765. 6 Ornarnenta decurionalia (L. Renier, Inscr. aAUj. 1,520; Ilenzen, Nos. 7,006, 6,328,6,111, 5,231, etc.). 6 Bronzes of Osuna, capp. exxi. and cxxvii. 58 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. enjoyed its advantages, especially when we consider that to honorswhich gratified mens vanity was added the power which satisfiedpresent ambition and opened the most brilliant prospects in thefuture, since municipal magistracies might and often did lead tothe Roman Senate and to the great offices of HOUSE OP A DECURION OF POMPEII (LUCRETIUS, FLAMEN OF MARS AND DECURION). Like modern municipal councils, the curia deliberated on allquestions in which the city or its territory was concerned. It passeddecrees, and Hadrian had ordered obedience to It deter-mined the citys expenses, after appointing a commission to examine 1 Quod semel ordo decrevit non oportere id rescindi; but he added, Nisi ex causa, id est, siad publicam utilitatem respiciat rescissio prions decreli (Digest, 1. 0, o). Thus we see, in thissingle expression, the old law of municipal liberties, and the new law, which was just comingin force, of the absolute dependence of the municipalities. THE CITY. 59 accounts,1 it caused to be sold, when needful, the securities andpledges lodged in the municipal coffers, disposed of the commonlands,2 and appointed the Its liberty of action was great,for its decisions needed
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