The History of Rome, Book IV eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 706 pages of information about The History of Rome, Book IV.

The History of Rome, Book IV eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 706 pages of information about The History of Rome, Book IV.

5.  IV.  IV.  Treaty between Rome and Numidia

6.  IV.  V. Warfare of Prosecutions

7.  It is not possible to distinguish exactly what belongs to the first and what to the second tribunate of Saturninus; the more especially, as in both he evidently followed out the same Gracchan tendencies.  The African agrarian law is definitely placed by the treatise De Viris Ill. 73, 1 in 651; and this date accords with the termination, which had taken place just shortly before, of the Jugurthine war.  The second agrarian law belongs beyond doubt to 654.  The treason-law and the corn-law have been only conjecturally placed, the former in 651 (p. 442 note), the latter in 654.

8.  All indications point to this conclusion.  The elder Quintus Caepio was consul in 648, the younger quaestor in 651 or 654, the former consequently was born about or before 605, the latter about 624 or 627.  The fact that the former died without leaving sons (Strabo, iv. 188) is not inconsistent with this view, for the younger Caepio fell in 664, and the elder, who ended his life in exile at Smyrna, may very well have survived him.

9.  IV.  IV.  Treaty between Rome and Numidia

10.  IV.  V. Warfare of Prosecutions

11.  IV.  IV.  Rival Demagogism of the Senate.  The Livian Laws

12.  IV.  V. And Reach the Danube

13.  IV.  IV.  Administration under the Restoration

14.  IV.  VI.  Collision between the Senate and Equites in the Administration of the Provinces

Chapter VII

1.  IV.  III.  Modifications of the Penal Law

2.  I. VII.  Relation of Rome to Latium, ii.  V. As to the Officering of the Army

3.  II.  VII.  Furnishing of Contingents; iii.  XI.  Latins

4.  III.  XI.  Roman Franchise More Difficult of Acquisition

5.  III.  XI.  Roman Franchise More Difficult of Acquisition

6.  IV.  III.  Democratic Agitation under Carbo and Flaccus, iv.  III.  Overthrow of Gracchus

7.  These figures are taken from the numbers of the census of 639 and 684; there were in the former year 394, 336 burgesses capable of bearing arms, in the latter 910,000 (according to Phlegon Fr. 12 Mull., which statement Clinton and his copyists erroneously refer to the census of 668; according to Liv.  Ep. 98 the number was—­by the correct reading—­ 900,000 persons).  The only figures known between these two—­those of the census of 668, which according to Hieronymus gave 463,000 persons—­ probably turned out so low only because the census took place amidst the crisis of the revolution.  As an increase of the population of Italy is not conceivable in the period from 639 to 684, and even the Sullan assignations of land can at the most have but filled the gaps which the war had made, the surplus of fully 500,000 men capable of bearing arms may be

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