The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 3,061 pages of information about The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5).

The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 3,061 pages of information about The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5).

65.  II.  III.  Laws Imposing Taxes

66.  V. V. Preparations of the Anarchists in Etruria

67.  IV.  VII.  Economic Crisis

68.  The Egyptian royal laws (Diodorus, i. 79) and likewise the legislation of Solon (Plutarch, Sol. 13, 15) forbade bonds in which the loss of the personal liberty of the debtor was made the penalty of non-payment; and at least the latter imposed on the debtor in the event of bankruptcy no more than the cession of his whole assets.

69.  I. XI.  Manumission

70.  II.  III.  Continued Distress

71.  At least the latter rule occurs in the old Egyptian royal laws (Diodorus, i. 79).  On the other hand the Solonian legislation knows no restrictions on interest, but on the contrary expressly allows interest to be fixed of any amount at pleasure.

72.  V. Vi.  Caesar’s Agrarian Law

73.  V. Vi.  Caesar’s Agrarian Law

74.  IV.  II.  Tribunate of Gracchus, iv.  II.  The Domain Question Viewed in Itself, iv.  IV.  The Domain Question under the Restoration

75.  IV.  XII.  Carneades at Rome, V. III.  Continued Subsistence of the Sullan Constitution

76.  IV.  X. The Roman Municipal System

77.  Of both laws considerable fragments still exist.

78.  V. XI.  Diminution of the Proletariate

79.  V. VII.  Gaul Subdued

80.  As according to Caesar’s ordinance annually sixteen propraetors and two proconsuls divided the governorships among them, and the latter remained two years in office (p. 344), we might conclude that he intended to bring the number of provinces in all up to twenty.  Certainty is, however, the less attainable as to this, seeing that Caesar perhaps designedly instituted fewer offices than candidatures.

81.  This is the so-called “free embassy” (-libera legatio-), namely an embassy without any proper public commission entrusted to it.

82.  V. II.  Piracy

83.  V. XI.  In The Administration of the Capital

84.  V. XI.  Foreign Mercenaries

85.  V. IX.  In the Governorships

86.  V. XI.  Financial Reforms of Caesar

87.  V. I. Organizations of Sertorius

88.  V. XI.  Robberies and Damage by War

89.  V. XI.  The Roman Capitalists in the Provinces

90.  V. I. Transpadanes, V. VIII.  Settlement of the New Monarchial Rule

91.  Narbo was called the colony of the Decimani, Baeterrae of the Septimani, Forum Julii of the Octavani, Arelate of the Sextani, Arausio of the Secundani.  The ninth legion is wanting, because it had disgraced its number by the mutiny of Placentia (p. 246).  That the colonists of these colonies belonged to the legions from which they took their names, is not stated and is not credible; the veterans themselves were, at least the great majority of them, settled in Italy (p. 358).  Cicero’s complaint, that Caesar “had confiscated whole provinces and districts at a blow” (De Off. ii. 7, 27; comp.  Philipp. xiii. 15, 31, 32) relates beyond doubt, as its close connection with the censure of the triumph over the Massiliots proves, to the confiscations of land made on account of these colonies in the Narbonese province and primarily to the losses of territory imposed on Massilia.

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