quaestu, vel contenta potius; ut saepe ex alto in portum, ex ipso portu in agros se possessionesque contulerit, videtur optimo iure posse laudari.  Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agricultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius-.  According to this the respectable man must, in strictness, be a landowner; the trade of a merchant becomes him only so far as it is a means to this ultimate end; science as a profession is suitable only for the Greeks and for Romans not belonging to the ruling classes, who by this means may purchase at all events a certain toleration of their personal presence in genteel circles.  It is a thoroughly developed aristocracy of planters, with a strong infusion of mercantile speculation and a slight shading of general culture.

52.  IV.  IV.  Administration under the Restoration

53.  We have still (Macrobius, Hi, 13) the bill of fare of the banquet which Mucius Lentulus Niger gave before 691 on entering on his pontificate, and of which the pontifices—­Caesar included—­the Vestal Virgins, and some other priests and ladies nearly related to them partook.  Before the dinner proper came sea-hedgehogs; fresh oysters as many as the guests wished; large mussels; sphondyli; fieldfares with asparagus; fattened fowls; oyster and mussel pasties; black and white sea-acorns; sphondyli again; glycimarides; sea-nettles; becaficoes; roe-ribs; boar’s-ribs; fowls dressed with flour; becaficoes; purple shell-fish of two sorts.  The dinner itself consisted of sow’s udder; boar’s-head; fish-pasties; boar-pasties; ducks; boiled teals; hares; roasted fowls; starch-pastry; Pontic pastry.

These are the college-banquets regarding which Varro (De R. R. iii. 2, 16) says that they forced up the prices of all delicacies.  Varro in one of his satires enumerates the following as the most notable foreign delicacies:  peacocks from Samos; grouse from Phrygia; cranes from Melos; kids from Ambracia; tunny fishes from Chalcedon; muraenas from the Straits of Gades; bleak-fishes (? -aselli-) from Pessinus; oysters and scallops from Tarentum; sturgeons (?) from Rhodes; -scarus—­fishes (?) from Cilicia; nuts from Thasos; dates from Egypt; acorns from Spain.

54.  IV.  VII.  Economic Crisis, iv.  IX.  Death of Cinna

55.  III.  X. Greek National Party

56.  IV.  XI.  Capitalist Oligarchy

57.  III.  XIII.  Luxury

58.  IV.  XII.  Practical Use Made of Religion

59.  III.  XIII.  Cato’s Family Life, iv. 186 f.

60.  IV.  I. Achaean War

61.  IV.  XII.  Mixture of Peoples

62.  V. Vi.  Caesar’s Agrarian Law

63.  V. XI.  Dolabella

64.  This is not stated by our authorities, but it necessarily follows from the permission to deduct the interest paid by cash or assignation (-si quid usurae nomine numeratum aut perscriptum fuisset-; Sueton.  Caes. 42), as paid contrary to law, from the capital.