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).

21.  III.  Vi.  In Italy

22.  III.  Vi.  Conquest of Sicily

23.  The expenses of these were, however, probably thrown in great part on the adjoining inhabitants.  The old system of making requisitions of task-work was not abolished:  it must not unfrequently have happened that the slaves of the landholders were called away to be employed in the construction of roads. (Cato, de R. R. 2 )

24.  III.  Vi.  Pressure of the War

25.  III.  Vi.  In Italy

26.  III.  VII.  Celtic Wars

27.  III.  Vi In Italy

28.  III.  VII.  Latins

29.  II.  VII.  Non-Latin Allied Communities

30.  III.  VII.  Latins

31.  Thus, as is well known, Ennius of Rudiae received burgess-rights from one of the triumvirs, Q. Fulvius Nobilior, on occasion of the founding of the burgess-colonies of Potentia and Pisaurum (Cic.  Brut. 20, 79); whereupon, according to the well-known custom, he adopted the -praenomen- of the latter.  The non-burgesses who were sent to share in the foundation of a burgess-colony, did not, at least in tin’s epoch, thereby acquire -de jure- Roman citizenship, although they frequently usurped it (Liv. xxxiv. 42); but the magistrates charged with the founding of a colony were empowered, by a clause in the decree of the people relative to each case, to confer burgess-rights on a limited number of persons (Cic. pro Balb. 21, 48).

32.  III.  VII.  Administration of Spain

33.  III.  IX.  Expedition against the Celts in Asia Minor

34.  III.  X. Their Lax and Unsuccessful Management of the War f.

35.  II.  I. Term of Office

36.  III.  VII.  Administration of Spain

37.  III.  XI.  Italian Subjects, Roman Franchise More Difficult of Acquisition

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

39.  In Cato’s treatise on husbandry, which, as is well known, primarily relates to an estate in the district of Venafrum, the judicial discussion of such processes as might arise is referred to Rome only as respects one definite case; namely, that in which the landlord leases the winter pasture to the owner of a flock of sheep, and thus has to deal with a lessee who, as a rule, is not domiciled in the district (c. 149).  It may be inferred from this, that in ordinary cases, where the contract was with a person domiciled in the district, such processes as might spring out of it were even in Cato’s time decided not at Rome, but before the local judges.

40.  II.  VII.  The Full Roman Franchise

41.  II.  VII.  Subject Communities

42.  III.  VIII.  Declaration of War by Rome

43.  II.  III.  The Burgess-Body

44.  III.  XI.  Patricio-Plebian Nobility

45.  The laying out of the circus is attested.  Respecting the origin of the plebeian games there is no ancient tradition (for what is said by the Pseudo-Asconius, p. 143, Orell. is not such); but seeing that they were celebrated in the Flaminian circus (Val.  Max. i, 7, 4), and first certainly occur in 538, four years after it was built (Liv. xxiii. 30), what we have stated above is sufficiently proved.

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