The History of Rome, Book II - From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy by Theodor Mommsen
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6. I. XII. Foreign Worships
7. II. I. Senate, 8. II. I. Senate, II. III. Opposition of the Patriciate 9. II. II. Legislation of the Twelve Tables 10. II. III. Equivalence Law and Plebiscitum 11. The statements as to the poverty of the consulars of this period, which play so great a part in the moral anecdote-books of a later age, mainly rest on a misunderstanding on the one hand of the old frugal economy--which might very well consist with considerable prosperity --and on the other hand of the beautiful old custom of burying men who had deserved well of the state from the proceeds of penny collections --which was far from being a pauper burial. The method also of explaining surnames by etymological guess-work, which has imported so many absurdities into Roman history, has furnished its quota to this belief (-Serranus-). 12. II. II. The Valerio-Horatian Laws 13. II. III. Equivalence Law and Plebiscitum 14. II. I. Restrictions on the Delegation of Powers 15. II. III. Increasing Powers of the Burgesses 16. Any one who compares the consular Fasti before and after 412 |
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