This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...price. They were also influenced by the mob of those deprived of political rights, when, crowding the public place, as at the English hustings, they sought, by their cries and gestures, to act on the minds of the citizens. On another hand, proud of the deeds of their ancestors, the principal families, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...price. They were also influenced by the mob of those deprived of political rights, when, crowding the public place, as at the English hustings, they sought, by their cries and gestures, to act on the minds of the citizens. On another hand, proud of the deeds of their ancestors, the principal families, in possession of the men to be inscribed in all the tribes, and allows their sons the entrance to the Senate. (Diodorus Siculua, XX. 36.)--In 450 the censor Q. Fabius Rullianus (Maximus) confines them to tho four urban tribes (Titus LiviuB, IX. 46); towards 530, other censors opened again all the tribes to them; in 534, tho censors L. Emilius Papus and C. Plaminius re-established the order of 450 (Titus Livius, Epitome, XX.); an exception is made in favour of those who have a son of the age of more than five years, or who possess lands of the value of more than 30,000 sestertii (XLV. 15); in 585. the censor Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus expels them from the rustio tribes, where they had been again introduced, and unites them in one sole urban tribe, the Esquiline. (Titus Livius, XLV. 15.--Cicero, De Oraiore, I. ix. 38.)--(G39). "The.iBmilian law permits freedmen to'vote in the four urban tribes." (Aurolius Victor, Illustrious Men, 72.) (') Valerius Maximus, VI. 2, 3.--Velleius Paterculus, II. 4. soil and of the power, desired to preserve this double advantage without being obliged to show themselves worthy of it; they seemed to disdain the severe education which had made them capable of filling all offices, () so that it might be said that there existed then at Eome an aristocracy without nobility, and a democracy without people. There were, then, injustices to redress, exigencies to satisfy, and abuses to repress; for...
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Fair. 1865 & 1866 Hardcover 2 Volume Set. Ex-Library. Text is clean. Binding is strong. Rough cut pages, some pages uncut. Inside hinges are partially cracked, old moisture marks on page edges, minor foxing. Green cloth covers, stamped borders & designs, beveled edges. Corners & edges are rubbed, small edge pieces missing from spine ends, small tears along spine sides. Covers are worn. **No shipping outside the United States available for this heavy set. **