Identifier: historyofromeromv4p1duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ste to imitate,1 believedthat he had found a principle of conservation for his governmentand a method of recruiting his officials. The Republic did not askof Cincinnatus or Fabricius the amount of their property beforemaking them senators; Fabiais Buteo did not concern himself toknow whether the senatorial census was lacking or not to thecitizens who had received civic crowns, whom he enrolled assenators, after the battle of Cannre ; and Caesar, in giving thelaticlave to certain centurions, regarded their services and nottheir fortunes. Augustus, more critical, required 1,200,000 sesterces 1 Pliny is well aware thai the whole imperial constitution rested on an aristocracy ofwealth; after extolling the ancient times, he says: Posteris .... rerum amplitudo damnofuit: postquam senator censu legi coeptus, judex fieri censu, magistratum ducemque nil magisexornare quam census (Hist. \f.,\\\. )). This judgment is expressly confirmed by l>i. 735. Jf-hfrFu,
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IIJJ.PiBPANPAntinous of the Belvedere, found upon the Esquiliue (p. :?45). WORK OF AUGUSTUS AND CHARACTER OF THE NEW EMPIRE. 251 for senators and 400,000 for knights ; it was the means by whichhe made part of them his pensioners. And besides, since thesenate had now no longer the power, it was essential to give itsomething else which would seem splendid and produce an effecton the crowd. But an aristocracy of wealth never becomes apolitical body subsisting by itself, save in a commercial andmanufacturing state, where the worth of gold is known and thoseare honoured who have honestly gained it. At Borne fortunewas not the product of free and honest labour. It was oftenderived from the worst sources, usury, legacy hunting, foul trades,mendicancy at court. In the first rows of the amphitheatre, whencethe honest poor man was driven, Juvenal saw barbers, the sonsof gladiators, public criers, men of infamous trades, who with goldpicked out of the mud had bought the right to sit among theequ

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