Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
Summary
From the time that the number and personal importance of plebeians in the senate had become great and went on increasing, and as in like manner the number of nobleminded patricians was ever extending, who were heartily tired of the vexatious conduct of their unmanageable brother-patricians, and along with the leaders of the plebeians strove joyfully onward,—there must have arisen an important and mischievous discord between the majority of the patres conscripti and the common council of the patres, the curies. It was sure to be the case, that the majority in the latter, possessing no experience gained by the management of public affairs, without any responsibility for their success, and lamenting the times, when the senate represented their claims to their ancient privileges, raised protestations on all occasions, and gave themselves up to great exasperation, especially against the sensible members of their own order, and decried them as apostates. It was necessary that such a state of things should be done away with, in which a faction, that was daily sinking in relative power and importance, disturbed the senate in its vocation as the government.
That this was not the party feeling of one order against the other, but the rational feeling of the good citizens and the friends of their country towards the contemptible disturbers of the peace, is plain even from the fact, that it was a patrician of one of the very first houses, the consul Tiberius Æmilius, who, when the conclusion of the campaign of 411 (416) afforded leisure, invested his collegue Q. Publilius Philo with the power of the dictatorship, in order to remove the evil by laws, which, if proposed by tribunes, would have taken a far more stormy course.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 146 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1842