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History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2. Napoleon III
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At the beginning of each consular year, the magistrates or deputies of the towns were obliged to repair to Rome, and the consuls there fixed the contingent which each of them was to furnish according to the list of the census. These lists were drawn up by the local magistrates, who sent them to the Senate, and were renewed every five years, except in the Latin colonies, where they seem to have taken for a constant basis the number of primitive colonists.
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The country of the Samnites, among others, was completely cut up by these domains.
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Titus Livius places in the mouth of the consul Decius, in 452, these remarkable words: “Jam ne
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Titus Livius, XIV. 48.
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We have the proof of this in the condemnation of those who transgressed the law of Stolo. (Titus Livius, X. 13.)
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Valerius Maximus, IV. iii. 5. – Plutarch,
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Valerius Maximus, IV. iii. 6.
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Valerius Maximus, IV. iii. 9.
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Titus Livius, IX. 46.
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“The goods of the debtor, not his body, should be responsible for the debt. Thus all the captured citizens were free, and it was forbidden for ever to put in bonds a debtor.” (Titus Livius, VIII. 28.)
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Ignorance of the calendar, and of the method of fixing the festivals, left to the pontiffs alone the knowledge of the days when it was permitted to plead.
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“The lawyers, for fear that their services might become useless in judicial proceedings, invented certain formulæ, in order to make themselves necessary.” (Cicero,
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Titus Livius,
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Cicero,
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“You see here all the principal senators who set you the example. They will partake with you the fatigues and perils of war, although the laws and their age exempt them from carrying arms.” (
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Titus Livius, X., XII. 49.
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Valerius Maximus, II. viii. 4, 7.
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Plutarch,
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Aur. Victor,
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Titus Livius, IX. 10
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“A sedition was already rising between the patricians and the people, and the terror of so sudden a war (with the Tiburtini) stifled it.” (Titus Livius, VII. 12.) – “Appius Sabinus, to prevent the evils which are an inevitable consequence of idleness, joined with want, determined
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Claudius made war thus in Umbria, and took the town of Camerinum, the inhabitants of which he sold for slaves. (See Valerius Maximus, VI. v. § 1. – Titus Livius,
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“The military port alone contained two hundred and twenty vessels.” (Appian,
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Appian,
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Strabo, XVII. iii. § 15.
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Appian,
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5,820,000 francs [£232,800]. (Appian,
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The Æginetic talent was equivalent to 8,500 Attic drachmas (37 kilogrammes, 2 gr.) = 8,270 francs [£330 16s.]. The Babylonic silver talent is of 33 kilogrammes, 42 = 7,426 francs [£297]. (See, for details, Mommsen,
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Nearly 700,000 francs [£28,000]. (Athenæus, XII. lviii. 509, ed. Schweighæuser.)
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Strabo, XVII. iii. § 15.
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