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Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), THE CIVIL WARS, INTRODUCTION (search)
racy together. In this translation the word "people" will be used in all cases as the equivalent of dh=mos, except where a distinction between plebs and populus is necessary to a correct understanding of the text. and Senate of Rome [in the olden time] were often at strife with each other concerning the enactment of laws, the cancelling of debts, the division of lands, or the election of magistrates. Internal discord did not bring them to blows, however; thein a great battle, and followed him to B.C. 48 Egypt. After Pompey had been slain by the Egyptians Cæsar set to work on the affairs of Egypt and remained there until he had settled the dynasty of that country. Then he returned to Rome. Having overpowered by war his principal rival, who had been surnamed the Great on account of his brilliant military exploits, he now ruled without disguise, nobody daring any longer to dispute him about anything, and was chosen,
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), THE CIVIL WARS, CHAPTER I (search)
ly just, to deprive men of so many possessions they had held so long, including their own trees, buildings, and fixtures, a law was once Y.R. 387 passed with difficulty at the instance of the tribunes, that B.C. 367 nobody should hold more than 500 jugera of this land, th=sde th=s gh=s. "Of this land," the public land (ager publicus), not land in general. There has been much controversy over the question whether the agrarian laws of Rome were sumptuary laws intended to restrict the amount of landed property that one man could hold, or whether they applied only to the public domain, and this passage in Appian has played a large part in the controversy. M. Dureau de la Malle in his £Economie Politique des Romains (ii. 282 seq.) held that they were true sumptuary laws and he cited numerous authorities in support of the position. The most thorough examination of this question ha
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), THE CIVIL WARS, CHAPTER III (search)
milianus employed in it -- His Mysterious Death -- Gaius Gracchus elected Tribune -- He gives the Judicial Power to Knights--Demands Roman Citizenship for Italian Allies--Sails to Africa with Fulvius Flaccus--Rioting in Rome after his Return--Death of Gracchus and Flaccus Y.R. 622 After Gracchus was slain Appius Claudius died, and Fulvius Flaccus and Papirius Carbo were appointed, in conjunction with the younger Gracchus, to diyed it, had devoted it with curses to sheep-pasturage forever. They assigned 6000 colonists to this place, instead of the smaller number fixed by law, in order further to curry favor with the people thereby. When they returned to Rome they invited the 6000 from the whole of Italy. The functionaries who were still in Africa laying out the city wrote home that wolves had pulled up and scattered the boundary marks made by Gracchus and Fulvius, and the sooth
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), THE CIVIL WARS, CHAPTER V (search)
e citizenship. They hoped to bring all the leaders under malicious indictment, and themselves to sit in judgment on them, and that when their enemies were out of the way they should be more powerful than ever in the government of Rome. When the other tribunes interposed their veto the knights surrounded them with drawn daggers and enacted the measure, whereupon accusers at once brought actions against the most illustrious of the senators. Of these Bestia did n all of whom had been hostile to the Romans before; also all the rest extending from the river Liris (which is now, I think, the Liternus) to the extremity of the Adriatic gulf, both inland and sea-coast. They sent ambassadors to Rome to complain that although they had coöperated in all ways with the Romans in building up the empire, the latter had not been willing to admit their helpers to citizenship. The Senate answered sternly that if they repented of what