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Sparta Compared with Rome
My object, then, in this digression is to make it
Sparta fails where Rome succeeds.
manifest by actual facts that, for guarding
their own country with absolute safety, and
for preserving their own freedom, the legislation of Lycurgus was entirely sufficient; and for those who
are content with these objecRome succeeds.
manifest by actual facts that, for guarding
their own country with absolute safety, and
for preserving their own freedom, the legislation of Lycurgus was entirely sufficient; and for those who
are content with these objects we must concede that there
neither exists, nor ever has existed, a constitution and civil order
preferable to that of Sparta. But if any one is seeking
aggrandisement, and believes that to be a leader and ruler and
despot of numerous subjects, and to have all looking and
turning to him, is a finer thing than that,—in this point of
view we must acknowledge that the Spartan constitution is
deficient, and that of Rome superior and better constituted for
obtaining power. And this has been proved by actual facts.
For when the Lacedaemonians strove to possess themselves of
the supremacy in Greece, it was not long before they brought
their own freedom itself
Carthage Compared with Rome
Now the Carthaginian constitution seems to me
Rome fresher than Carthage;
originally to have been well contrived Rome fresher than Carthage;
originally to have been well contrived in
these most distinctively important particulars. For they had
kings,The Carthaginian Suffetes are always called basilei=s by the Greek
write the whole
the adjustment of its several parts was very like that of Rome
and Sparta. But about the period of its entering on the
Hannibalian ee Bosworth Smith, Carthage and the Carthaginians, p. 26 ff. that of Rome improving. For whereas there is in
every body, or polity, or busines y so far as the strength and prosperity of Carthage
preceded that of Rome in point of time, by so much was
Carthage then past its prime, while Rome was exactly at its
zenith, as far as its political constitution was concerned. In
Carthage therefore the influence of the people in the policy
of the state had already risen to be supreme, while at Rome
the Senate was at the height of its power: and so, as in the
one measures w
Conclusion: Dangers Ahead for Rome
That to all things, then, which exist there is ordained
decay and change I think requires no further arguments to
show: for the inexorable course of nature is sufficient to
convince us of it.
But in all polities we observe two sources of decay existing
from natural causes, the one external, the other internal and
self-produced. The external admits of no certain or fixed
definition, but the internal follows a definite order. What
kind of polity, then, comes naturally first, and what second, I
have already stated in such a way, that those who are capable
of taking in the whole drift of my argument can henceforth
draw their own conclusions as to the future of the Roman
polity. For it is quite clear, in my opinion. When a commonwealth, after warding off many great dangers, has arrived at a
high pitch of prosperity and undisputed power, it is evident
that, by the lengthened continuance of great wealth within it,
the manner of life of its citizens will b
Philip Begins to Become a Tyrant
Aratus seeing that Philip was now openly engaging in
war with Rome, and entirely changed in his policy toward his
allies, with difficulty diverted him from his intention by
suggesting numerous difficulties and scruples.
I wish now to remind my readers of what, in my fifth Book, I
put forward merely as a promise and unsupported statement, but
which has now been confirmed by facts; in order that I may
not leave any proposition of mine unproved or open to
question. 5, 12. In the course of my history of the Aetolian war,
where I had to relate the violent proceedings of
Philip in destroying the colonnades and other
sacred objects at Thermus; and added that, in consideration of
his youth, the blame of these measures ought not to be referred
to Philip so much as to his advisers; I then remarked that
the life of Aratus sufficiently proved that he would not have
committed such an act of wickedness, but that such principles
exactly suited Demetrius of Pharos; a