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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt:...order everywhere respected; and he strove by his laws to render it worthy of its mission. But, with this system, the government of the provinces was carried on only in the interest of a pacified Rome. The effort was useless, for it aimed at nothing less than to arrest the world's movement. Augustus had given the parting advice to be miserly of the citizenship; but, in the short space of thirty-four years, the number of citizens had increased by 2,000,000. At the census of the year 11 A.d. there were but 4,937,000 out of more than 21,000,000 souls; when Claudius closed the lustrum in the year 48 he announced 5,984,072 citizens, or, according to other statements, G,914,000, representing a population of 30,000,000, an average annual increase of 260,000, or more than one per cent, a year. Even in establishing from time to time some colony, and in making here and 1 He was condemned in the year 49 (Tac, Ann., xii. 22). 'Dion, lx. 11. 3 r. KAiilOS P0rO£ AN9YnAT02 Cadius Rufus proconsul). Two story edifice, on the base of which is the word NEIKAIEQN. Bronze coin struck at Nicaia (Cabinet de France). The temple of Jupiter at Pergamos, of which so magnificent remains have lately been found, has also two stories. VOL. IV. EE there a few citizens, the emperors yielded to a necessity which they did not comprehend, and no one possessed that great art of making a force so easily produced and disciplined an element of progress and conservation. This secret of the greatness of Rome had been divined by Claudius: in the open senate, in the face of the nobles who were so prompt to forget that their laticlave hid many an Italian and many a foreigner, he called to mind, with a rare historic intelligence, how Rome had been formed; he showed that the same law of continuous ex...