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Excerpt from History of Rome and the Roman People, From Its Origin to the Establishment of the Christian Empire, Vol. 4: Part I (From Augustus to the Death of Claudius) We have seen2 that, instead of overburdening the provinces to meet the new expenses of the army and the government, Augustus had constrained the citizens to bear' their share of the public costs. The contributions that he required from them supplied the military treasury, so that he made an equitable division, the citizens in part paying the army, which the inhabitants of the corn growing regions supplied with food, while the provincials paid the expenses of the provincial government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.