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Excerpt from The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic, Vol. 1 The offices of State, and the government of pro vinces, to which thofe who had occupied the for mer fucceeded, began to be coveted from mot1ves of avarice, as well as ambition. Complaints of peculation and extortion, which were received about this t1me from Spain and Macedonia, point ed out the necefiity of reraining fuch opprefiions, and fuggefied thofe penal laws, which were fo often, and with (0 little effect, amended and revived. 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.