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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, by HAKPEB & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's Office cf the District Court of the Southern District of New York. NOTICE, THE present History has been drawn up chiefly fot the lower forms in schools, at the request of several teachers, and is intended to range with the author's Smaller History of Greece. It will be followed by a similar History of England. The author is indebted in this work to several of the more important articles upon Roman history in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography. The Table of Contents presents a full analysis of the work, and has been so arranged that the teacher can frame from it questions for the examination of his class, the answers to which will be found in the correspond- ing pages of the volume. The restoration of the Forum has been designed by Mr. P. W. Justyne. W.S. Temple of Janus. (From a Coirt) Julius Caesar. CONTENTS. CHAPTER J. GEOGRAPHY OF ITALY. Page Position of Italy .................. 1 Its boundaries .................... 1 Its two Divisions .................. 1 I. Gallia (Jisalpina .............. 2 Lignria ..................... 2 Venetia ..................... 2 II. Italia, properly so called. ...... 2 Etruria Umbria Picenum Siibiui. EAELY INHABITANTS. Page Apulia 4 t.'alabria 4 Lucania 4 Brnttii 4 Fertility of Italy 5 Its productions 5 Its inhabitants 5 I. Italians proper 5 1. Latins 5 2. Umbro-Sabellians 5 II. lapvgians. . . .5 Peligni Vestini Marrucini .................. 8 Frentani .................... 3 Latium : its two senses ...... 3 The (Jampagna ............ 3 The Pontine Marches ...... 4 Campania .................. 4 Hay of Naples ............. 4 Samnium ........ ____ 4 III. Etruscana Their name Their language Their origin Their two confederacies. . 1. North of the Po 2. South of the Apen- nines Foreign races IV. Greeks G Gauls.... . C CHAPTER II. THE FIKST FOUR KINGS OF ROME. B.C. 753-G1G. Position of Rome 7 Its Inhabitants 7 1. Latins 7 Hues 7 '.'. Etruscans 7 Remarks on early Roman his- tory 8 Legend of J-Ineas 8 Legend of Ascanius 8 Foundation of Alba Loaga.. . B.C. Legend of Rhen Silvia 8 Birth of Romulus and Remus. . 8 Their recognition by Numitor 9 753. Foundation of Rome 9 Roma Quadrata 9 Pomcerimn 9 Death of Remus 10 753-716. Reign of Romulus 9 Asylum 10 Rtipj of Sabines 10 Vlll CONTENTS. B.C. Page War with Sabincs 10 Tarpeia 10 Sabine women 10 Joint reign of Romulus and Titus Tatius 11 Death of Titus Tatius.. 11 Sole reign of Romulus. . 11 Death of Romulus 11 Institutions ascribed to Romulus 12 Patricians & Clients 12 Three tribes Ram- nes, Tities, Lu- ceres 12 Thirty Curiae 12 Three lIundredGen- tes 12 Comitia Curiata 12 The Senate 12 The Army 12 716-G73. Reign of Numa Pompilius 12 Institutions ascribed to Numa Pompilius 12 Pontiffs 12 Augurs 13 B.O. Page Flamens 13 Vestal Virgins 13 Salii 13 Temple of Janus... 13 673-6-11. Reign of Tullus Hu.-tilius 13 War with Alba Longa. . 13 Battle of the Iloratii and Curiatii 13 Wiir with the Etruscans 14 Punishment of Mcttius Fuifetius, Dictator of Alba Longa. 14 Destruction ofAlbaLonga 14 Removal of its inhabit- ants to Rome 14 Origin of the Roman Plebs 14 Death of Tullusllostilius 14 G40-616. Reign of Ancus Marcius. . 14 War with the La tins... 14 Increase of the Plebs. . . 15 Ostia 15 Janiculum ] 5 Pons Sublicius 15 Death of Ancus Marcius 15 CHAPTER III. TUB LAST TIIEEE KINGS OF ROME, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC DOWN TO TUB BATTLE OF TUB LAKE REGILLUS. K.C. C16-49S. 616-578. Reign of Tarquinius Priscua 16 His early history 16 His removal to Rome. . . 16 Becomes king 10 His wars 16 The Cloacae 16 Circus Maximus 17 Increase of the Senate. . 17 Increase of the Equites 17 Attus Navius 17 Increase of the Vestal Virgins 17 Early history of Servius Tullius 17 Death of Tarquinius Priscua 18 578-534. Reign of ijervius Tullius.. IS I. Reform of the Roman Constitution IS 1. Division of the Ro- man territory into Thirty Tribes.... IS 2. Comitia Centuriata IS Cen-nis. 18 Five Classes 19 The Equites 19 Number of the Cen- turies 19 Three sovereign as- semblies Comitia Centuriata, Comi- tia Curiata, Comi- tia Tributa 20 II. Increase of the city : walls of fc'ervius Tullius 20 III. Alliance with the Latins 20 Death of Servius Tul- lius 22 534-510, Reign of Tarquinius Su- perbus 22 His tyranny 22 His alliance with the Latins 22 His war with the Vol- scians 23 Foundation of the temple on the Capitoline Hill 3 The Sibylline books.... 23 Legend of the Sibyl. ... 23 Capture of Gabii 23 King's sons and Brutus sent to consult the or- acle at Delphi 23 Lucretia 24 CONTENTS. ix is.c Page Expulsion of the Tar- quins 25 &09. Establishment of the Republic 25 The Consuls 25 First attempt to restore the Tarquins 25 Execution of the sons of Brutus 25 War of the Etruscans -with Rome 20 Death of Brutus 26 Defeat of the Etruscans. . 26 Valerius Publicola 26 B.C. Page Dedication of the Capitoline Temple by M. Horatius 26 508. Second attempt to restore the Tarquins 26 Lars Porsena 2*5 Horatius Cocles 26 Mucius Scsevola 27 Clcelia 2T 498. Third attempt to restore the Tarquins 8 War with the Latins 28 Battle of the Lake Regillus 23 4S6. Death of Tarquinius Superbua 28 CHAPTER IV. FROM THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLCS TO THE DECEMVIRATE. B.C. 498-451. Struggles between the Patri- cians and Plebeians 29 Ascendency of the Patricians . . 29 Sufferings of the Plebeians oO Law of debtor and creditor 30 Ager Publicus 30 Object of the Plebeians to ob- tain a share in the political power and in the public land SO 434. Secession to the Sacred Mount 30 Fable of Menenius Agrippa 31 Institution of the Tribunes ofthePlebs 31 486. Agrarian Law of Sp. Cassius. . 81 Foreign wars 32 4S8. I. Coriolanus and the Vol- ecians 32 477. II. The Fabia Gens and the Veientines 33 458. III. Cincinnatus and the ^Equians 34 League between the Roman*, Latins, and Hernicans 35 CHAPTER V. THE DECEMVIEATE. u.c. 451-449. 471. Publilian Law, transferring the election of the Tribunes from the Comitia of Centuries to those of the Tribes 36 462. Proposal of the Tribune Teren- tilius Arsa for the appoint- ment of Decemviri 37 4CO. Seizure of the Capitol by ller- donius the Sabiue 37 454. Appointment of three Commis- sioners to visit Greece 37 452. Their return to Rome 37 451. Appointment ofthe Decemviri 37 The Ten Tables 37 450. New Decemviri appointed .... 37 Their tyranny 38 Two new Tables added, mak- ing twelve in all 38 449. The Decemviri continue in office 38 Death of Sicinius Dentatus . . 38 Death of Virginia 89 Second secession to the Sacred Mount 39 Resignation of the Decem- virs 39 Election of ten Tribunes . . 40 Valerian and lloratian Laws. . 40 Death of Appius Claudius 40 The Twelve Tables 40 CONTENTS. CHAPTER VI. THE DECEMYIEATE TO THE CAPTURE ov ROME BY THE GAULS. KG. 448-3'JO. B.C. Page 445. Third secession to the Sacred Motmt 41 Lex Canulcia for inter- marriage between the two orders 41 Institution of Military Tri- bunes with consular powers 41 443. Institution of the Censorship. . 41 421. Qiuestorship thrown open to the Plebeians 42 440. Famine at Rome 42 Death of Sp. Msraitis 42 Foreign wars 42 Roman colonies 43 JJ.o. Page War with the Etruscans 43 ^37. Spolia Opima won by A. Cor- nelius Cossus 43 420. Capture and destruction of Fi- denae 43 403. Commencement of siege of Veil 43 Tale of the Alban Lake ^3 396. Appointment of Camillus as Dictator. 43 Capture of Veii 44 394 War with Falerii 44 Tale of the Schoolmaster.. . . 44 Unpopularity of Camillus 44 331. He goes into exile 44 CHAPTER VII. FROM THE CAPTURE OF ROME BY THE Two OEDEKS. The Gauls, or Celts 45 391. Attack of Clusium by the Se- nones 45 Roman embassadors sent to Clusium'. 45 They take part in the fight against the Senones 45 The Senones march upon Rome 40 390. Battle of the Allia 46 Destruction of Rome 40 Siege of the Capitol 4(1 Legend of M. Manlius 47 Appointment of Camillus as Dictator 47 He delivers Rome from the Gauls 47 Rebuilding of the city 47 Further Gallic wars 48 361. Legend of T. Manlius Tor- quatus 48 349. Legend of M.Valerius Corvus 48 GAULS TO THE FINAL UNION OF TIIE B.C. 390-367. 385. Distress at Rome 48 8S4. M. Manlius comes forward as a patron of the poor 48 His fate 4') 370. Licinian Rogations proposed. . 4'.) Violent opposition of the Pa- tricians 50 307. Licinian Rogations passed 50 3o'0. L. Sextius first Plebeian Consul 50 Institution of the Prretorship. . 50 356. First Plebeian Dictator. 51 ; 51. First Plebeian Censor 51 336. First Plebeian Praetor 51 300. Lex Ogulnia, increasing the number of the Pontiffs and Augurs, and enacting that a certain number of them should be taken from the Plebeians 51 339. Publilmn Laws 51 2S6. Lex Hortensia. . . .61 CONTENTS. CHAPTER VIII. FaOM THE LICINIAN ROGATIONS TO THE END OF THE SAMNITE WABS. B.C. 307-290. n.o. Page 36 i Pestilence at Rome 52 Death of Camilla* 52 Tale of M. Curtius 53 The Simmites 5;} Their history 53 Division into foar tribes 53 Conquer Campania andLucania 53 Samnitcs of the Apennines at- tack the Sidicini 53 Campanians assist the Sidicini 53 They are defeated by the Sam- mies 53 They solicit the assistance of Rome 53 343-341. FIKST SAMNITB WAB 54 .Battle of Mount Gaurua 54 Peace concluded 54 Reasons for the conclu- sion of peace 54 340-C3S. THE LATIN WAH. 54 The armies meet near Mount Vesuvius 55 Tale of Torquatus 55 Decisive battle 55 Self-sacrifice of Dccius. . 55 Capture of Latin towns 50 Conclusion of the war. . . 56 329. Conquest of the Volscian town of Privernam 50 Origin of the Second Samnite War EG 32T. The Romans attack Palaeopolia and Neapolia 50 H.O. Page 826-804 SECOND SAMNITE WAB.. . . 5T First Period. Roman arms successful 57 3:5. Quarrel between L. Fa- I'.irius Dictator and Q. Fabius, his master of the horse 57 321-315. Second Period. Success of the Samnitea 57 321. Defeat of the Romans at the Caudine Forks by C. Pontius 53 Ignominious treaty re- jected by the Romans 58 314-304. Third Period. Success of the Romans. . 5S 311. War with the Etruscans 63 Defeat of the Etruscans 59 Defeat of the t-'amnites. . 53 C04. Peace with Rome 19 300. Conquests of Rome in Central Italy 59 Coalition of Etruscans, Umbri- ans, and Samnites against Rome 59 2CS-2CO. TIIIED SAMNITE WAR. ... 59 295. Decisive battle of Sen- tinum 59 Self-sacrifice of the younger Dccius 5?) 292. C. Pontius taken pris- oner aud put to death 59 CHAPTER IX. FROM THE CONCLUSION OF TUB SAMNITE WAR TO THE SUBJUGATION OF ITALY, B.O. 'JO 0-205. ?S3. War with the Etruscans and Gauls 00 lint Hoof the LakeVadimo GO 2S2. State of Magna Gra?cia CO The Romans assist Tlmrii GO Their fleet ia attacked by the Tan ntine-f Cl Roman embassy to Tarcntum Gl 2S1. War iiei l:msl against the Ta- rc-ntines Cl They apply for aid to Pyirlms Gl Pyrrhas arrives in Italy 02 23:. His first campaign against the Romans 62 Battle of lleraclea 62 Remarks of Pyrrhua on the victoiy 62 lie attempts to make peace with Rome 62 Failure of his minister Oil He marches upon Rome and arrives at I'rii'noste 63 Retires into winter quarters at Tarentum . G3 Xll CONTENTS, .c. Tage Embassy of Fabricius 03 279. Second campaign of Pyrrhus. . G4 BatUe of Asculum 64 278. Treachery of the physician of Pyrrhus 64 Truce with Rome 64 2TG, Pyrrhus crosses over into Sicily 64 . He returns to Italy 64 274. Defeat of Pyrrhus 65 He returns to Greece <'5 272. Subjugation of Tarentum C5 Conquest of Italy 65 273. Embassy of Ptolemy Philadel- phia to Rome 65 Three classes of Italian popu- lation : I. (Jives Romani, or Roman Citizens. . . .63 B.C. Page 1. Of the Thirty-three tribes GG 2. Of the Roman Col- onies 60 3. Of the Municipal Towns 66 II. Nomen Latinum, or the Latin name 66 III. Socii, or Allies 60 312. Censorship of Appius Claudius 67 His dangerous innovation as to the Frecdmen 07 G04. Repealed in the Censorship of Q. Fabius Muximus and P. Decius Mtis C7 312. The Appian Way 67 The Appian Aqueduct 67 Cn. Flavins G7 CHAPTER X. THE FIRST PUNIC WAB. B.C. 264-241. 814. Foundation of Carthage 68 Its empire 68 Its government 63 Its army 68 Its foreign conquests 63 Conquest of Messana by the Mamertini CO Iliero attacks the Mamertini. . 69 They apply for assistance to Rome GO 264. The Consul Ap. Claudius crosses over to Sicily to aid them ... 70 He defeats the forcas of Syra- cuse and Carthage 70 263. Iliero makes peace with the Romans ....'. 70 262. Capture of Agrigeutum by the Romans 70 260. The Romans build a fleet. . . . . 70 'Naval victory of the Consul Dnilius 71 256. The Romans invade Africa 1~1 Their naval victory 7 '3 Brilliant success of Regulus in Africa 72 The Carthaginians sue in vain for peace 72 255. Arrival of the Lacedaemonian Xanthippus 72 He restores confidence to the Carthaginians Defeat and capture of Regulus Destruction of the Roman fleet by a storm The Romans build another fleet 253. Again destroyed by a storm. . . The war confined to Sicily.. . . 260. Victory of Metellus at 1'anor- mus Embassy of the Carthaginians to Rome Heroic conduct of Regulus. . . . 250. Siege of Lilybamm . . \ 249. Defeat of the Consul Claudius at sea Destruction of- the Roman fleet a third time 247. Appointment of Hamilcar Bsir- ca to the Carthaginian com- mand. . . lie intrenches himself on Mount IlerctC-, near 1'anor- mus He iTJuuVi'-s to Mount Eryx. . . >41. Victory off the yFgatian Islands Pence with Carthage End of the War 75 CONTENTS. xiii CHAPTER XL EVENTS BETWEEN TIIE FIRST AND SECOND PUNIC WARS. B.C. 240-219. 240-238. War of the Mercenaries with Carthage 77 She owes her safety to Hamil- car 77 238. The Remans seize Sardinia and Corsica 77 1 lamilcar goes to Spain 78 235. Temple of Janus closed 78 Completion of the Thirty-five Roman Tribes 78 229. ILLYIUAN WAR. 78 Conquest of Teuta, queen of thelllyrians 78 22S. Honors paid to the Romans in the Grecian cities 78 232. Agrarian law of the Tribune Flaminius 78 225. GALLIC AVAR 78 Defeat of the Gauls at Tela- mon in Etruria 79 224. Conquest of the Boii 79 15. C. 223. 222. Pago The Romans cross the Po. . . 79 Conquest of the Insubres. . . 79 Marcelltis wins the Spolia Opima 79 220. The Via Flaminia from Rome to Ariminum 79 218. Foundation of Colonies at Pla- centia and Cremona 79 219. SECOND ILLYRIAN WAR 79 235. llamilcar in Spain 80 Oath of Hannibal 80 229. Death of Hamilcar 80 Hasdrubal succeeds him in the command 80 227. Treaty with Rome SO 221. Death of Hasdrubal 80 Hannibal succeeds him in the command 80 219. Siege of Saguntum SO Its capture -SI War declared against Carthage 81 CHAPTER XII. THE SECOND PUNIC WAR: FIRST PERIOD, DOWN TO THE BATTLE OF CANN.E. B.C. 218-21G. Great defeat of the Romans ... 80 Q. Fabius Maximus appointed Dictator 87 His policy S7 218. Preparations of Hannibal 82 His march to the Rhone S3 Arrival of the Consul Scipio at ;ia 83 Hannibal crosses the Rhone. . . 83 Scipio sends his brother to Spain, and returns himself to Italy 83 Hannibal crosses the Alps SB Skirmish on the Ticinus C 4 Battle of the Trcbia 84 Defeat of the Romans 84 217. Hannibal's inarch through Ktrtirisi 86 Battle of the Lake Trasimenus SO Rashness of Minucius, the Mas- ter of the Horse 87 216. Great preparations of the Ro- mans S3 Battle of Cannae 88 Great defeat of the Romans. . . S8 Revolt of Southern Italy Hannibal winters at Capua. . . 89 Note on Hannibal's passage across tffe Alps 90 CHAPTER XIII. SECOND PCNIC WAR: SECOND PERIOD, FROM THE REVOLT OF CAPUA TO THE BATTLE OF THE METAURUS. u.c. 215-207. 215. Plan of the War 91 Hannibal's repulse before Nola 92 214. He attempts in vain to surprise TaroRtur.i 92 213. He obtains possession of Ta- rentum 93 WAR IN SICILY 210. Death of Hiero 03 Succession of Hieronymus. . 93 His assassination 9;! 214. Arrival of Marcellus in Sicily 93 lie take.! Leontini 03 CONTENTS. ij.o. Page lie lays ?iege to Syracuse. . . 9i! Defended by Archimede*.. . . '.:) 212. Capture of Syracuse 94 WAK IN SPAIN 212. Capture mid death of the two Hcipios C5 Siege of Capua 1)5 211. Hannibal marches upon Rome 95 Is compelled to retreat % The Romans recover Capua. . . 96 K.C. Pago Punishment of its inhabitants 'J.i 209. The Romans recover Tarentum 9< 'J(K Defeat and death of Marcellus 1-7 _07. llasdrubal marches into Italy 9T lie besieges 1'lacentia 97 March of the Consul Nero to join his colleague Livius i Umbria 97 Battle of the Metaurus 18 Defeat and death of llaadrubal 98 CHAPTER XIV. SBCOND PDNIC WAR: THIRD PERIOD, FROM THE BATTLE OF Tin; METAURDS TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE WAR. B.C. '206-201. Character and early life of Scipio 99 210. He is elected Proconsul for Spain 100 He takes New Carthage 100 206. lie subdues Spain 101 lie crosses over into Africa and visits Syphax 101 He returns to Rome 102 205. His Consulship 102 lie prepares to invade Africa }02 His project is opposed by Fa- bius and others 102 204. He arrives in Africa 103 203. He defeats the Carthaginians and Syphax 1 03 Masinissa and Sophonisba... . 103 The Carthaginians recall Hannibal 104 202. Battle of Zama, and defeat of Hannibal 104 Terms of peace 105 201. Conclusion of the war 105 Triumph of Scipio 105 CH^ WARS ix THE EAST: THE MAC i State of the East LPT EDO !.C. 2 106 100 106 108 106 107 107 107 1(17 107 107 107 ~108 108 108 ER XV. IAN, SYRIAN, 4-188. 1 I] 200-196. SEC 200. F 199. S 1.98. T 197. P. mo. D 191-190. SYI A li Pontus Galatia State of Greece Macedonia ./Ktolian League Rhode 1 * 214-205. FIRST MACEDONIAN WAU- Its indecisive character 211. Treaty of the Romans with the ./Etolian 205. Conclusion of the war Philip's hostile acts lie assists the Cartha- ginians at the battle of Zama 108 His conduct in Greece 108 SECOND MACEDONIAN WAR First campaign : the Consul (ialba 103 Second campaign : the Consul Villius 103 Third campaign: the ( 'onsul Flamininus. . 109 Ilattle ofCynoscephalffl 109 Declaration of Grecian independence at the Isthmian Games 109 r-v: TAN \\'AR Antiochus the Tliir.l... 110 Intrigues of the, yEto- lians in (Ji-m-e HO CONTENTS. xv B.O. Page They invite Antiochus to Greece 110 Hannibal expelled from Carthage 110 1 I<; arrives in Syria.. . . 110 1 lis advice to Antiochus 1 10 192 Antiochus crosses over to Greece 110 191. The Komans defeat him at Thcrmopyhc 110 He returns to Asia 110 190. The Romans invade Asia Ill Battle of Magnesia 111 Defeat of Antiochus by Scipio Asiaticus Ill B.O. Pago Terms of peace Ill Hannibal flies to Pru- sins, king of Bithyn- iu Ill IS;). JETOLIAN WAE Fulvius takes Ambracia. . . Ill Terms of peace Ill 189. GALATIAN WAR Manlius attacks the G.nla- tians without the author- ity of the Senate or the People 112 1ST. lie returns to Rome 112 Effects of the Eastern con- quests upon the Roman r character. . . .112 CHAPTER XVI. WAES IN TIIE WEST : THE GALLIC, LIGUKIAN, AND SPANISH WARS. i5.c. 200-1T5. 200. THE GALLIC WAE The Gauls take Placentia and lay siege to Cremona 11. '5 Conquest of the Insubretf* v and Cenomani 114 191. Conquest of the Boii 114 190. Colony founded at Bononia. . 114 . 114 ISO. Via Emilia. 200. THE LIGUKIAN WAS Continued with intermis- sions for nearly SO years Character of the war 198. Two PROVINCES FORMED IN SPAIN 114 114 1C5. THE SPANISH WAR The Consul M. Porcius Cato, sent into Spain 114 His success 1 15 The Spaniards again take up arms 115 179. The war brought to a con- clusion by Tib. Sempnw nius Gracchus 115 178. THE ISTRIAN WAE 115 177-175. THE SARDINIAN ANB COESICAN WAE 115 CHAPTER XVII. THE ROMAN CONSTITUTION AND AEMY. Review of the history of the Roman Constitution 116 Political equality of the Patri- cians and Plebeians 110 I. THE MAGISTRATES The Lex Annalis 117 1. The Qurestore 117 2. The^Edilcs 117 3. The Proctors 117 4. The Consul? 118 5. The Dictators 118 6. The Censors 118 (a) The Census 118 (W Control over the morals of the citizens 119 (c) Administration of the finances of the state... 119 II. THE SENATE Its number 119 Its mode of Election 110 Its power and duties 119 III. THE POPULAB ASSEMBLIES 1. The Comitia Curiata. . 120 2. The Comitia Centuri- ata : change in its con- stitution 120 3. The Comitia Tributa. . 121 The Tribunes 121 The Plebiscita 121 IV. FINANCES Tributum 121 Vectigalia 121 CONTENTS. B.a Page V. THE ARMY Number of the Legion. . . 122 1. First Period Servius Tullius 122 2. Second Period The Great Latin War, u.c. 340 122 Hastati 122 Principe* 12 1 Triarii 122 RorariiandAccensi 123 3. Third Period During the wars of the youn- ger Scipio 123 Two legions assign- ed to each Consul 123 Page Division of the le- gion 123 The Maniples. .... 123 The Cohorts 123 The Trilmni Mili- tum 123 The Horse-soldiers 123 Infantry of the So- cii 123 4* Fourth Period From the times of the Grac- chi to the downfall of the Republic 123 Changes introduce^ byMarius 124 Triumphs , 124 CHAPTER XVIII. HiSTOBY OF ROME DURING THE MACEDONIAN AND SYRIAN AY ACS. CATO AND SCIPIO. Effect of the Roman conquests in the East 126 Debasement of the Roman character 126 192. Infamous conduct of L. Fla- mininus 127 ISO. Worship of Bacchns 127 Gladiatorial exhibitions 127 Rise of the new nobility 127 181. Law against bribeiy 127 Decay of the peasant proprie- tors 128 M. Porcius Cato 128 234.His birth 128 His early life 128 204 His QueestoTBhip 129 198. His Prsetorship 129 195. His Consulship 129 Repeal of the Oppian Law ICO 191. Cato serves in the buttle of Thermopylae 130 Prosecution of the two Scipios 130 Haughty conduct of Scipio Af- ricanus 130 Condemnation of Scipio Asi- aticus 130 Prosecution of Scipio Africa- nus 130 lie leaves Rome 1 31 1S3. His death 131 Death of Hannibal 132 184. Censorship of Cato 132 He studies Greek in his old age 132 His character. 133 CHAPTER XIX. THE THIRD MACEDONIAN, ACIIJSAN, AND THIRD PUNIC WAES. B.O. 179-146. 179. Death of Philip and accession of Perseus 131 172. Murder of Eumenes, king of Pergamus 135 171-168. THIRD MACEDONIAN WAR 168. Battle of Pydna 135 Defeat of Perseus by L. ^Emilius Paullus 135 167. ^Emilius Paullus punishes the Epirotes 135 His triumph 135 His domestic misfortunes 136 I [aughty conduct of Rome in the East 130 Embassy to Antiochus Epiph- anes 136 Treatment of Eumenes, king of Pergamus 136 Mean conduct of Prusias, king of Bythinia 13G Treatment of the llho- dians 136 167. One thousand Achseans sent to Italy 136 CONTENTS. xvii B.C. Page 151. The survivors allowed to re- turn to Greece 137 149. A pretender lays claim to the throne of Macedonia 137 lie is defeated and taken pris- oner 137 147-140. THE ACHAEAN WAR 140. Corinth taken hy L Mummius 1C8 Final conquest of Greece l.'N Rome jealous of Carthage 13 ) Advice of Scipio 139 B.C. Page War between Masinissa and Carthage 139 Conduct of the Romans 140 1 19-140. THIRD PCNIO WAR 147. Scipio Africanus the younger, Consul 140 His parentage and adoption 140 His character 140 146. He takes Carthage 142 Formation of the Roman prov- ince of Africa 142 Later history of Carthage. . . . 14^ CHAPTER XX. SPANISH WARS, B.O. 153-133. FIEST SEEVILE WAR, B.C. 134-132. 143 143 143 144 145 153. War with the Celtibermn.". . . 15.'. Peace with the Celtiberians . . 151. War with the Lusitanians. . . 150. Treacherous murder of the Lusitanians by Galba Success of Viriathus against the Romans 144 The Celtiberians again take up anna the Numantine War 140. Murder of Viriathus 138. Brutus conquers the Gallreci 137. The Consul Hostilius Manci- nus defeated by the Numan- tines 145 He signs a peace with the Nu- mantines 145 The Senate refuse to ratify it 145 142. Censorship of Scipio Africa- nus 145 134. Consul a second time 145 Jle carries on the war against Numantia... . . 140 133. He takes Numantia 14o Increase of slaves 143 They rise in Sicily 14G They elect Eunus as their leader 146 Eunus assumes the title oi king 146 134. He defeats the Roman gener- als 14T 144 132. Is himself defeated and taken prisoner 147 145 133. Death of Attalus, last king of Pergamus 147 lie bequeaths his kingdom to the Romans 147 131. Aristonicus lays claim to the kingdom of Pergaums 147 130.1s defeated and "taken pris- oner 147 129. Formation of the province of Asia 147 Extent of the Roman domin- ions... . 14T CHAPTER XXI. THE GBACCIII. Necessity for reform 148 Eaily life of Tiberius Grac- chus 140 1 37. Qua-st< >r in Spain 14!) 133. Elected Tribune 150 Brings forward an Agrarian Lav,- 150 Opposition of the landowners 1 50 The Tribune Octavius puts his veto upon it 150 ] '(-position of Octavius 151 The Agrarian Law enacted. . 151 u.o. 133-121. Three Commissioners elected 151 Distribution of the treasnie-s of Pergamus among the Ro- man people 151 Renewed opposition to Tibe- rius 161 He becomes a candidate for the Tribunate a second time 151 Riots 152 Death of Tiberius 152 132. Return of Scipio to Rome 152 He opposes the popular party 153 xviii CONTENTS. B.O. Page 129. Death of Scipio 153 126. Expulsion of the Allies from Rome 154 125. M. Fulvius Flaccus proposes to give the franchise to the Italians 154 Revolt and destruction of Fre- gellse 154 126. C. Gracchus goes to Sardinia as Quaestor 1 54 124. He returns to Rome 15T 128. lie is elected Tribune 157 His legislation 157 L Laws for improving the condition of the people.. 157 1. Extension of the Agrarian Law... . 157 2. State provision for the poor 157 3. Soldiers equipped at Lhe expense of the Republic 157 II. Laws to diminish the pow- er of the Senate 157 B.C. Page 1. Transference of the judicial power from the Senators to the Equites.... 157 2. Distribution of the Provinces before the election of the Consuls 158 122. C. Gracchus Tribune a second time 159 Proposes to confer the citizen- ship upon the Latins 15S Unpopularity of this proposal 153 The Tribune M. Livius Dru- sus outbids Gracchus 15S Foundation of a colony at Car- thago 150 Decline of the popularity of Gracchus 159 121. His murder 100 Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi 1GO CHAPTER XXII. JUGtJRTIIA AND HIS TIMES. B.C. 118-104 C. MAEIUS. . 334. Serves at the siege of Nu- mantia Attracts the notice of Scipio Africanus 110. Tribune of the Plebs 115. Praetor 140. Death of Masinissa Accession of Micipsa 134. Jugurtha serves at the siege of Xmnantia 118. Death of Micipsa Jugurtha assassinates Hiemp- sal War between Jugurtha and Adherbal 117. Roman commissioners divide Numidia between Jugurtha and Adherbal Fresh war between Jugurtha and Adherbal, Siege of Cirta 213. Death of Adherbal 111. The Romans declare war against Jugurtha Jugurtha bribes the Consul Calpurnins Bostia Indignation at Rome Jugurtha comes to Rome 111. He murders Massiva Renewal of the war 161 1G1 161 162 1G2 162 162 162 162 163 163 163 1GH 188 103 163 If,?, 103 104 164 KH 110. Incapacity of the Consul Sp. Postumius Albinus 164 Defeat of his brother Aulus. . 164 100. Bill of the Tribune C. Mamil- ius 164 Many Romans condemned 164 The Consul Q. Ca?cilius Metel- lus lands in Africa 164 Accompanied by Marius as his lieutenant 165 Metellus defeats Jugurtha 105 Ambitious views of Marius. . . 105 108. He quits Africa and arrives in Rome 166 Is elected Consul 106 Attacks the nobility 166 Campaign of Metellus as Pro- consul 166 The people give Marius com- mand of the Numidian War 166 107. First Consulship of Marius. . . 106 1 le arrives in Africa 166 He defeats Jugurtha and Boc- chus, king of Mauritania. . . 167 106. Bocchus surrenders Jugurtha to Sulla, the Quaestor of Ma- rius 167 Early history of Sulla 107 His character 167 104. Triumph of Marius 1 6S His second Consulship 163 CONTENTS. CHAPTER xxrir. THE CIMURI AND TEUTONES, JJ.G. 113-101. SECOND SEEVILE WAR IN SICILY, B.C. 103-101. B.O. Page Invasion of the Cimbri and Teutones ICO Their probable origin Kit) 113. Defeat of the Consul Cn. Pa- pirius Carbo 363 109. Defeat of the Consul M. Ju- nius Silanus 1G9 107. Defeat of the Consul L. Cas- sius Longinus 103 105. Defeat of the Consul Cn. Mal- lius Maximum and the Pro- consul Cn. Hervilius Cropio 1TO 104. Second Consulship of Marius 170 | The Cimbri invade Spain 1 T< 103. Third Consulship of Marius. . 170 : 102. Fourth Consulship of Marius 170 The Cimbri return from Spain 170 102. Marius takes up his pasition near Aries 170 ! u. c. Page The Cimbri enter Italy by the 1 'a s.-i of Tridentum 170 Great defeat of the Teutones by Marius at Aqua? Sextiae 171 101. Fifth Consulship of Marius. . 171 Great defeat of the Teutones at Vercellie by Marius and the Proconsul Catulus 171 Triumph of Marius and Ca- tulus 171 103-101. Second Servile War in Sicily 171 Tryphon king of the Slaves. . 172 Succeeded by Athenio a? king , 172 101. The Consul Aquillius puts n\ end to the war , 172 CHAPTER XXIV. INTERNAL HISTORY OF ROME, FROM THE DEFEAT OF TIIK CIMBI:I AND Tnu- TONES TO THE SOCIAL WAR. K.C. 100-91. 100. Sixth Consulship of Marius. . 173 His league with the dema- gogues Saturninus and Glaucia 173 Agrarian Law of Saturninus 174 Banishment of Metellus 174 Saturninus declared a public enemy 1 74 He u put to death 175 Marius visits the Kast 175 92. Condemnation of Rutilius Rufua 17E 91. Tribunate of M. Livius Dru- sus 175 His measures 176 Proposes to give the franchise to the Italian allies 170 His assassination 176 CHAPTER XXV. THE SOCIAL on MAUSIO WAR. n.c. 00-89. ITS ). The Allies take up arms The war breaks out at Asctl- lum in Picenum 178 Coifinium the nen- capital of the, Italian confederation.. 178 Q. Pompedius Silo, a M^ivinn, and ('. P.-ipins Mulilus, a Saiunitc, tin-Italian Consuls 17-> Defeat and death of the Roman Consul P. Kutilius Lupus.. 179 Exploits of Marius 179 The Lex Julia 179 83. Success of the Romans ISO The Lex Plautia Papiri;i ISO The franchise given to the Allies ... ISO All the Allies lay down their anus except the Samnite? and Lucanijsns ISO Ten new Triln s i,nned ISO CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXVL FIRST CIVIL WAR. u.c. SS-SG. B.C. Pa ire 88. Consulship of Sulla 181 Receives the command of the Mithridatic War 181 The Tribune P. Sulpicius Ru- fus 182 lie propones to distribute the Italians among the thirty- five Tribes 182 Sulla flies from Rome to Nola IS-! The people give Marine the command of the Mithrida- tic War.. 182 Sulla marches upon Rome. ... 1S2 Sulpicius put to death 1S3 u.c. Page M:triu^ flies from Rome 183 His adventure.- 183 Is seized sit Minturnse 183 Escapes to Africa 184 Sulla sails to the East 184 87. Riots at Rome 1 >5 The Consul Cinna invites the assistance of Marius 185 Marius and Cinna march upon Rome 1S5 They enter the city 1 85 Proscription of their enemies 1S5 86. Seventh Consulship of Mariu- His death Is5 CHAPTER XXVII. FIRST MITIIEIDATIC Kingdom of Pontus ISO Its history ISC i 120. Accession of Mithridates VI. 186 i His early life 180 His attainments IS" His conquests 1ST His disputes with the Ro- mans 1ST 88. He invades Cappadocia and Bithynia 187 He invades the Roman prov- ince of Asia 188 Massaoe of Romans and Ital- ians 188 WAR. i;.c. 8S-S4. ST. The Grecian states declare in favor of Mithridutes 188 Sulla lands in Kpirus 188 lie lays siege to Athens and the Piranis 188 SO. Takes these cities 188 Defeats Archelaus, the general of Mithridates, at Chscronea 188 85. Again defeats Archeluus at Orchomenus 189 84. Peace with Mithridates 183 Sulla attacks Fimbria, -the Marian general, in Asia.. . . 180 83. He returns to Italy 189 CHAPTER XXVIII. SECOND CIVIL WAB SULLA'S DICTATORSHIP, LEGISLATION, AND DEATH. 11. c. 83-78. 84 Consulshipof Cinna and Carbo 190 Death of Cinna 190 83. Consulship of Scipio and Nor- banus 190 Preparations for war 191 The Italians support the Ma- rian party 191 Sulla marches from Brundu- sium to Campania 191 Defeats the Consul Norbauus I'.'l Pompey, Metellua Pius, Cras- sus-, and others, join Sulla. . 192 S'J. Consulship of Papirus Carbo and the younger Marius . . . 19b Defeat of Marius, who takes refuge in Pra-m ste 192 Murder of Senators in Rome by order of Marius 192 Great battle before the Colline ir'h' at Rome between Sulla and the Samnites 192 Defeat of the Samnites 193 Surrender of Prseneste 193 Death of Marius 198 CONTENTS. xxi B.C. Page End of the war .............. 193 Sulla master of Rome ........ 11*3 1 'i < i.-cription ................ 193 Dreadful scones ............. 194 81. Sulla dictator ............... 194 lie celebrates his triumph over M ithridates .......... 104 His reforms in the constitution 194 His military colonies ........ 194 19. He resign < the Dictatorship. . 195 ] le retires to I'titeoli ........ 195 7& His death ................... 15 His funeral ................. 190 IDG L Laws relating to the Con- stitution .............. 19G Deprive the Comitia Tributa (if theirleg- islative andj udicial powers ............ Increase the power of the Senate ........ 1.17 Hi. IV. Page Increase the number of the Quaestors and Praetors 197 Deprive the Tribunes of all real power. . . 1ST Laws relating to tkeEcclc- glcuttcalCorporatitnw. . 107 Repeal of the Lex Do- mitia 19T Increase of the num- ber of Pontiffs and Augurs 197 Laics relating to the A d- ministration of Justice 197 Quaestiones l^erpetna; 197 Transference of the Judicia fi-om the Equitea to the Sen- ators 198 Laics relating to the im- provement of Public Morals 198 CHAPTER XXIX. FROM THE DEATH OF SULLA. TO THE CONSULSHIP OF POMPEY AND CRABSUS. u.c. 78-70. 73. Consulship of Lspidus and Catulus 199 Lepidus attempts to repeal the laws of Sulla 199 Is opposed by Catulus 199 Id defeated at the Mulvian Bridge 199 Retires to Sardinia 200 His death 200 83. Sertorius in Spain 200 19. Carries on war against Me- tellus 200 CN. I'o.MPEirs MAGNUS 200 His birth 200 89. Fights against the Italians under his father 200 83. Joins Sulla 200 83. Is sent into Sicily and Africa 200 SO. Enters Home in triumph. . . 201 T8. Supports the aristocracy against Lepidus 201 16. Is sent into Spain to assist Metelliu 201 72. Assassination of Sertorius by Perperna 202 71. Pompey finishes the war in Spain 202 73. War of the Gladiators: Spar- tacus 202 72. Spartacus defeats both Con- suls 202 71. Crassus appointed to the com- mand of the war against the Gladiators. 202 Defeats and slays Spartacus 203 Pompey cuts to pieces a body of Gladiators 203 70. Consulship of Pompey and Crassus 203 Pompey restores the Tribun:- tian power. 203 Law of L. Aurelius Cotta, transferring the Judicia to the Senators, Equites, and Tribuni yErarii 204 CHAPTER XXX. THIRD OB GKEAT MITIIRIDATIC WAR. B.O. 74-61. Preparations of M ithridates. . 206 205 7i. THIRD MITURIDATIO WAR 205 Mithridates defeats the Con- sul Cotta 200 205 He lays siege to Cyzicus, .... 206 83. SECOND MITIIIUPATIC WAR Mnrena invades Pontus B2 Mithridates defeats Murena End of the Second Mithridatic War xxii CONTENTS. B.C. Pairf- 73. The siege is raised by Lucullan L'o7 Lucullns defeats Mithridates 207 71. Mithridates takes refuge in Armenia 207 70. Lucullus settles the affairs of Asia 207 69. lie invades Armenia and de- feats Tigranes 208 63. Lucullus defeats Tigranes and Mithridates, and lays siege toXisibis 208 67, Mithridates returns to PontOft, and defeats the generals of Liicullus 208 Mutiny in the army of Lucul- lus 208 The command of the Mithri- datic War given to Glabrio 200 WAK WITH THE PIRATES Account of the Pirate- 1 200 Command of the war given by the Gabinian Law to Pompey 210 Success of Pompey 210 lie finishes the war 210 66. THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAK CONTINUED 210 iJ.c. Page Command of the Mithridatic War given by the Manilian Law to Pompey 210 It is opposed by the aristocracy 211 It is supported by Cicero 211 Pompey defeats Mithridates . . 211 Mithridates retires into the Cimmerian Bosporus 211 Pompey invades Armenia 212 Submission of Tigranes 212 C5. Pompey pursues Mithridates 212 lie advances as far as the River Phasis 212 He returns to Pontus, which he reduces to the form of a Roman province 212 G4. lie marches into Syria, which he makes a Roman province 212 63. lie subdues Fhcenicia and Pal- estine 212 lie takes Jerusalem 212 Preparations of Mithridates. . 213 Conspiracy against him 213 His death 213 Pompey settles the affairs of Asia 213 62. He returns to Italy 213 CHAPTER XXXI. INTERNAL HISTORY. FROM THE CONSULSHIP OK POMPEY AND CEASSUS TO THE RETURN OF POMPEY FKOM THE EAST: THE CONSPIRACY OK CATILINE. B.O, G9-G1. C. JULIUS C.E3AK 100. His birth 214 His early history. 214 Proscribed by Sulla 215 81. He serves in Asia 215 77. Accuses Dolabella 2 1 5 Taken by the Pirates 215 75. Studies in Rhodes '_",;> OS. Quaestor 215 G5. Curule JEdile 210 Restores the statues of Ma- rina 21G M. TULLIUS CIC:;RO 106. His birth 210 S3. Serves in the Social War. . 210 81. His speech for I'. Quintius 216 80. His speech for Sex. Roscius of Ameria 210 79. He goes to Athens 216 78. He studies in Rome 216 77. He returns to Rome 216 TO. Quaxtor in Sicily 217 70. He accuses Verres 217 C. JFAilc 217 GO. Praetor 217 He speaks on behalf of the Manilian law 217 G5. First conspiracy of Catiline. . 217 History of Catiline 218 G3. Consulship of Cicero 219 Second conspiracy of Catiline 219 Catiline quits Rome 220 Cicero seizes the conspirators 220 They are put to death 221 62. Defeat and death of Catiline 22f Popularity of Cicero 221 Remarks upon the punishment of the conspirators 221 CHAPTER XXXII. FROM POMPEY'S RETURN- FROM THE EAST TO CICERO'S BANISHMENT AND RE- CALL. i;.o. 0-2-57. C, Pompey arrives in Italy 223 6 1 . Triumph of Pompey 223 State of parties in Rome 22 1 GO. The. Senate refuses to sanction I'umpey's measures in Asia 224 (}>. Prsetorehip of ( 'trsar '.li ! CONTENTS. xxiii n.r, Page in. Propraetor in Spain 224 GO. 1 lis victories in Spain 224 lie returns to Home 225 FIRST TUIU-MVIKATE 225 60. Consulship of Csesar 225 Agrarian Law for the division of the Campanian land 225 Ratification of Pompey's acts in Asia 2.5 Marriage of Julia, Cscsar's daughter, with Pompcy 225 ( 'rcsar gains over the Kquites. . 225 Vatinian Law, granting to Ca> v.ur the provinces of Cisalpine B.C. Page Gaul and Illyricura for five years 226 Transalpine Gaul added 226 62. Clodius profanes the rites of theBonaDea 226 61. His trial and acquittal 22T His enmity against Cicero 227 58. Tribune of the Plebs 22T He accuses Cicero 227 Banishment of Cicero 227 57. Riots at Rome between Clo- dins and Milo 227 Return of Cicero from banish- ment 228 CHAPTER XXXIIL CESAR'S CAMPAIGNS IN GAUL. B.C. 58-51. 6S. First Campaign 220 1 Ie defeats the 1 lelvctii 221) He defeats Ariovistus and the Germans ?30 57. Second Cnmpntrjn 230 The IMgic War 230 ( ; reat victory over the Nervii 230 50. Third Campaimi 230 I Ic defeats the Veneti 231 He defeats the Morini and Menapii 231 55. Fourth Campaign 231 Csesnr crosses the Rhine 231 Ilia first invasion of Britain 231 64. Fifth Cavipm'fni 232 i I is second invasion of Britain 232 Revolt of the Eburones 232 They destroy the detachment of T. Titurius Sabinus and L. Aurunculeius Cotta 232 They attack the camp of Q. Cicero 232 53. Sixth Campaign 232 Ca?sar puts down the revolt in Gaul 233 He crosses the Rhine a sec- ond time 233 52. Seventh Campaign 233 Revolt of all Gaul 233 Headed by Vercingetorix. . . 233 C;esar takes Alesia and Ver- cingetorix 234 51. Eighth Campaign 234 Pacification of Gaul 234 CHAPTER XXXIV. INTERNAL HISTORY FROM THE RETURN OP CIOERO FROM BANISHMENT TO TIIK COMMENCEMENT OF THE CIVIL WAR: KXPEIHTION AND DEATH OF CRASSUS. j;.c. 57-50. r>7. Cicero supports the Triumvirs L'C5 5<>. Pompey and Crassus meet CtB- s:i r at Luca 233 Fresh arrangements for the continuance of their power. . 23G 5. Second Consulship of Pompey and Cra,ssus 236 The Trebonian Law, giving the two Spa ins to Pompey and Syria to Crassu<, and pro- longing Pomp:-y\s govern- ment- for five years more 230 Dedication of 1'ompey's theatre 2-'(' 54. Crassi!- cro-s, s the Euphrates '-'>' He winter.-; in Syria 1>:,7 63. He again crosses the Euphrates 237 Is defeated and slain near Carrlitr f.,7 54. Death of Julia 287 . r -:i. Ifiots in Rome 238 52. Murder of Clodius liy Milo.. . . 238 Pompey sole Consul 238 Trial and condcmna tion of Milo 238 51. Rupture between Caesar and I'tmipcy 239 Pompey joins the aristocratical party 289 40. Proposition that Caesar should lay down his command 240 The Senate invest the Consuls with dictatorial power 240 The Tribunes Antony and Cas- sius fly to Ca'sar's camp. . . . 240 Commencement of the Civil War... 240 CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXXV. THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND CIVIL WAR TO CAESAR'S DEATH. B.C. 40-44 U.C. Page 49. Caesar at Ravenna 24 1 He crosses the Rubicon 241 Hi.- triumphal progreaa through Italy 241 Pompey and his party fly from Rome to Brundiisium 242 They are pursued ly Csesar. . . 242 Tliey embark for Greece 242 Caesar goes to Home 242 He sets out for Spain 2i2 lie conquers L. Africanus and M. Petreius, 1'ompey's lieu- tenants in Spain 243 Is appointed Dictator, which of- fice he holds only eleven days 243 He takes Massilia 243 48. He sails from Brundusium to Greece 243 He besieges Pompey at Dyr- rhachium 244 Is compelled to retire 244 Battle of 1'harsalia, and defeat of Pompey 244 Pompey flies, to Kgypt 2-!5 Hi* death 245 Csesar is appointed Dictator a second time 2-45 The Alexandrine War 24! They fly from Rome :!>'.> OcTAVirs, Ciesar's nephew, at Illyrinun 53 1? madeCKflar'a heir He proceeds to Rome -."> -t His opposition to Antony 154 He courts the Senate *.. r > 1- Antony proceeds to Cisalpine Gaul,andlay.a siege to Mutina 2. r >4 43. Cicero's second Philippic 254 Octavian and the Consuls llir- tius and 1'ansa march against Antony 255 They attnck Antony '-55 Death of llirtius and Pansa. . . 255 Antony is defeated, and crosses the Alp.? 255 Oc-tavian marches to Rome 255 Is declared Consul 255 Breaks with the Senate, and outlaws the murderers of Ca'sar > M arc-lies against Antony and Lepidus.. 55 Is reconciled with them 256 SECOND Ti:iti.MVin.\TE 256 The Triumvirs enter Rome.. . . 256 ] )re:i dfnl Scenes '-. r >C> Death of Cicero 257 Sextus Pompey master of Sicily and the Mediterranean 57 He defeats the fleet of the Tri- umvirs 57 CONTENTS. Brutus obtains possession of Macedonia 288 Cassius, of Syria 258 Tlicir proceeding.- in the Hast '.5s They plunder Asia Minor 253 i;.c. Page 42. They return to Europe to meet the Triumvirs 25S Battle of Philippi 261 Death of Brutus and Cassius 2G1 CHAPTER XXXVII. FROM THE BATTLE OK Pnii.irri TO THE BATTLE OP ACTITTM. K.C. 41-30. 41. Antony remains in the East 262 He meeta Cleopatra at Tarsus 2G2 Jle accompanies her to Alex- ' andria 2CP, Octavian returns to Rome. . . . 03 Confusion in Italy 2f>3 Confiscation of lands 203 Fulvia, the wife of Antony, and L. Antonius, his broth- er, rise against Antony 263 They take refuge in Porusia '203 40. Capture of Perusia, and end of the war 203 The Parthians invade Syria. . 204 Antony joins Sextus Pompoy and lays siege to Brundu- sium '. 204 Reconciliation between An- tony and Octavian 204 Fresh division of the Roman world 204 Antony marries Octavia 264 3'.). Peace with Sextus Pompey at Mi~enum 204 Vcntidius, the Legate of An- tony, defeats the Parthians 265 38. 1 Te again defeats the Parthians 2>5 Death of Pacorus 205 War with Sextus Pompey 205 lie destroys the fleet of Octa- vian.... 265 37. Antony comes toTarcntum. . 205 Triumvirate renWed for an- other period of five years. . 266 30. Renewal of the war with Sex- tus Pompey 263 His defeat 266 He flies to Asia 20G Lepidus deprived of his Tri- umvirate 266 85. Death of Pompey 266 30. Antony joins Cleopatra 267 His infatuation 267 He invades 1'urthia 207 His disastrous retreat 207 34. lie invades Armenia 207 Octavian subdues the Dalma- tians 267 His prudent conduct 207 33. Rupture between Octavian and Antony 267 S2. War against Cleopatra. ..... 268 31. Battle of Actium 268 Defeat of Antony 268 He flies to Alexandria 208 30. Dcatli of Antony and Cleopatra 269 Kgypt made a Roman province 269 End of the Republic 269 29. Triumph of Octavian 269 27. He receives the title of Au- ijiintiw 270 Ilispolicy 270 CHAPTER XXXVIII. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ROMAN LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF AUGUSTUS. 254-184. T. Macchia Plautus 273 I'.if. 15.). P. Terentius Afer 274 160. Q. Cfecilius 274 100. L. Afranius 274 2'20-lSO. M. Pacuvius 275 170-90. L. Accius '275 Comcedice Togatce 274 ComcedicK Palliatce 274 POETRY Saturnian Metre 272 Commencement of Roman Literature 272 The Drama 240. M. I.ivins Andronicus.... '27'J 235. Cn. Nan-ius 27:: 239-169. Q. Knnina 273 CONTENTS. u.c. Comcedice Pra'textatce Atellcince Fabulit' Page 275 275 275 59. Dec Labcrius 275 r Syrus 275 Fescennine Songs 27G Satire "70 148-103 C Lucilius 27G 95-61. T. Lucretius Carus 8T-47. Valerius Catullus 70-19. P. Virgiliua Maro 27G 27(5 277 G5-S. Q. Horatius Flaccus 30. Albius Tilmllus. 278 280 Aurcliua Propertitis 280 li.C. A.I). 43-18. P. Ovidius Naso Pag 281 PROSE WRITERS The Annalist* 282 210. Q. Fnbius Pic-tor 282 L. Cinema Alimentus 282 234-140. M. Porcius ( ,'ato 282 1 06-43. M. Tullius Cicero 282 117-28. M. Terentius Varro 283 100-4 1. C. Julius ( 'a'siir 283 86-34. C. Sallustius Crispus. ... 284 Cornelius Nepos 284 U.O. A.T>. 53-17. Titus Livius. . . .284 CHAPTER XXXIX. THE REIGN OF AUGUSTUS C^SAR. u.c 31-.\.i). 14. Conduct of Augustus 286 His friends 286 Police of Rome 286 Condition of the empire 287 Italy, Gaul, and Spain 287 Africa 283 Egypt and Greece 28S Boundaries of the empire 289 The Praetorian guard i'90 Army and navy 290 Augustus in Spain .............. 291 His family ...................... 291 His wife, Li via .................. 292 Marcellus, Julia, Tiberius ........ 292 Caius and Lucius Caesar ......... 293 Birth of the Savior .............. 293 Death of Augustus .............. 294 His character and personal appear- ance .......................... '-".'-I CHAPTER XL. FROM THE ACCESSION OF TIBERIUS, A.D. 14-37, TO DOMITIAN, A.n. 90. Accession of Tiberius 295 Germanicus 296 His death 296 The Lex Mnjestas 297 The Delatores 297 Sejant 297 Death of Sojunus 298 Death of Tiberius 299 * Caligula 2!>9 ^Claudius 300 His conduct 300 The Kmperor Nero 001 His crimes 301 Vitclliiis , 302 Yf.-pasi;m 30 J Fall of Jerusalem 303 Kei-n of Titus JUt-t The Colosseum :;n| Reign of Domitian 305 lie persecutes the (Jhristiaus 305 CHAPTER XL I. PROSPERITY OF THE EMPIRE, A.I>. 96. COMMOTM:!?, A.IX 180. REIQN OF M. COOCEIUS NERVA, A.T>. '.' 306 sjofi * The Emperor Nerva Prosperity of the empire Trajan His wise administration The Dacian war Conquests in the. I'.;is-t :;d7 : :i K Trajan's public works ............ :;<>'.! llpiirn of 1 ladrian ................ 3(>'. Hist ravels.... . 310 His death 312 Antoninus Pius.. . .313 His excellent character .M.-irciis Aurelius His conduct He defeats the P>.ii-b;;ri;ins. . The depraved Commodus. .. His vicea Is assassinated sia 314- r,ir 316 316 316 CONTENTS. xxvii CHAPTER XLII. FROM PERTINAX TO DIOCLETIAN. A.D. 192-284. Page Pertinax made emperor 3 Is assassinated 319 Didius Julianus 319 ^eve.rus 320 I ! is severe rule 320 :;ct;i and Caracalla 321 Papinian executed 321 Cruelties of Caracalla 322 Elagabalus 322 Page Alexander Severus 322 Maximin 3?3 The Goths invade the empire 824 Valerian 3^5 Thirty tyrants 325 Zenobia 325 Aurelian 325 The Emperor Tacitus 326 Frugal habits of Cams 326 CHAPTER XLIII. FROM DIOCLETIAN, A.D. 284, TO CONSTANTINE'S DEATH, A.I>. 337. Constantinople 332 Its magnificence 333 The prefectures 334 ( 'hristianity the national religion 334 Taxes 334 Family of Constantino 335 He is baptized and dies 335 Diocletian 32T His colleagues 328 Persecution of the Christians 323 Abdication of Diocletian "329 ( 'nnstantine the Great 330 His administration 331 The Council of Nice 332 CHAPTER XLIV. FROM THE DEATH OF CONSTANTINE, A.T>. 337, TO ROMULUS AUGUSTULUS, A.D. 416. The three sons of Constantine .... 830 Constantius jealous of Julian 337 J ulian becomes emperor. 337 Attempts to restore Paganism 337 Valcntinian 338 The Huns appear in Europe 338 The Goths cross the Danube 338 Theodosius the Great 339 Stilicho 839 Alaric enters Italy 340 Luxury of the Romans 340 Sack of Rome 341 Arcadius and Honoring 341 The Vandals .' 342 The Huns 342 Romulus Augustulus 343 Extinction of the Empire of the West... . 343 CHAPTER XLV. ROMAN LITERATURE UNDER THE EMPIRE. A.D. 14-470. Decline of letters 344 Epic poetry Lucan 344 Silius Italicns 344 Claudian 345 1 'ersius, Juvenal 345 . 346 Martial. History VeUeiaa Patercnlua 34(5 Valerius Maximus 340 Tacitus 347 Quintus Curtius 347 Rhetoric Seneca the elder. 348 Qnintilian 348 Appuleius 349 PhilosophySeneca 349 The elder Pliny 349 Hi* nephew 350 Grammarians Macrobius 350 Marcellinus 350 Legal writers Gaius 350 Science and art. 351 LIST OF ILLUSTKATIONS. The Roman Forum Puteal on a Coin of the Scribonia Gens Map of Italy. Page Temple of Janus v Julius Ca>sar Virgil Tivoli, the ancient Tibur Crate of Arpinum The Alban Hills Plan of the City of Romulus S.ilii carrying the Aucilia Arch of Volafr-rr.-i 1 . . . . FRONTISPIECS. , TITLE-PAGE. vii xxx 1 6 1 11 13 IB 16 IT Pons Sublicius, restored by Canina Cloaca Maxima JVIap of Rome, showing the Servian Wall and the Seven Hills 21 Coin representing the children of Brutus led to death by Lictors. . 28 The Campagna of Rome 20 The Environs of Rome G3 Tarpeian Rock 30 View in the neighborhood of Veii 41 Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus re- stored 45 Ruins at Capua 52 Coin of Pyrrhus GO Tonple of Vesta 07 Mount Krcta in Sicily 08 Columna Rostra ta 71 Plan of Mount Krcta Coin of Carthage Coin of 1 Hero Lake Trasimenus Map of the coasts of the Mediter- ranean, illustrating the history of the Pmric Wars Route of Hannibal (Plain of Cannse Hannibal 86 80 1)1 99 IOC 106 118 116 116 125 Scipio Africanus 120 The Capitoline Wolf. Coin of Antiochus the Great Roman Soldiers Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus Lictors A Roman general addressing the soldier? Page Island in the Tiber, with the Fa- brician and Cestian Bridges 134 Plan of Carthage 141 Personification of the River Tiber 143 Stairs of the modern Capitol 14S The Forum in its present state... . 155 Temple of Saturn at Rome 101) A Roman Trophy 161 C;iius Maritw 109 Tomb of Metella Caacilia 173 Beneventum in Samnium 177 Coin of the Eight Italian Nations taking the Oath of Federation. . 178 Terracina 181 M-nint Argfeus in Cappadocia. . . . 186 Coin of Nicomedes III., king of Bithynia 189 Brundusium 190 Coin of Sulla 198 Cn. Pompeius Magnus 199 Temple of Pudicitia Patricia nt Rome 204 Coin of Mithridates 205 Coin of Tigranes 207 Cicero 214 Coin of Pompey 222 Julius C^sar 223 Temple of I lercules at Rome 228 Temple of Nemausus (A7?ne.s), now called the Maison Carree 229 Ruins on the Esquiline 2r,5 Marcus Brutus 241 Coin of Julius Crosar 250 Statue of a Roman, representing the Toga 251 M. Antonius 252 Philippi 259 Coin of Antony and Cleopatra. . . , 201 M. A-rippa 262 Plan of Actium 208 Map of the Provinces of the Ro. man Empire 271 Horace 272 Majcenas 285 Aureus of Augustus Caesar. 288 XXX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Page Gold Coin of Agrippa 2:>'2 Tlie Carpcutum or Chariot 293 Medal of Augustus 294 Medal of Nero 295 lioman Galley 299 Copper Coin of Antoninus Pius . . 306 Trajan's Pillar 30S Hadrian's Mausoleum restored. . . 311 lleverse of a Brass Coin of Anton: nua Piua 313 Commodus 317 Pertinax 318 Septimiua Severua 319 Page Caracalla 321 Alexander Sevcrtis 323 Court-yard of Diocletian's Palace at Spolatro 327 Constantino and Fau.'.'> before the Christian era. 10 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. II. On the line of the Pomoerium Romulus began to raise a wall. One day Remus leapt over it in scorn ; whereupon Romulus slew him, exclaiming, " So die whosoever hereafter shall leap over mv Walls." Romulus now found his people too few in numbers. Ac- cordingly, he set apart on the Capitoline Hill an asylum, or a sanc- tuary, in which homicides and runaway slaves might take refuge. The city thus became filled with men, but they wanted women, and the inhabitants of the neighboring cities refused to give their daughters to such an outcast race. Romulus accordingly resolved to obtain by force what he could not obtain by treaty. He pro- claimed that games wore to be celebrated in honor of the god Census, and invited his neighbors, the Latins and Sabincs, to the festival. Suspecting no treachery, they came in numbers with their wives and children, but the Roman youths rushed upon their guests and carried off the virgins. The parents returned home and prepared for vengeance. The inhabitants of three of the Latin towns, Cesnina, Antemnse, and Crustumerium, took up arms one after the other, but were defeated by the Romans. Romulus slew with his own hand Acron, king of Casnina, and dedicated his arms and armor, as spolla ojriina, to Jupiter. These were offered when the commander of one army slew with his own hand the commander of another, and were only gained twice afterward in Roman history. At last Titus Tatius, the king of Cures, the most powerful of the Sabine states, marched against Rome. His forces were so great that Romulus, unable to resist him in the field, was obliged to retire into the city. Besides the city on the 1'ahmne, Romulus had also fortified the top of the Capitoline Hill, which he intrusted to the care of Tarpeius. But his daughter Tarpeia, dazzled by the golden bracelets of the Sabines, promised to betray the hill to them "if they would give her what they wore on their left arms." Her offer was accepted. In the night-time she open- ed a gate and let in the enemy, but when she claimed her reward they threw upon her the shields "which they wore on their left arms," and thus crushed her to death. One of the heights of the Capitoline Hill preserved her name, and it was from the Tarpoian Rock that traitors Avere afterward hurled down. On the next day ihe Romans endeavored to recover the hill. A long and desper- ate battle was fought in the valley between the Palatine and the Capitoline. At one time the Romans were driven before the ene- my, when Romulus vowed a temple to Jupiter Stator, the Stayer of Flight, whereupon hi* men took courage and returned again to the combat. At length the Sabine women, who were the cause of the war, rushed in between them, and prayed their husbands and fathers to Ve reconciled. Their | ravers were heard ; the two B.C. 753-71 G. REIGN OF ROMULUS. 11 people not only made peace, but agreed to form only one nation. The Romans dwelt on the Palatine under their king Romulus, the Sabines on the Capitolinc under their king Titus Tatius.* The two kings and their senates met for deliberation in the valley be- tween the two hills, which was hence called Comitiuni, or the place of meeting, and which afterward became the Roman Forum. But this union did not last long. Titus Ta- tius was slam at La- vinium by some Lat- ins to whom he had refused satisfaction for outrages commit- ted by his kinsmen. Henceforward Rom- ulus ruled alone over both Romans and Sa- bines. He reigned, in all, thirty-seven, years. One day, as he was reviewing his people in the Cam- pus Martius, near the Goat's Pool, the sun was suddenly eclipsed, and a dread- ful storm dispersed the people. When daylight returned Romulus had disap- peared, for his father Mars had earned him up to heaven in a fiery chariot. Short- ly afterward he ap- peared in more than mortal beauty to the senator Proculus Sa- binus, and bade him tell the Romans to worship him under the name of the god Qui- rinus. As Romulus was regarded as the founder of Rome, its most an- * The Sabines were called Quiritcs, and this name was afterward applied to the TJoman people in their civil capacity. Plan of the City of Romulus. 12 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. II. cient political institutions and the organisation of the people were ascribed to him by the popular belief. (i.) The Roman people consisted only of Patricians and their Clients. The Patricians formed the Populus Romanus, or sover- eign people. They alone had political rights ; the Clients were entirely dependent upon them. A Patrician had a certain number of Clients attached to him personally. To these he acted as a J^t/ronu.s or Patron. He was bound to protect the interests of the Client both in public and private, while the Client had to render many services to his patron. (ii.) The Patricians were divided by Romulus into three Tribes; the Ramnes, or Romans of Romulus ; the Tities, or Sabincs of Ti- tus Tatius ; and the Luceres, or Etruscans of Cailes, a Lucumo or Etruscan noble, who assisted Romulus in the war against the Sa- bines. Each tribe was divided into 10 curia?, and each curias into 10 gentes. The 30 curias formed the Comitia Curiata, a sovereign assembly of the Patricians. This assembly elected the king, made the laws, and decided in all cases affecting the life of a citizen. To assist him in the government Romulus selected a number of aged men, forming a Senate, or Council of Elders, who were called Patres, or Senators. It consisted at first of 100 members, which number was increased to 200 when the Sabines were incorporated in the state. The 20 curias of the Ramnes and Tities each sent 10 members to the senate, but the Luceres were not yet repre- sented. (ii.) Each of tha three tribes was bound to furnish 1000 men for the infantry and 100 men for the cavalry. Thus 3000 foot-sol- diers and 300 horse-soldiers formed the original army of the Ro- man state, and were called a Ley ion. 2. REIGN OF NUMA POMPILIUS, B.C.' 710-073. On the death of Romulus, the Senate, at first, would not allow the election of a new king. The Senators enjoyed the royal power in rotation as Intcr-rcges, or between-kings. In this way a year passed. But the people at length insisted that a king should be chosen, and the Senate were obliged to give way. The choice fell upon the wise and pious Numa Pompilius, a native of the Sabine Cures who had married the daughter of Tatius. The forty-three years ot'Numa's reign glided away in quiet happiness without any war or any ca- lamity. As Romulus was the founder of the political institutions of Rome, so Numa was the author of the religious institutions. In- structed by the nymph Egeria, whom he met in the sacred grove of Aricia, he instituted the Pontiffs, four in number, with a Ponti- fex Maximus at their head, who had the general superintendence B.C.716-G41. REIGNS OT NUMA AND T. HOSTJLIUS. 13 Salii carrying the Anciiin. of religion ; the Augurs, also four in number, who consulted the will of the gods on all occasions, both private and public ; three Flamens, each of whom attended to the worship of separate deities Jupiter,* Mars, and Qui- rinus ; four Vestal Virgins, who kept alive the sacred fire of Vesta brought from Alba Longa ; and twelve Salii, or priests of Mars, who had the care of the sacred shields. t Numa re- formed the calendar, en- couraged agriculture, and marked out the bounda- ries of property, which he placed Tinder the care of the god Terminus. He also built the temple of Janus, a god represented with two heads looking dif- ferent ways. The gates of this temple were to be open during war and closed in time of peace. 3. REIGN OF TULLCS HOSTILIUS, B.C. 673-641. Upon the death of Numa an interregnum again followed ; but soon afterward Tul- lus Hostilius, a Roman, was elected king. His reign was as war- like as that of Numa had been peaceful. The most memorable event in it is the destruction of Alba Longa. A quarrel having arisen between the two cities, and their armies having been drawn up in array against each other, the princes determined to avert the battle by a combat of champions chosen from each army. There svcrc in the Roman army three brothers, born at the same birth, named Horatii ; and in the Alban army, in like manner, three brothers, born at the same birth, and called Curiatii. The two sets of brothers were chosen as champions, and it was agreed that the people to whom the conquerors belonged should rule the other. Two of the Horatii were slain, but the three Curiatii were wounded, and the surviving Horatius, who was unhurt, had recourse to strata- gem. He was unable to contend with the Curiatii united, but was more than a match for each of them separately. Taking to flight, he was followed by his tbree opponents at unequal distances. Sud- * The Flamcn of Jupiter was called Flamen Diali?. t These shields were called A ncihn. One of these shields is said to have fall- en from heaven ; and Xuina ordered eleven others to be made exactly like it, that it might not be known and stolen. H HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. If. flenly turning round, lie slew, first one, then the second, and final- ly the third. The Romans were declared the conquerors, and the Albans their subjects. But a tragical event followed. As Hora- tius was entering Rome, bearing his threefold spoils, his sister met him, and recognized on his shoulders the cloak of one of the Curi- atii, her betrothed lover. She burst into such passionate grief that the anger of her brother was kindled, and, stabbing her with his sword, he exclaimed, " So perish every Roman woman who bewails a foe." For this murder he was condemned by the two judges of blood to be hanged upon the fatal tree, but he appealed to the peo- ple, and they gave him his life. Shortly afterward Tullus Hostilius made war against the Etrus- cans of Fideme and Veil. The Albans, under their dictator Met- tius Fuffetius, followed him to the war as the subjects of Rome. In the battle 'against the Etruscans, the Alban dictator, faithless and insolent, withdrew to the hills, but when the Etruscans were defeated he descended to the plain, and congratulated the Roman king. Tullus pretended to bo deceived. On the following day he summoned the two armies to receive their praises and rewards. The Albans came without arms, and were surrounded by the Ro- man troops. They then heard their sentence. Their dictator was to be torn in pieces by horses driven opposite ways; their city was to be razed to the ground; and they themselves, with their wives and children, transported to Rome. Tullus assigned to them the Cielian Hill for their habitation. Some of the noble families of Alba were enrolled among the Roman patricians, but the great mass of the Alban people were not admitted to the priv- ileges of the ruling class. They were the origin of the Roman .P/ebs, who were thus quite distinct from the Patricians and their Clients. The Patricians still formed exclusively the Populus, or Roman people, properly so called. The Plcbs were a subject- class without any share in the government. After carrying on several other wars Tullus fell sick, and sought to win the favor of the gods, as Numa had done, by prayers and divination. But Jupiter was angry with him, and smote him and his whole house with fire from heaven. Thus perished Tullus, after a reign of thirty-two years. 4. REIGN OF Axcus MARCIUS, B.C. G40-61G. Ancus Marcius, the successor of Tullus Hostilius, was a Sabine, being the son of Numa's daughter. He sought to tread in the footsteps of his grandfather by reviving the religious ceremonies which had fallen into neglect ; but a war with the Latins called him from the pur- suits of peace. He conquered several of the Latin cities, and rc- inoVed many of the inhabitants to Rome, where he assigned them B.C. 640-616. REIGN OF ANGUS MARCIUS. ir, the Aventine for their habitation. Thus the number of the Ple- beians was greatly enlarged. Ancus instituted the Fetiales, whose duty it was to demand satisfaction from a foreign state when any dispute arose, to determine the circumstances under which hostili- ties might be commenced, and to perform the proper religious rites on the declaration of war. He also founded a colony at Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber, built a fortress on the Janiculum as a pro- tection against the Etruscans, and united it with the city by a bridge across the Tiber, called the Pons Sublicius, because it was made of wooden piles, and erected a prison to restrain offenders. He died after a reign of twenty-four years. Arch of Volaterrse. Fons Sublicius, restored by Cauimi. CHAPTER III. THE LAST THREE KINGS OF ROME, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OP THE REPUBLIC DOWN TO THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS. B.C. C1G-498. 5. EEIGN OF Lucius TARQUINIUS PRISCUS, or the ELDER TAI:- QUIN, B.C. (51G-57S. The fifth king of Rome was an Etruscan by birth, but a Greek by desceiit. His father Demaratus was a wealthy citizen of Corinth, who settled in the Etruscan city of Tarquinii, where he married an Etruscan wife. Their son married Tanaquil, who belonged to one of the noblest families in Tarquinii. and him- self became a Lucumo or a noble in the state. But he aspired to still higher honors ; and, urged on by his wife, who was an ambi- tious woman, he resolved to try his fortune at Rome. According, ly, lie set out for this city, accompanied by a large train of follow- ers. When he had reached the Janiculum an eagle seized his cap, and, after carrying it away to a great height, placed it again upon his head. Tanaquil, who was skilled in the Etruscan science of augury, bade her husband hope for the highest honors. Her pre- dictions were soon verified. He took the name of Lucius Tar- quinius Prlscus, and gained the favor both of Ancus Marcius and the people. Ancus appointed the stranger guardian of his chil- dren ; and, when he died, the senate and the people unanimously elected Tarquin to the vacant throne. The reign of Tarquin was distinguished by great exploits in war and by great works in peace. He defeated the Sabines, and took their town Collatia, which he placed under his nephew Egerius, who was thence called Collatinus. He also captured many of the Latin towns, and became the ruler of all Latium; but the import- ant works which he executed in peace have rendered his name still more famous. The great cloaca:, or sewers, by which he drained B.C. G1G-578. REIGN OF LUCIUS T. PRISCUS. 17 the lower parts of the city, still remain, after so many ages, with not a stone displaced. He laid oat the Circus Maxim us, and insti- tuted the great or Roman games performed in the circus. He also made some changes in. the constitution of the state. lie added to Cloacn Maxima. the Senate 100 new members, taken from the Luccrcs, the third tribe, and called patres minorutn (jentiuin, to distinguish them from the old Senators, who were now termed /nitres inajontm (jentunn. To the three centuries of equites established by Romulus he wished to add three new centuries, and to call them after himself and two of his friends. But his plan was opposed by the augur Attus Na- vius, who said that the gods forbade it. The tale runs that the king, to test the augur, asked him to divine whether what he was thinking of could be dona. After consulting the heavens, the au- gur replied that it could ; whereupon the king said, " I was think- ing that thou shouldst cut this whetstone with a razor." Navius, without a moment's hesitation, took a razor and cut it in twain. In consequence of this miracle, Tarquin gave up his design of es- tablishing new centuries ; but with each of the former centuries he associated another under the same name, so that henceforth there were the first and second Ramnes, Titles, and Luccrcs. The num- ber of Vestal Virgins was also increased from four to six, the two new vestals being probably taken from the Luceres. Tarquiu had a favorite, Scrvius Tullius, said to have been the son of a female slave taken at the capture of the Latin town Cor- niciilum. His infancy was marked by prodigies which foreshad- owed his future greatness. On one occasion a flame played around his head, as he was asleep, without harming him. Tanaquil fore- saw the greatness of the boy, and from this time he was brought up as the king's child. Tarquin afterward gave him his daughter in marriage, and left the government in his hands. But the sons of Ancus Marcius, fearing lest Tarquin should transmit the crown \\ 18 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. III. to his son-in-law, hired two countrymen to assassinate the king. These men, feigning to have a quarrel, came before the king to have their dispute decided, and while he was listening to the com- plaint of one, the other gave him a deadly wound with his axe. But the sons of Ancus did not reap the fruit of their crime ; for Tanaquil, pretending that the king's wound was not mortal, told them that he would soon return, and that he had, meantime, ap~ pointed Servius to act in his stead. Servius forthwith proceeded to discharge the duties of king, greatly to the satisfaction of the people ; and when the death of Tarquin could no longer be con- cealed, he was already in firm possession of the regal power. Tar- quin had reigned thirty-eight years. C. SERVIUS TULLICS, u.c. 578-534. Servius thus succeeded to the throne without being elected by the Senate and the Assembly of the Curia?. The reign of this king is almost as barren of mili- tary exploits as that of Numa. His great deeds were those of peace ; and he was regarded by posterity as the author of the later Roman constitution, just as Romulus was of the earlier. Three im- portant acts are assigned to Servius by universal tradition. Of these the greatest was : I. The reform of the Roman Constitution. In this reform his two main objects were to give the Plebeians political rights, and to assign to property that influence in the state which had previously belonged exclusively to birth. To carry his purpose into effect he made a twofold division of the Roman people, one territorial and the other according to property. a. It must be recollected that the only existing political organi- zation was that of the Patricians into 3 tribes, 30 curia?, and 300 gcntes ; but Servius now divided the whole Roman territory into Tliirh/ Tribes, and, as this division was simply local, these tribes contained Plebeians as well as Patricians. But, though the insti- tution of the Thirty Tribes gave the Plebeians a political organiza- tion, it conferred upon them no political power, nor any right to take part in the elections, or in the management of public affairs. At a later time the tribes assembled in the forum for the transac- tion of business, and were hence called Comitia Triinta. The Pa- tricians were then excluded from this assembly, which was sun- moncd by the Tribunes of the Plcbs, and was entirely Plebeian. l>. The means by which Servius gave the Plebeians a share i\. the government was by establishing a new Popular Assembly, in which Patricians and Plebeians alike voted. It was so arranged that the wealthiest persons, whether Patricians or Plebeians, pos- sessed the chief power. In order to ascertain the property of each citizen, Servius instituted the Census, *hich was a register of Ro- B.C. 578-534. REIGN OF SERVIUS TULLIUS. 19 man citizens and their property. All Roman citizens possessing property to the amount of 12,500 asses and upward* were divided into five great Classes. The First Class contained the richest cit- izens, the Second Class the next in point of wealth, and so on. The whole arrangement was of a military character. Each of the five Classes was divided into a certain number of Centuries or Com- panies, half of which consisted of Scniores from the age of 4(5 to (JO, and half of Juniores from the age of 17 to 45. All the Classes had to provide their own arms and armor, but the expense of the equipment was in proportion to the wealth of each Class. The Five Classes formed the infantry. To these five Classes were add- ed two centuries of smiths and carpenters, and two of trumpeters and horn-blowers. These four centuries voted with the Classes. Those persons whose property did not amount to 12,500 asses were not included in the Classes, and formed a single century. At the head of the Classes were the Equites or cavalry. These consisted of eighteen centuries, six being the old patrician Equites, as founded by Romulus and augmented by Tarquinius Priscus, and the other twelve being chosen from the chief plebeian families.f The Centuries formed the new National Assembly. They mus- tered as an army in the Campus Martins, or the Field of Mare, on the banks of the Tiber, outside the city. They voted by Centu- ries, and were hence called the Comitia Centuriata. Each Century counted as one vote, but did not consist of the same number of men. On the contrary, in order to give the preponderance to * The As was originally a pound weight of copper of 12 ounces. t The following table will show the census of each class, and the number of centuries which each contained : Equites Centurise 18 First Class. Census, 100,000 asses and upward. Centurise Seniorum 40 ) Centurise Juniorum 40 > 82 Centurite Fabrum (smiths and carpenters) . . 2J Second Class. Census, 75,000 asses and upward. Centuri;e Seniorum 10) gn Centurise Juniorum 10 j Third Class. Census, 50,000 asses and upward. Centurise Seniorum 10\ ^Q Centurife Juniorum 1" j Fourth Class. Census, 25,000 asses and upward. (! nturifp Seniorum 10) go Centuriae Juniorum 10 / Ftfth Class. CeiiMi^, 1'2,5'SO asses and upward. Centuria? Seniorum 15) < Vnhiriaj Juniorum 15,- 32 Ceuturiae cornicinum, tubicinum 2) Centuriae capite censorum 1 Sum total of the centurise 193 20 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. III. wealth, the first or richest class contained a far greater number of Centuries than any of the other classes (as will be seen from the table below), although they must at the same time have included a much smaller number of men. The Kquites and First Class alone amounted to 100 Centuries, or more than half of the total number; so that, if they agreed to vote the same way, they pos- sessed at once an absolute majority. An advantage Avas also giA r en to age; for the Seniores, though possessing an equal number of votes, must of course have been very inferior in number to the Ju- niores. Servius made the Comitia Centuriata the sovereign assembly of the nation ; and he accordingly transferred to it from the Comitia Curiata the right of electing kings and the higher magistrates, of enacting and repealing laws, and of deciding in cases of appeal from the sentence of a judge. But he did not dare to abolish tlio old Patrician assembly, and was even obliged to enact that no vote of the Comitia Centuriata should be valid till it had received the sanction of the Comitia Curiata. Thus, in consequence of the legislation, we shall find that Rome subsequently possessed three sovereign assemblies: 1. The Comitia Centuriata, consisting of both Patricians and Plebeians, and voting according to Centuries ; 2. The Comitia Curiata, consisting ex- clusively of Patricians, and voting according to Curia; ; 3. The Comitia Tributa, exclusively of Plebeians, and voting according to Tribes. II. The second great work of Servius was the extension of the Pom-cerium, or hallowed boundary of the city, and the completion of the city by incorporating with it the Quirinal, Yiminal, and Es- quiline Hills.* He surrounded the whole with a stone wall, called after him the wall of Servius Tullius; and from the Port a Collina to the Esquiline Gate, where the hills sloped gently to the plain, he constructed a gigantic mound nearly a mile in length, and u moat 100 feet in breadth and 30 in depth, from which the earth of the mound was dug. Rome thus acquired a circumference of five miles, and this continued to be the legal extent of the city till the time of the emperors, although suburbs were added to it. III. An important alliance with the Latins, by which Rome and the cities of Latium became the members of one great league, was one of the great events which distinguished the reign of Servius. Servius gave his two daughters in marriage to the two sons of Tarquinius Priscus. Lucius, the elder, was married to a quiet and * The celebrated seven hills upon which Rome stood were the Palatine, Avcn- tine, Capitoline, Cselian, Quirinal, Viminal, and Esquilian. The Hona Pincius was notinchuled within the Servian Wall. B.C. 078-534. KEIGN OF SEBVIUS TULLIUS. 21 gentle wife; Aruns, the younger, to an asjiring and ambitious woman. The character of the two brothers was the veiy opposite of the wives who had fallen to their lot ; for Lucius was proud and haughty, but Aruns unambitious and quiet. The wife of Aruns, enraged at the long life of her father, and fearing that at his divth ROMA Map of Rome, showing the Servian Wall and the Seven Hill.-*. her husband would tamely resign the sovereignty to his elder brother, resolved to murder both her father and husband. Her fiendish spirit put into the heart of Lucius thoughts of crime which he had never entertained before. Lucius made way with Ids wife, and the younger Tullia with her husband ; and the survivors, with- 22 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. Ill out even the show of mourning, were straightway joined in nnhaL lowed wedlock. Tullia now incessantly urged her husband to murder her father, and thus obtain the kingdom winch he so ar dently coveted. Tarqtiin formed a conspiracy with the Patricians, who were enraged at the reforms of Servius; and when the plot was ripe he entered the forum arrayed in the kingly robes, seated himself in the royal chair, in the senate-house, and ordered the senators to be summoned to him as their king. At the first news of the commotion Servius hastened to the senate-house, and, stand- ing at the doorway, bade Tarquin to come down from the throne ; but Tarquin sprang forward, seized the old man, and flung him down the stone steps. Covered with blood, the king hastened home ; but, before he reached it, he was overtaken by the servants of Tarquin, and murdered. Tullia drove to the senate-house and greeted her husband as king ; but her transports of joy struck even him with horror. He bade her go home ; and. as she Avas returning, her charioteer pulled up and pointed ont the corpse of her father lying in his blood across the road. She commanded him to drive on; the blood of her father spirted over the carriage and on her dress ; and from that day forward (he place bore the name of the Wicked Street. The body lay unburied ; for Tarquin said, scoffingly, "Romulus too went without burial ;" ai:d this im- pious mockery is said to have given rise to his surname of Su- perbus, or the Proud. Servius had reigned forty-four years. 7. Reign of Lucius TARQUISIUS SUPERUUS. or, THE PBOUD, B.C. 531-510. Tarquin commenced his reign without any of tho forms of election. One of his first acts was to abolish all the priv- ileges which had been conferred upon the Plebeians by Servius. He also compelled the poor to work at miserable wages upon his magnificent buildings, and the hardships which they suffered were so great that many put an end to their lives. But he did not con- fine his oppressions to the poor. All the senators and patricians whom he mistrusted, or whose wealth he coveted, were put to death or driven into exile. He surrounded himself with a body-guard, by whose means he was enabled to carry out his designs. But, al- though a tyrant at home, he raised the state to great influence and power among the surrounding nations, partly by his alliances and partly by his conquests. He gave his daughter in marriage to Octavius Mamilius, of Tusculum, the most powerful of the Latins, by whose means he acquired great influence in Latium. Any Lat- in chiefs like Turnns Herdonius, who attempted to resist him, were treated as traitors, and punished Avith death. At the solemn meet- ing of the Latins at the Alban Mount, Tarquin sacrificed the bull on behalf of all the allies, and distributed the flesh to the of the league- B.C. 534-510. REIGN OF L. TAKQUINIUS SUPERBUS. 23 Strengthened by this Latin alliance, Tarquin turned his arms against the Volscians. lie took the wealthy town of Suessa Po- inetia, with the spoils of which he commenced the erection of a magnificent temple on the Cnpitoline Hill, which his father had vowed. This temple was dedicated to the three gods of the Latin and Etruscan religions, Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. A human head (//<*), fresh bleeding and uudecayed, is said to have been found by the workmen as they were digging the foundations, and being accepted as a sign that the place was destined to become the head of the world, the name of CAPITOLIUM was given to the tem- ple, and thence to the hill. In a stone vault beneath were deposit, ed the Sibylline books, containing obscure and prophetic sayings. One day a Sibyl, a prophetess from Cuma?, appeared before the king and offered to sell him nine books. Upon his refusing to buy them she went away and burned three, and then demanded the same sum for the remaining six as she had asked for the nine. But the king laughed, whereupon she again burnt three and then demanded the same sum as before for the remaining three. Wondering at this strange conduct, the king purchased the books. They were placed under the care of two patricians, and were con- sulted when the state was in danger. Tarquin next attacked Gabii, one of the Latin cities, which re- fused to enter into the league. Unable to take the city by force, he had recourse to stratagem. His son, Sextus, pretending to be ill treated by his father, and covered with the bloody marks of stripes, fled to Gabii. The infatuated inhabitants intrusted him with the command of their troops ; and when he had obtained the unlimited confidence of the citizens, he sent a messenger to his fa- ther to inquire how he should deliver the city into his hands. The king, who was walking in his garden when the messenger arrived, made no reply, but kept striking off the heads of the tallest pop- pies with his stick. Sextus took the hint. He put to death or banished, on false charges, all the leading men of the place, and then had no difficulty in compelling it to submit to his father. In the midst of his prosperity Tarquin was troubled by a strange portent. A serpent crawled out from the altar in the royal pal- ace, and seized on the entrails of the victim. The king, in fear, sent his two sons, Titus and Aruns, to consult the oracle at Pel- phi. They were accompanied by their cousin L. Junius Brutus. One of the sisters of Tarquin had been married to M. Brutus, a man of great wealth, who died, leaving two sons under age.* Of these the elder was killed by Tarquin, who coveted their ] sions ; the younger escaped his brother's fate only by feigning See genealogical table on the next pagj. 24 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP III. idiotcy. On arriving at Delphi, Brutus propitiated the priestess with the gift of a golden stick inclosed in a hollow staff. After executing the king's commission, Titus and Aruns asked the priest- ess who was to reign at Rome after their father. The priestess replied, whichsoever should first kiss his mother. The princes agreed to keep the matter secret from Sextus, who was at Rome, and to cast lots between themselves. Brutus, who better under- stood the meaning of the oracle, fell, as if by chance, when they quitted the temple, and kissed the earth, the mother of them all. Soon afterward Tarquin laid siege to Ardea, a city of the Rutu- lians. The place could not be taken by force, and the Roman army lay encamped beneath the walls. Here, as the king's sons, and their cousin Tarquiniua Collatinus, were feasting together, a dispute arose about the virtue of their wives. As nothing was do- ing in the field, they mounted their horses to visit their homes by surprise. They first went to Rome, where they surprised the king's daughters at a splendid banquet. They then hastened to Collatia, and there, though it was late in the night, they found Lu- cret'n, the wife of Collatinus, spinning amid her handmaids. The beauty and virtue of Lucretia excited the evil passions of Sextus. A few days after he returned to Collatia, where he was hospitably received by Lucretia as her husband's kinsman. In the dead of night he entered her chamber with a drawn sword, threatening that, if she did not yield -to his desires, he would kill her and lay by her side a slave with his throat cut, and would declare that he had killed them both taken in adultery. Fear of such a shame forced Lucretia to consent ; but, as soon as Sextus had departed, she sent for her husband and father. Collatinus came, accom- panied by L. Brutus, her father, Lucretius, brought with him P. Valerius. They found her in an agony of sorrow. She told them what had happened, enjoined them to avenge her dishonor, and The following genealogical table exhibits the relationship of the family : Demaratus of Coiinth. I TARQUINIUS PP.ISCUS. 1 Aruns. Tarquinia, married Servius Tullius. Tarquinia, L. TAK< married SUPE M. Brutus. | jTTimus Aruns. Egerius, Runs. commander of Collatia. M. Brutus, put to death by Tarquiniug. L. BRUTUS, Titus, the Consul. Sextus. Aruns. Tarquinius Collatinus, married Lucretia. B.C. 509. THE REPUBLIC 2f> then stabbed herself to the heart. They all swore to ave.:ge her. Brutus threw oft' his assumed stupidity, and placed himself at their head. They carried the corpse into the market-place of Collatia. There the people took up arms, and renounced the Tarquins. A number of young men attended the funeral procession to Rome. Brutus summoned the people, and related the deed of shame. All classes were inflamed with the same indignation. A decree was passed deposing the king, and banishing him and his family from the city. Brutus now set out for the army at Ardea. Tarquinius meantime had hastened to Home, but found the gates closed against him. Brutus was received with joy at Ardea; and the army re- nounced their allegiance to the tyrant. Tarquin, with his two sons, Titus and Aruns, took refuge at Csere, in Etruria. Sextus fled to Gabii, where he was shortly after murdered by the friends of those whom he had put to death. Tarquin had reigned 22 years when he was driven out of Rome. In memory of this event an annual festival Avas celebrated on the 24th of February, called the Regifogium or Fufjalia. Tin; REPUBLIC. Thus ended monarchy at Kome. Tarquin the Proud had made the name of king so hateful that the people re- solved to intrust the kingly power to two men, who were only to hold office for a year. In later times they were called Consuls, but at their first institution they were named Pra'iors. They were elected by the Comitia Cmiata, and possessed the same honors as the king had had. The first consuls were L. Brutus and Tarquin- ius Collatinus (B.C. 509). But the people so hated the very name and race of Tarquin, that Collatinus was obliged to resign his of- fice and retire from Rome. 1 J . Valerius was elected consul in his place. Meantime cmbassadors came to Rome from Tarquin, asking that his private property should be given up to him. The demand seemed just to the Senate and the People ; but, while the embassa- dors were making preparation for carrying away the property, they formed a conspiracy among the young Roman nobles for the resto- ration of the royal family. The plot was discovered by means of a slave, and among the conspirators were found the two sons of Brutus himself. But the consul would not pardon his guilty chil- dren, and ordered the lictors* to put them to death with the other traitors. The agreement to surrender the property was made void by this attempt at treason. The royal goods were given up to the people to plunder. * The Lictorx were public officers who attended upon the Roman magistrate. Each consul had twelve lictors. They carried upon their shoulders fascett, which vrere rods bound in the form of ft bundle, and containing an axe in the middle. 2G HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. III. As the plot had failed. Tarquin now endeavored to recover the throne by arms. The people ofTarquinii and Veii espoused the cause of their Etruscan kinsmen, and marched against Home. The two Consuls advanced to meet them. When Aruns, the king's son, saw Brutus at the head of the Roman cavalry, he spur- red his horse to the charge. Brutus did not shrink from the com. bat ; and both fell from their horses mortally wounded by each other's spears. A desperate battle between the two armies now followed. Both parties claimed the victorv, till a voice was heard in tne dead of night, proclaiming that the Romans had conquered, as the Etruscans had lost one man more. Alarmed at this, the Etruscans fled ; and Valerius, the surviving Consul, returned to Home, carrying with him the dead body of Brutus. The matrons mourned for Brutus a whole year, because he had revenged the death of Lucretia. This was the first war for the restoration of Tarquin. Valerius was now left without a colleague ; and as he began to build a house on the top of the hill Velia, which looked down upon the forum, the people feared that he was aiming at kingly power. Thereupon Valerius not only pulled down the house, but, calling an assembly of th3 people, ho ordered the lictors to lower the fas- ces before them, as an acknowledgment that their power was su- perior to his. He likewise brought forward a law enacting that every citizen who was condemned by a magistrate should have a right of appeal to the people. Valerius became, in consequence, so popular that he received the surname of Pullicola, or "The People's Friend." Valerius then summoned an assembly for the election of a suc- cessor to Brutus, and Sp. Lucretius was chosen. Lucretius, how- ever, lived only a few clays, and M. Horatius was elected consul in his place. It was Hovatius who had the honor of consecrating the temple on the Capitol, which Tarquin had left unfinished when lie was driven from the throne. The second year of the republic (B.C. 508) witnessed the second attempt of Tarquin to recover the crown. He now applied for help to Lars Porsena, the powerful ruler of the Etruscan town of Clusium, who marched against Rome at the head of a vast army. The Romans could not mce*; him in the field j and Porsena seized without opposition the Janiculum, a hill immediately opposite the city, and separated from it only by the Tiber. Rome was now in the greatest danger, and the Etruscans would have entered the city by the Sublician bridge had not Horatius Codes, with two comrades, kept the whole Etruscan army at bay while the Romans broke down the bridge behind him. When it was giving way ho B.C. 508. THE REPUBLIC. 27 sent back his two companions, and withstood alone the attacks of the foe till the cracks of the falling timbers and the shouts of his countrymen told him that the bridge had fallen. Then praying, " O Father Tiber, take me into thy charge and bear me up !" he plunged into the stream and swam across in safety, amid the ar- rows of the enemy. The state raised a statue in his honor, and allowed him as much land as he could plow round in one day. Few legends are more celebrated in Roman history than this gal- lant deed of Horatius, and Roman writers loved to tell "How well Horatius kept the bridgp In the brave days of old." The Etruscans now proceeded to lay siege to the city, which soon began to suffer from famine. Thereupon a young Roman, named C. Mucius, resolved to deliver his country by murdering the invading king. He accordingly went over to the Etruscan camp; but, ignorant of the person of Porsena, killed the royal secretary instead. Seized and threatened with torture, he thrust his right hand into the fire on the altar, and there let it burn, to show how little he heeded pain. Astonished at his courage, the king bade him depart in peace ; and Mucius, out of gratitude, advised him to make peace with Rome, since three hundred noble youths, he said, had sworn to take the life of the king, and he was the first upon whom the lot had fallen. Mucius was henceforward called Scajvola, or the Left-handed, because his right hand hud been burnt off. Porsena, alarmed for his life, which he could not secure against so many desperate men, forthwith offered peace to the Ro- mans on condition of their restoring to the Veientines the land which they had taken from them. These terms were accepted, and Porsena withdrew his troops from the Janiculum after receiv- ing ten youths and ten maidens as hostages from the Romans. Cloclia, one of the maidens, escaped from the Etruscan camp, and swam across the Tiber to Rome. She was sent back by the Ro- mans to Porsena, who was so amazed at her courage that he not only set her at liberty, but allowed her to take with her those of the hostages whom she pleased. Thus ended the second attempt to restore the Tarquins by force.* After Porsena quitted Rome, Tarquin took refuge with his son- in-law, Octavius Mamilius, of Tusculum. The thirty Latin cities now espoused the cause of the exiled king, and declared war against Rome. The contest was decided by the battle of the Lake * There is, however, reason to believe that these brilliant st'Tic- ''"nee:.! one of the earliest and greatest disasters, of the eity. It appears that Itomc was iv:illy conquered by Porsena, and lost all the territory which the kings had gained on the right side of the Tiber. Hence we find the thirty tribe?, established by ter- vins Tailing, reduced to twenty after the war with 1'orscna. 28 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. III. Regillus, which was long celebrated in lloman story, and the ac- count of which resembles one of the battles in the Iliad. The Ro- mans were commanded by the Dictator,* A. Postumius, and by T. yEbutius, the Master of the Horse ; at the head of the Latins wore Tarquin and Octavius Mamilius. The struggle was fierce and bloody, but the Latins at length fled. Almost all the chiefs on cither side fell in the conflict, or were grievously wounded. Titus, the son of Tarquin, was killed; and the aged ki;:g \\as wounded, out escaped with his life. It was related in the old tradition that the Romans gained this battle by the assistance of the gods Castoi and Pollux, who were seen charging the Latins at the head of the Roman cavalry, and who afterward carried to Rome the tidings of the victory. A temple was built in the forum, on the spot where they appeared, and their festival was celebrated yearly. This was the third and last attempt to restore the Tarquins. The Latins were completely humbled by this victory. Tarquinius Superbus had no other state to which he could apply for assistance. He had already survived all his family ; and he now fled to Cumae, where he died a wretched and childless old man (B.C. 4'JG). * The Dictator was an extraordinary magistrate appointed by one of the Con- tills in seasons of great peril, lie possessed absolute power. Twenty-four lie- fcorri attended him, bearing the axes in the fasces, even in the city; and from his decision there was no appeal. He could not hold the office longer than six month?, and lie usually laid it down much sooner. He appointed a Magixtcr Equitum, or Master of the Horse, who acted as his lieutenant. From the time of the ap- pointment of the Dictator, all the other magistrates, even the Consuls, ceased to exercise any power. Coin representing the children of Brutus led to death by Lictors. The (Jampagna of Uonie. CHAPTER IV. FROM THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE UEGILLUS TO THE DECEMVI- RATE. B.C. 498-451. THE historv of Rome for the next 150 years consists internally of the struggles between the Patricians and Plebeians, and exter- nally of the wars with the Etruscans, Vol.-cians. ^Equians, and oth- er tribes in the immediate neighborhood of Rome. The internal history of Rome dining this period is one of great interest. The Patricians and Plebeians formed two distinct or- ders in the state. After the banishment of the kings the Patri- cians retained exclusive possession of political power. The Ple- beians, it is true, could vote in the Comitia Centuriata, but, as they were mostly poor, they were outvoted by the Patricians and their clients. The Consuls and other magistrates were taken entirely from the Patricians, who also possessed the exclusive knowledge and administration of the law. In one word, the Patricians were a ruling and the Plebeians a subject class. But this was not all- 30 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. IV. The Patricians formed not only a separate class, but a separate ca.s/e, 11. )t marrying with the Plebeians, and worshiping the gods with different religious rites. If a Patrician man married a Ple- bjian wife, or a Patrician woman a Plebeian husband, the state re- fused to recognize the marriage, and the offspring was treated as illegitimate. The Plebeians had to complain not only of political, but also of private wrongs. The law of debtor and creditor was very severe at Home. If the borrower did not pay the money by the time agreed upon, his person was seized by the creditor, and he was obliged to work as a slave.* Nay, in certain cases he might even be put to death by the creditor ; and if there were more than one, his body might be cut in pieces and divided among them. The whole weight of this oppressive law fell upon the Plebeians ; and what rendered the case still harder was, that they were frequently compelled, through no fault of their own, to become borrowers. They were small landholders, living by cultivating the soil with their own hands ; but as they had to serve in the army without pay, they had no means of engaging laborers in their absence. Hence, on their return home, they were left without the means of subsistence or of purchasing seed for the next crop, and borrowing was their only resource. Another circumstance still farther aggravated the hardships of the Plebeians. The state possessed a large quantity of land called Ager Pub/icvs, or the "Public Land." This land originally be- longed to the kings, being set apart for their support; and it was constantly increased by conquest, as it was the practice on the sub- jugation of a people to deprive them of a certain portion of their land. This public land was let by the state subject to a rent; but as the Patricians possessed the political power, they divided the public land among themselves, and paid for it only a nominal rent. Thus the Plebeians, by whose blood and unpaid toil much of this land had been won, were excluded from all participation in it. It was not to be expected that the Plebeians would submit to such grievous injustice. The contest was twofold. It was a struggle of a subject against a ruling class, and of rich against poor. The Plebeians strove to obtain an equal share not only in the political power, but also in the public land. The cruelty of the Patrician creditors was the most pressing evil, and led to the first reform. In r,.c. 4(H the Plebeians, after a campaign against the Volscians, instead of returning to Rome, retired to the Sacred Mount, a h',11 about two miles from the city, * Debtors tlui? -rivjn over to their creditors were called Addic'i. B.C. 494. THE PATRICIANS AND PLEBEIANS. 81 near the junction of the Arno and the Tiber. Here they determ- ined to settle and found a, new town, leaving Rome to the Patri- cians and their clients. This event is known as the Secession to the Sac.icd Mount. The Patricians, alarmed, sent several of their number to persuade the Plebeians to return. Among the deputies was the agedMenenius Agrippa, who had great influence with the Plebeians. He related to them the celebrated fable of the Belly and the Members. "Once upon a time," he said, "the Members refused to work any longer for the Belly, which led a la/y life, and grew fat upon their toils. But receiving no longer any nourishment from the Belly, they soon began to pine away, and found that it was to the Belly they owed their life and strength." The fable was understood, and the Plebeians agreed to treat with the Patricians. It was decided that existing debts should be canceled, and that all debtors in bondage should be restored to freedom. It was necessary, however, to provide security for the future, and the Plebeians therefore insisted that two of their own number should be elected annually, to whom the Plebeians might appeal for assistance against the decisions of the Patrician nui.uis- trates. These officers were called Tribunes of t lie Pld>s. Their persons were declared sacred and inviolate ; they were never to quit the city during their year of office ; and their houses were to remain open day and night, that all who were in need of help might apply to them. Their number was soon afterward increased to live, and at a later time to ten. They gradually gained more and more power, and obtained the right of putting a veto* upon any public business.! At the Sacred Mount the Plebeians also obtained the privilege of having two vEdiles of their order appoint- ed. These officers had at a later time the care of the public build- ings and roads, and the superintendence of the police of the city. Emboldened by this success, the Plebeians now demanded a share in the public land. And in this they found an unexpected supporter among the Patricians themselves. Sp. Cassius, one of the most distinguished men in the state, who had formed the league between the Romans, Latins, and Hernicans, brought forward in his third consulship a law, by which a portion of the public land was to be divided among the Plebeians (u.c. 48G). This was the iirst Ai/rtiruiit Lair mentioned in Roman history. It must be rec- * This was called tlie right ofintt'rc."xi--toii, fnmi inteicedo, "to come between." t The Tribunes were originally elected nt tin; Comitia of the Centuries, where, the influence of the I'atricians was predominant ; hut by the 1'iihlilian Law, ]>riips,'d by the tribune rtiblilius V<>ler<-, and pissi-d K c. 471, the election was toantftrred to the Onuitia ot the Tribe-:. ] v \vl ich means the Plebeians obtained tbe uncontrolled election uf their own officers. 32 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. IV. ollccted that all the Agrarian laws dealt only with the public land, and never touched the property of private persons. Notwithstand- ing the violent opposition of the Patricians, the law was passed ; but it was never carried into execution, and the Patricians soon revenged themselves upon its author. In the following year he was accused of aiming at the kingly power, and condemned to death. He was scourged and beheaded, and his house razed to the ground. We now turn to the external history of Rome. Under the kin^s Rome had risen to a superiority over her neighbors, and had extended her dominion over the southern part of Etruria and the greater part of Latium. The early history of the republic presents a very different spectacle. For the next 100 years she is engaged in a difficult and often dubious struggle with the Etruscans on the one hand, and the Volscians and JEquiana on the other. It would be unprofitable to relate the details of these petty campaigns; but there are three celebrated legends connected with them which must not be passed over. 1. CORIOLANUS AND TUB Voi.sciANS, B.C. 488. C. Marcius, sur- named Coriolanus, from his valor at the capture of the Latin town of Corioli, was a brave but haughty Patrician youth. He was hated by the Plebeians, who refused him the consulship. This inflamed him with anger; and accordingly, when the city was suf- fering from famine, and a present of corn came from Sicily, Corio Ian us advised the Senate not to distribute it among the Plebeians unless they gave up their Tribunes. Such insolence enraged the Plebeians, who would have torn him to pieces on the spot had not the tribunes summoned him before the Comitia of the Tribes. Coriolanus himself breathed nothing but defiance; and his kins- men and friends interceded for him in vain. He was condemned to exile. He now turned his steps to Antium, the capital of the Volscians, and offered to lead them against Rome. Attius Tul- lius, king of the Volscians, persuaded his countrymen to appoint Coriolanus their general. Nothing could check his victorious progress; town after town fell before him; and he advanced with- in five miles of the city, ravaging the lands of the Plebeians, but sparing those of the Patricians. The city was filled \\ith despair. The ten first men in the Senate were sent in hopes of moving his compassion. But they were received with the utmost sternness, and told that the city must submit to his absolute will. Next day the pontiffs, augurs, fiamens, and all the priests, came in their robes of office, and in vain prayed him to spare the city. All seemed lost; but Rome Avas saved by her women. Next morning the noblest matrons, headed by Veturia, the aged mother of Cor S.C.48?. COKIOLANUS AND THE VOLSCIANS. 33 olanus, i.nd bv his wif^ Volumnia, hohling her little children by the hand, came to his tent. Their lamentations turned him from his purpose. "Mother," he said, bursting into tears, "thou hast saved Rome, but lost thy son !" lie then led the Volscians home, but they put him to death because he had spared Rome. Others The Environs of Home. relate that he lived among the Volscians to a great age, and waa often heard to say that " none but an old man can feel how wretched it is to live in a foreign land." 2. TIIK FAIJIA GENS AND THE VEIENTINES, B.C. 477. The Fabii were one of ths most powerful of the Patrician houses. For seven successive years one of the Consuls was always a Fabius. T'-o c 34 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. IV. Fabii had been among the leading opponents of the Agrarian Law ; and Koeso Fabius had taken an active part in obtaining the con- demnation of Sp. Cassius. But shortly afterward we find this same Kseso the advocate of the popular rights, and proposing that the Agrarian Law of Oassius should be carried into effect. He was supported in his new views by his powerful house, though the reasons for their change of opinion we do not know. But the Fa- bii made no impression upon the great body of the Patricians, and only earned for themselves the hearty hatred of their order. Find- ing that they could no longer live in peace at Rome, they determ- ined to leave the city, and found a separate settlement, where they might still be useful to their native land. One of the most formi- dable enemies of the republic was the Etruscan city of Veil, situate about twelve miles from Rome. Accordingly, the Fabian house, consisting of 300 males of full age, accompanied by their wives and children, clients and dependents, marched out of Rome by the right- hand arch of the Carmental Gate, and proceeded straight to the Cremcra, a river which flows into the Tiber below Veii. On the Cremera they established a fortified camp, and, sallying thence, they laid waste the Veientine territory. For two years they sustained the whole weight of the Veientine war; and all the attempts of the Veientines to dislodge them proved in vain. But at length they were enticed into an ambuscade, and were all slain. The settlement was destroyed, and no one of the house survived except a boy who had been left behind at Rome, and who became the an- cestor of the Fabii, afterward so celebrated in Roman history. The Fabii were sacrificed to the hatred of the Patricians; for the consul T. Mcnenius was encamped a short way off at the time, and he did nothing to save them. 3. CINCINNATUS AND THE .ZEQUIANS, B.C. 458. The .^Equians in their numerous attacks upon the Roman territory generally occu- pied Mount Algidus, which formed a part of the group of the 'Al- ba n Hills in Latium. It was accordingly upon this mount that the battles between the Romans and JKquians most frequently took place. In the year 458 i?.c. the Roman consul L. Minucius was defeated on the Algidus, and surrounded in his camp. Five horse- men, who made their escape before the Romans were completely encompassed, brought the tidings to Rome. The Senate forth- with appointed L. Cincinnatus dictator. L. Cincinnatus was one of the heroes of old Roman story. When the deputies of the Senate came to him to announce his elevation to the dictatorship they found him driving a plow, and clad only in his tunic or shirt. They bade him clothe himself, that he might hear the commands of the Senate. He put on his B.C.458. CINCINNATI^ AND THE JEQUIANS. 3.-, toga, which his wife Racilia brought him. The deputies then told him of the peril of the Roman army, and that lie had been made Dictator. The next morning, before daybreak, he appeared in the forum, and ordered all the men of military age to meet him in he evening in the Field of Mars, -with food for five days, and each with twelve stakes. His orders were obeyed ; and with such speed did he march, that by midnight he reached Mount Algidns. Plac- ing his men around the TEquian camp, he told them to raise the tyai-cry, and at the same time to begin digging a trench and rais- ing a mound, on the top of which the stakes were to be driven in. The other Roman armv, which was shut in, hearing the war-crv, burst forth from their camp, and fought with the ^Equians all night. The Dictator's troops thus worked without interruption, and com- pleted the intrenchmcnt by the morning. The .^Equians found themselves hemmed in between the two armies, and were forced to surrender. The Dictator made them pass under the yoke, which was formed by two spears fixed upright in the ground, while a third '.vas fastened across them. Cincinnatus entered Rome in triumph only twenty-four hours after he had quitted it, having thus saved a whole Roman army from destruction. In reading the wars of the early Republic, it is important to rec- ollect the -League formed by Spurius Cassius, the author of the Agrarian Law. between the Romans, Latins, and Hernicans. This League, to which allusion has been already made, was of the most intimate kind, and the armies of the three states fought by each other's sides. It was by means of this League that the ^Etjuians and Volscians were kept in check, for they were two of the most warlike nations in Italy, and would have been more than a match for the unsupported arms of Rome. Tarpeian Kock. CHAPTER V. THE DECEMVIRATE. B.C. 451-449. FROM the Agrarian Law of Sp. Cassius to the appointment of the Decemvirs was a period of more than thirty years. During the whole of this time the straggle between the Patricians and the Plebeians was increasing. The latter constantly demanded, and the former as firmly refused, the execution of the Agrarian Law of Cnssius. But, though the Plebeians failed in obtaining- this ob- ject, they nevertheless made steady progress in gaining for them- selves a more important position in the city. In u.c. 471 the Pub- lilian Law was carried, by which the election of the Tribunes and Plebeian ^Ediles was transferred from the Comitia of the Centuries to those of the Tribes.* From this time the Comitia of the Tribes may be regarded as one of the political assemblies of the state, ranking with those of the Centuries and the Curies. But the Pa- tricians still retained exclusive possession of the administrative and judicial powers, and there were no written laws to limit their au- thority and to regulate their decisions. Under these circum- * See note on p. 31. B.C.451-44'). THE DECEMVIRATE. 37 stances, the Tribune C. Terentilius Arsa proposed, in B.C. 462, that a commission of Ten Men (Decemviri) should be appointed to draw up a code of laws, by which a check might be put to the arbitrary power of the Patrician magistrates. This proposition, as might have been expected, met with the most vehement opposition from the Patricians. But the Plebeians were firm, and for five succi^s- ive years the same Tribunes were re-elected. It was during this simple that an attempt was made upon the Capitol by Herdonius, a Sabine chief, with a band of outlaws and slaves. It was a tur- bulent period, and the Patricians had recourse even to assassina- tion. At length, after a struggle of eight years, a compromise was effected, and it was arranged that Three Commissioners (Trium- viri) were to be sent into Greece to collect information respecting the laws of Solon at Athens, as well as of the other Greek states. After an absence of two years the three commissioners returned to Home (n.c. 452), and it was now resolved that a Council of Ten, or Decemvirs, should be appointed to draw up a code of laws, and, at the same time, to carry on the government and administer jus- tice. All the other magistrates were obliged to abdicate, and no exception was made even in favor of the Tribunes. The Decem- virs were thus intrusted with supreme power in the state. They entered upon their office at the beginning of u.c. 451. They were all Patricians. At their head stood Appius Claudius and T. Ge- nucius, who had been already appointed consuls for the year. They discharged the duties of their office with diligence, and dis- pensed justice with impartiality. Each administered the govern- ment day by day in succession, and the fasces were carried only before the one who presided for the day. They drew up a Code of Ten Tables, in which equal justice was dealt out to both orders. The Ten Tables received the sanction of the Comitia of the Cen- turies, and thus became law. On the expiration of their year of office all parties were so well satisiied with the manner in which the Decemvirs had discharged their duties that it, was resolved to continue the same form of gov- ernment for another year, more especially as some of them said that their work was not finished. A new Council of Ten was ac- cordinglv elected, of whom Appius Claudius alone belonged to the former body. lie had so carefully concealed his pride and ambi- tion during the previous year that he had been the most popular member of the council, and the Patricians, to prevent his appoint- ment for another year, had ordered him to preside at the Comitia for the elections, thinking that he would not receive votes for him- self. But Appius set such scruples at defiance, and not only re- turned himself as elected, but took care that his nine colleagues 88 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. V. should be subservient to lii.s views. He now threw off the mask he h:ul hitherto worn, and acted as the tyrant of Rome. Each Decemvir was attended by twelve lictors, who cairicd the fasces with the axes in them, so that 120 lictors were seen in the city in- stead of 12. The Senate was rarely summoned. No one was now safe, and many of the leading men .quitted Rome. Two new Td:les were added to the Code, making twelve in all; but these now laws were of the most oppressive kind, and confirmed the Patricians in their most odious privileges. When the year came to a close the Decemvirs neither resigned nor held Comitia for the election of successors, but continued to hold their power in defiance of the Senate and of the People. Next year (u.c. 449) the Sabincs and JEquians invaded the Roman territory, and two armies were dispatched against them, command- ed bv some of the Dacemvirs. Appius remained at Rome to ad- minister justice. But the soldiers fought witli no spirit under the command of men whom they detested, and two acts of outrageous tyranny caused them to turn their arms against their hated mas- ters. In the army fighting against the Sabines was a centurion named L. Sicinius Dentatus, the bravest of the brave. lie had fought in 120 battles; he had slain eight of the enemy in single combat; had received 40 wounds, all in front ; he had accompanied the tri- umphs of nine generals; and had war crowns and other rewards innumerable. As Tribune of the Plebs four years before, he had taken an active part in opposing the Patricians, and was now sus- pected of plotting against the Decemvirs. His death was accord- ingly resolved on, and he was sent with a company of soldiers as if to reconnoitre the enemy's position. But in a lonely spot they fell upon him and slew him, though not until he had destroyed most of the traitors. His comrades, who were told that he had fallen in an ambush of the enemy, discovered the foul treachery that had been practiced when they saw him surrounded by Roman soldiers who had evidently been slain by him. The Decemvirs prevented an immediate outbreak only by burying Dentatus with great pomp, but the troops were ready to rise in open mutiny upon the I'.r.-t provocation. In the. other army sent against the JEquians there was a well- known centurion named Vir-inius. He had a beautiful daughter, betrothed to L. Icilius, an eminent leader of the Plebeian order. The maiden had attracted the notice of the Decemvir Appius Claudius. He at first tried bribes and allurements, but when these failed he had recourse to an outrageous act of tyranny. One morning, as Virginia, attended by her nurse, was on the way to her 13. C. 45 1-449. THE DKCEMVIBATE. 39 school, which was in one of the booths surrounding the forum, M. Claudius, a client of Appius, laid hold of the damsel and claimed her is his slave. The cry of the nurse for help brought a crowd around them, and all parties went before the Decemvir. In his presence Marcus repeated the tale he had learnt, asserting that Virginia was the child of one of his female slaves, and had been imposed upon Virginius by his wife, who was childless. He far- ther stated that he would prove this to Virginius as soon as he re- turned to Rome, and he demanded that the girl should meantime be handed over to his custody. Appius, fearing a riot, said that he would let the cause stand over till the next day, but that then, whether her father appeared or not, he should know how to main- tain the laws. Straightway two friends of the family made all haste to the camp, which they reached the same evening. Virgin- ius immediately obtained leave of absence, and was already on his way to Rome, when the messenger of Appius arrived, instructing his colleagues to detain him. Early next morning Virginius and his daughter came into the forum with their garments rent. The father appealed to the people for aid, and the women in their com- pany sobbed aloud. But, intent upon the gratification of his pas- sions, Appius cared not for the misery of the father and the girl, and hastened to give sentence, by which he consigned the maiden to his client. Appius, who had brought with him a large body of patricians and their clients, ordered his lictors to disperse the mob. The people drew back, leaving Virginius and his daughter alone before the judgment-seat. All help was gone. The unhappy fa- ther then prayed the Decemvir to be allowed to speak one word to the nurse in his daughter's hearing, in order to ascertain whether she was really his daughter. The request was granted. Virgin- ius drew them both aside, and, snatching up a butcher's-knife from one of the stalls, plunged it into his daughter's breast, exclaiming, "There is no way but this to keep thee free." In vain did Appius call out to stop him. The crowd made way for him, and, holding his bloody knife on high, he rushed to the gate of the city and hasten- ed to the army. His comrades espoused his cause, expelled their commanders, and marched toward Rome. They were soon joined by the other army, to whom Numitorius and Icilius had carried the tidings. The Plebeians in the city flocked to them, and they all resolved to retire once more to the Sacred Mount. This second secession extorted from the Patricians the second great charter of the Plebeian rights. The Patricians compelled the Decemvirs to resign, and sent L.Valerius and M. Horatius, two of the most eminent men of their order, to negotiate with the Ple- beians. It was finally agreed that the Tribunes should be restored, 40 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. V. that the authority of the Comitia Tributa should be recognized, and that the right of appeal to the people against the power of the supreme magistrates should be confirmed. The Plebeians now returned to the city, and elected, for the first time, ten Tribunes instead of five, a number which remained unchanged down to the latest times. Virginias, Icilius, and Numitorius were among the new Tribunes. Two Consuls were elected in place of the Decemvirs, and the choice of the Comitia Centuriata naturally fell upon Valerius and Horatius. The new Consuls now redeemed their promises to the Plebeians by bringing forward the laws which are called after them, the Valerian and Horatian Laics. These celebrated laws en- acted : 1. That every Roman citizen should have the right of appeal against the sentence of the supreme magistrate. This was, in fact, a solemn confirmation of the old law of Valerius Publicola, passed in the first year of the republic. It was enacted again a third time in B.c.300, on the proposal of M. Valerius, the Consul. These re- peated enactments gave a still farther sanction to the law. In the same way the Great Charter of England was ratified several times. 2. That* the Plebiscita, or resolutions passed by the Plebeians in the Comitia Tributa, should have the force of laws, and should be binding alike upon Patricians and Plebeians. 3. That the persons of the Tribunes, yEdiles, and other Plebeian magistrates should be sacred, and whoever injured them should be sold as a slave. Virginius now accused Appius Claudius, who was thrown into prison to await his trial. But the proud Patrician, seeing that his condemnation was certain, put an end to his own life. Oppius, another of the Decemvirs, and the personal friend of Appius, was condemned and executed. The other Decemvirs were allowed to go into exile, but they were all declared guilty, and their property confiscated to the state. The Twelve Tables were always regarded as the foundation of the Roman law, and long continued to be held in the highest esti- mation. But they probably did little more than fix in a written form a lar^c body of customary law, though even this was a bene- fit to the Plebeians, as they were no longer subject to the arbitrary decisions of the Patrician magistrates. The Patricians still re- tained their exclusive privileges ; and the eleventh table even gave the sanction of law to the old custom which prohibited all inter- marriage (conmibiu)ti') between the two orders. View in the neighborhood of Veii. CHAPTER VI. FRCttl THE DECEMVIKATE TO THE CAPTURE OF ROME BY THK GAULS. B.C. 448-390. THE efforts of the leaders of the Plebeians were now directed to two subjects, the removal of the prohibition of intermarriage be- tween the two orders, and the opening of the Consulship to their own order. They attained the first object four years after the De- cemvirate by the Lex Cannleia, proposed by Canulcius, one of the Tribunes (n.c. 445). But they did not carry this law without a third secession, in which they occupied the Janiculum. At the same time a compromise was effected with .respect to the Consul- ship. The Patricians agreed that tho supreme power in the state should be intrusted to new officers bearing the title of Mil.'farji Tribunes with Consular Power, who might be chosen equally from Patricians and Plebeians. Their number varied in different years from three to six. In B.C. 444 three Military Tribunes were nom- inated for the first time. In the following year (443) two new magistrates, called Censors, were appointed. They were always to be chosen from the Patricians; and the reason of the institu- 42 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. VI. tion clearly was to deprive the Military Tribunes of some of the most important functions, which had been formerly discharged by the Consuls. The Censors originally held office for a period of five years, which was called a lustrum / but their tenure was limit- ed to eighteen months, as early as ten years after its institution (B.C. 443), by a law of the Dictator Mamercus JEmilius, though they continued to be appointed only once in five years.* Though the Military Tribunes could from their first institution be chosen from either order, yet such was the influence of the Pa- tricians in the Comitia of the Centuries that it was not till B.C. 400, or nearly forty years afterward, that any Plebeians were act- ually elected. In B.C. 421 the Qusestorship was also thrown open to them. The Qua* s tors were the paymasters of the state; and as the Censors had to fill up vacancies in the Senate from those who had held the office of Quaestor, the Plebeians thus became eligible for the Senate. During these struggles between the two orders an event took place which is frequently referred to by later writers. In the year 440 B.C. there was a great famine at Rome. Sp. Maelius, one of the richest of the Plebeian knights, expended his fortune in buy- ing up corn, which he sold to the poor at a small price, or distrib- uted among them gratuitously. The Patricians thought, or pre- tended to think, that he was aiming at kingly, power : and in the following year (439) the aged Quintius Cincinnatus, who had saved the Roman army on Mount Algidus, was appointed Dictator. lie nominated C. Servilius Ahala his Master of the Horse. During the night the Capitol and all the strong posts were garrisoned by the Patricians, and in the morning Cincinnatus appeared in the forum with a strong force, and summoned Mailius to appear be- fore his tribunal. But seeing the fate which awaited him, he re- fused to go, whereupon Ahala rushed into the crowd and struck him dead upon the spot. His property was confiscated, and his house was leveled to the ground. The deed of Ahala is frequent- ly mentioned by Cicero and other writers in terms of the highest admiration, but it was regarded bv the Plebeians at the time as an act of murder. Ahala was brought to trial, and only escaped con- demnation by a voluntary exile. In their foreign wars the Romans continued to be successful, and, aided by their allies the Latins and Ilernicans, they made * The Censorship was regarded as the highest dignity in the state, with the exception of the Dictatorship. The duties uf the Censors wire numerous and important. They not only took the c"nxns *4 the administration i;f the liuaiiu'.. 1 1' i!i.' . : B.C. 396. CAPTURE OF VEIL 43 steady progress in driving back their old enemies the Volscians and JEquians. About this time they planted several colonies in the districts which they conquered. These Roman colonies dif- fered widely from those of ancient Greece and of modern Europe. They were of the nature of garrisons established in conquered towns, and served both to strengthen and extend the power of Rome. The colonists received a portion of the conquered territo- ry, nnd lived as a ruling class among the old inhabitants, who re- tained the use of the land. The Romans now renewed their wars with the Etruscans ; and the capture of the important city of Veii was the first decisive ad- vantage gained by the Republic. The hero of this period was Camillus, who stands out prominently as the greatest general of the infant Republic, who saved Rome from the Gauls, and whom later ages honored as a second Romulus. Veii, however, was only taken after a long and severe struggle. It was closely allied with Fidemu, a town of Latium, not more than five or six miles from Rome. The two cities frequently united their arms against Rome, and in one of these wars Lars Tolum- nius, the king of Veii, was slain in single combat by A. Cornelius Cossms, one of the Military Tribunes, and his arms dedicated to Jupiter, the second of the three instances in which the Sjiolla Ofri- ma were won (B.C. 437). A few years afterward Fidcnrc was taken and destroyed (B.C. 42G), and at the same time a truce \vas grant- ed to the Veientines for twenty years. At the expiration of this truce the war was renewed, and the Romans resolved to subdue Veii as they had done Fidenaj. The siege of Veii, like that of Troy, lasted ten years, and the means of its capture was almost as marvelous as the wooden horse by which Troy was taken. The waters of the Alban Lake rose to such a height as to deluge the neighboring country. An oracle declared that Veii could not be taken until the waters of the lake found a passage to the sea. This reached the ears of the Romans, ^.ho thereupon constructed a tunnel to carry off its superfluous waters.* The formation of this tunnel is said to have suggested to the Romans the means of tak- ing Veii. M. Fnrius Camillus, who was appointed Dictator, com- menced digging a mine beneath the city, which was to have its outlet in the citadel, in the temple of Juno, the guardian deity of Veii. When the mine was finished, the attention of the inhabit- ants was diverted by feigned assaults against the walls. Camillus * This remarkable work, which, after the lap.=e of more than two thousand years, still continues to serve; the purpo-o f>r which it wns originally designed, is cut through ihe soft volcanic tufa of which the Alb in Hill is composer]. Tlic length of the tunnel is. about CCOO feet, and it is 4 feet (3 inches \vMr. 44 1IISTOKY OF ROME. CHAP. VI. led the way into the mine at the head of a picked body of troops. As he stood beneath the temple of Juno, he heard the soothsayer declare to the king of the Vcientincs that whoever should complete the sacrifice he was offering would be the conqueror. Thereupon the Romans burst forth and sei/ed the flesh of the victim, which Camillus offered up. The soldiers who guarded the walls were thus taken in the rear, the gates were thrown open, and the city soon filled with Romans. The booty was immense, and the few citizens who escaped the sword were sold as slaves. The inigc of Juno was carried to Rome, and installed with great pomp on Mount Aventine. where a temple was erected to her. Camillus entered Rome in a chariot drawn by four white horses. Rome had never yet seen so magnificent a triumph (B.C. 39G). One circumstance, which occurred during the siege of Veii, de- serves notice. As the Roman soldiers were obliged to pass the whole year under arms, in order to invest the city during the win- ter as well as the summer, they now, for the first time, received pay. Veii was a more beautiful city than Rome, and, as it was now without inhabitants, many of the Roman people wished to remove thither. At the persuasion of Camillus the project was abandon- ed; but the territory of Veii was divided among the Plebeians. Falerii was almost the only one of the Etruscan cities which had assisted Veii, and she was now exposed single-handed to the venge- ance of the Romans. It is related that, when Camillus appeared before Falerii, a schoolmaster of the town treacherously conduct- ed tlie sons of the noblest families into the Roman camp, but that Camillus, scorning the baseness of the man, ordered his arms to be tied behind him, and the boys to t!og him back into the town; w!i3renpon the inhabitants, overcome by such generosity, gave up their arms, and surrendered to the Romans (B.C. 394). Camillus was one of the proudest of the Patricians; and he now incurred the hatred of the Plebeians by calling upon every man to refund a tenth of the booty taken at Veii. because he had made a vow to consecrate to Apollo a tithe of the spoil. He was accused of having appropriated the great bronze gates at Veii, and was impeached by one of the Tribunes. Seeing that his condemnation was certain, he went into exile, praying as he left the walls that the Republic might soon have cause to regret hixn (B.C. 491). His prayer was heard, for the Gauls had already crossed the Apen- nines, and next year Rome was in ashes. Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus restored. CHAPTER VII. FROM THE CAPTURE OF ROME BY THE GAULS TO THE FINAL UNION OF THE TWO ORDERS. B.C. 390-3G7. THE Gauls or Celts were in ancient times spread over the great- er part of Western Europe. They inhabited Gaul and the British isles, and had in the time of the Tarquins crossed the Alps and taken possession of Northern Italy. But they now spread farther south, crossed the Apennines, and laid waste with fire and sword the provinces of Central Italy. Rome fell before them, and was reduced to ashes; but the details of its capture arc clearly legend- ary. The common story runs as follows: The Senones, a tribe of the Gauls, led by their chief Brennus, laid siege to Clusium, the powerful Etruscan city over which Lars Porsena once reigned. Such reputation had Rome gained through her conquests in Etruria, that Clnsium applied to her for aid (H.C. 391). The Senate sent three embassadors, sons of the chief pon- tiff, Fabius Amhustns, to warn the barbarians not to touch an ally of Rome. But the Gauls treated their message with scorn ; and the embassadors, forgetting their sacred character, fought in the Clusinc ranks. One of the Fabii slew with his own hands a Gallic chieftain, and was recognized while stiipping off his armor. Bren- 46 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. VII, BUS therefore sent to Rome to demand satisfaction. The Roman people not only refused to give it, but elected the three Fabii as Military Tribunes for the following year. On hearing of this in- sult, the Gauls broke up the siege of Clusium, and hastened south- ward toward Rome. All the inhabitants fled before them into the towns. They pursued their course without injuring any one, cry- ing to the guards upon the walls of the towns they passed, "Our way lies for Rome." On the news of their approach the Roman army hurried out of the city, and on the IGth of July (B.C. 390), a day ever after regarded as disastrous, they met the Gauls on the Allia, a small river which flows into the Tiber, on its left bank, about eleven miles from Rome. Brennus attacked the Romans on the flank, and threw them into confusion. A general panic seized them: they turned and fled. Some escaped across the Tiber to Veii, and a few reached Rome, but the greater number were slain by the Gauls. The loss at the Allia had been so great that enough men were not left to guard the walls of the city. It was therefore resolved that those in the vigor of their age should withdraw to the Capitol, taking with them all the provisions in the city; that the priests and Vestal Virgins should convey the objects of religious rever- ence to Ctere ; and that the rest of the population should disperse among the neighboring towns. But the aged senators, who had been Consuls or Censors, seeing that their lives were no longer of any service to the state, sat down in the forum on their curule thrones awaiting death. When the Gauls entered the city they found it desolate and deathlike. They marched on, without seeing a human being till they came to the forum. Here they beheld the aged senators sitting immovable, like beings of another world. For some time they gazed in awe at this strange sight, till at length one of the Gauls ventured to go up to M. Papirius and stroke his white beard. The old man struck him on the head with his ivory sceptre; whereupon the barbarian slew him, and all the rest were massacred. The Gauls now began plundering the city ; fires broke out in several quarters, and with the exception of a few houses on the Palatine, which the chiefs kept for their own resi< dence, the whole city was burnt to the ground. The Capitol was the next object of attack. There was only one steep way leading up to it, and all the assaults of the besiegers were easily repelled. They thereupon turned the siege into a blockade, and for seven months were encamped amid the ruins of Rome. But their numbers were soon thinned by disease, for they had entered Rome in the most unhealthy time of the year, when fevers have always prevailed. The failure of provisions obliged B.C. 300. CAPTURE OF ROME BY THE GAULS. 47 them to ravage the neighboring countries, the people of which be- gan to combine for defense against the marauders. Meantime the scattered Romans took courage. They collected at Veil, and here resolved to recall Camillus from banishment, and appoint him Dic- tator. In order to obtain the consent of the Senate, a daring youth, named Pontius Cominius, offered to swim across the Tiber and climb the Capitol. He reached the top unperceived by the enemy, obtained the approval of the Senate to the appointment of Camillus, and returned safely to Vcii. But next day some Gauls observed the traces of his steps, and in the dead of night they climbed up the same way. The foremost of them had already reached the top, unnoticed by the sentinels and the dogs, when the cries of some geese roused M. Manlius from sleep. These geese were sacred to Juno, and had been spared notwithstanding the gnawings of hunger ; and the Romans were now rewarded for their piety. M. Manlius thrust down the Gaul who had clambered up, and gave the alarm. The Capitol was thus saved ; and down to latest times M. Manlius was honored as one of the greatest heroes of the early Republic. Still no help came, and the Gauls remained before the Capitol. The Romans suffered from famine, and at length agreed to pay the barbarians 1 000 pounds of gold, on condition of their quitting the city and its territory. Brennus brought false weights, and, when the Romans exclaimed against this injustice, the Gallic chief threw his sword also into the scale, crying, " Woe to the vanquish- ed !" But at this very moment Camillus marched into the forum, ordered the gold to be taken away, and drove the Gauls out of the city. Another battle was fought on the road to Gabii, in which the Gauls were completely destroyed, and their lender Brennus taken prisoner. This tale, however, is an invention of Roman vanity. "We learn from other sources that the Gauls retreated be- cause their settlements in Northern Italy were attacked by the Ve- netians ; and there can be little doubt that their departure was hastened by a present of Roman gold. The Gauls frequently re- peated their inroads, and for many years to come were the constant dread of the Romans. When the Romans returned to the heap of ruins which was once their city their hearts sank within them. The people shrank from the expense and toil of rebuilding their houses, and loudly demand- ed that they should all remove to Veii, where the private dwellings and public buildings were still standing. But Camillus and the Patricians strongly urged them not to abandon the homes of their fathers, and they were at length persuaded to remain. The state granted bricks, and stones were fetched from Veii. Within a year 48 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. VIL the city rose from its ashes ; but the streets were narrow and crook- ed ; the houses were frequently built over the sewers ; and the city ton inued to show, down to the great fire of Nero, evident ir.ices of the haste and irregularity with which it had been rebuilt. Rome was now deprived of almost all her subjects, aiid her ter- ritory was reduced to nearly its original limits. The Latins and Hernicans dissolved the League with the Romans, and Avars broke out on every side. In the>e difficulties and dangers Camillus was the soul of the Republic. Again and again he led the Roman le- gions against their enemies, and always with success. The rapidi- ty with which the Romans recovered their power after so terrible a disaster would seem unaccountable but for the fact that the oth- er nations had also suffered greatly from the inroads of the Gauls, who still continued to ravage Central Italy. Two of their inva- sions of the Roman territory are commemorated by celebrated le- gends, which may be related here, though they belong to a later period. In B.C. 3GI the Gauls and Romans were encamped on either bank of the Arno. A gigantic Gaul stepped forth from the ranks and insultingly challenged a Roman knight. T. Manlius, a Ro- man youth, obtained permission from his general to accept the challenge, slew the giant, and took from the dead body the golden chain (torques) which the barbarian wore around his neck. His comrades gave him the surname of Torquatus, which he handed down to his descendants. In B.C. 349 another distinguished Roman family earned its sur- name from a single combat with a Gaul. Here again a Gallic warrior of gigantic size challenged any one of the Romans to sin- gle combat. His challenge was accepted by M. Valerius, upon whose helmet a raven perched ; and as they fought, the bird flew into the face of the Gaul, striking at him with its beak and Happing his wings. Thus Valerius slew the Gaul, and was called in conse- quence " Corvus," or the "Raven." It is now necessary to revert to the internal history of Rome. Great suffering and discontent prevailed. Returning to ruined homes and ravaged lands, the poor citizens had been obliged to borrow money to rebuild their houses and cultivate their farms. The law of debtor and creditor at Rome, as we have already seen, was very severe, and many unfortunate debtors were carried away to bondage. Under these circumstances, M. Manlius, the preserver of the Capitol, came forward as the patron of the poor. This dis- tinguished man had been bitterly disappointed in his claims to honor and gratitude. While Camillus, his personal enemy, who had shared in none of the dangers of the siege, was repeatedly B.C. 37G. THE UNION OF THE TWO ORDERS. 49 raised to the highest honors of the state, he, who had saved the Capitol, was left to languish in a private station. Neglected by his own order, Manlius turned to the Plebeians. One day he recognized in the forum a soldier who had served with him in the field, and whom a creditor was carrying away in fetters. Manlius paid his debt upon the spot, and swore that, as long as he had n single ]K>und, he woukl not allow any Roman to be imprisoned fur debt. He sold a large part of his property, and applied the pro- ceeds to the liberation of his fellow-citizens from bondage. Sup- ported now by the Plebeians, he came forward as the accuser of his own order, and charged them with appropriating to their own use the gold which had been raised to ransom the city from the Gauls. The Patricians in return accused him, as they had ac- cused Sp. Cassius, of aspiring to the tyranny. When he was brought to trial before the Comitia of the Centuries in the Campus Martins, he proudly showed the spoils of thirty warriors whom he had slain, the forty military distinctions which he had won in bat- tle, and the innumerable scars upon his breast, and then turning toward the Capitol he prayed the immortal gods to remember the man who had saved their temples from destruction. After such an appeal, his condemnation wns impossible, and his enemies therefore contrived to break up the assembly. Shortly afterward he was arraigned on the same charges before the Comitia of the Curies in the Peteline Grove. Here he was at once condemned, and was hurled from the Tarpeian Rock. His house, which was on the Capitol, was razed to the ground (i?.c. 384). The death of Manlius, however, was only a temporary check to the Plebeian cause. A few years afterward the contest came to a crisis. In n.r. 37<3 C. Licinius Stolo and his kinsman L. Sextius, being Tribunes of the Tlebs, determined to give the Plebeians an equal share in the political power, to deprive the Patricians of the exclusive use of the public land, and to remove the present distress of the Plebeians. For this pur]>ose they brought forward three laws, which are celebrated in history under the name of THE LJ- CINIAX ROGATIONS.* These were : I. That in future Consuls, and not Military Tribunes, should be ap- pointed, and that one of the two Consuls must be a Plebeian. II. That no citizen should possess more than 500 jugeraf cf the public land, nor should feed upon the public pastures more than 100 head of large and 500 of small cattle, under penalty of a heavy fine. A RogaVo differed from a Lex, as a Kill from an Act of Parliament. A I!o- gatio was'a law submitted to the assembly of the people, nnd only became a Lex when enacted by them. t A Jtifjentm \va? rather more titan half an acre. D 50 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. VII III That the interest already paid for borrowed money should be deducted from the principal, and that the remainder should be repaid in three yearly instalments. These great reforms naturally excited the most violent opposi- tion, and the Patricians induced some of the Plebeians to put their veto upon the measures of their colleagues. But Licinius and Sextius were not to be baffled in this way, and they exercised their veto by preventing the Comitia of the Centuries from electing any magistrates for the next year. Hence no Consuls, Military Tri- bunes, Censors, or Quaestors could be appointed ; and the Tribunes of the Plebs and the ^Ediles, who were elected by the Comitia of the Tribes, were the only magistrates in the state. For five years did this state of things continue. C. Licinius and L. Sextius were re-elected annually, and prevented the Comitia of the Centuries from appointing any magistrates. At the end of this time they al- lowed Military Tribunes to be chosen in consequence of a war with the Latins ; but so far were they from yielding any of their de- mands, that to their former Rogations they now added another-. That the care of the Sibylline books, instead of being intrusted to two men (duumviri), both Patricians, should be given to ten men (decemviri), half of whom should be Plebeians. Five years more did the struggle last ; but the firmness of the Tribunes at length prevailed. In B.C. 3G7 the Licinian Rogations were passed, and L. Sextius was elected the first Plebeian Consul for the next year. But the Patricians made one last effort to evade the law. By the Roman constitution, the Consuls, after being elect- ed by the Comitia Centuriata. received the Imperium, or sovereign power, from the Comitia Curiata. The Patricians thus had it in their power to nullify the election of the Centuries by refusing the Imperi'im. This they did when L. Sextius was elected Consul; and they made Camillus, the great champion of their order, Dicta- tor, to support them in their new struggle. But the old hero saw that it was too late, and determined to bring about a reconciliation between the two orders. A compromise was effected. The Im- perium was conferred upon L. Sextius ; but the judicial duties were taken away from the Consuls, and given to a new magistrate called Prwtor. Camillus vowed to the goddess Concord a temple for his guccess. The long struggle between the Patricians and Plebeians was thus brought to a virtual close. The Patricians still clung obstinately to the exclusive privileges which they still possessed ; but when the Plebeians had once obtained a share in the Consulship, it was evi- dent that their participation in the other offices of the state could not be much longer delayed. We may therefore anticipate the B.C. 339. PUBLILIAN LAWS. 31 course of events by narrating in this place that the first Plebeian "Dictator was C. Marcius liutilus in B.C. 35G ; that the same man was the first Plebeian Censor five years afterward (B.C. 351) ; that the Proctorship was thrown open to the Plebeians in B.C. 33G ; and that the Lex O^ulnia in B.C. 300, which increased the number of the Pontitfs from four to eight, and that of the Augurs from four to nine, also enacted that four of the Pontiffs and five of the Augurs should be taken from the Plebeians. About thirty years after the Licinian Rogations, another import- ant reform, which abridged still farther the privileges of the Patri- cians, was effected by the PDBLILIAK LAWS, proposed by the Die- tator Q. Publilius Philo in B.C. 339. These were: I. That the Resolutions of the Plebs should be binding on all the Quirites,* thus giving to the Plebiscita passed at the Comitia. of the Tribes the same force as the Laws passed at the Comitia of the Centuries. II. That all laws passed at the Comitia of the Centuries should re- ceive previously the sanction of the Curies ; so that the Curies were now deprived of all power over the Centuries. III. That one of the Censors must be a Plebeian. The first of these laws seems to be little more than a re-enact- ment of one of the Valerian and Horatian laws, passed after the expulsion of the Decemvirs ;f but it is probable that the latter had never boon really carried into effect. Even the Publilian Law upon this subject seems to have been evaded ; and it was accordingly enacted again by the Dictator Q. Hortcnsius in B.C. 286. In this year the last Secession of the Plebeians took place, and the LKX HORTENSIA is ahvays mentioned as the law which gave to Plebis- cita passed at the Comitia of the Tribes the full power of laws bind- ing upon the whole nation. From this time we hear of no moro civil dissensions till the times of the Gracchi, a hundred and fifty years afterward, and the Lex Ilortensia may therefore be regarded as the termination of the long struggle between the two orders. * Ut pleltscita oninas Quirites tencrent. tSee p. -10. 1'iiins at Capua. CHAPTER VIII. FROM THE LICINIAN ROGATIONS TO THE END OF THE SAMNITE AVARS. B.C. 3G 7-290. UNITED at home, the Romans were row prepared to carry on their foreign wars with more vigor; and their conquests of the Samnites and Latins made them the virtual masters of Italy. But the years which immediately followed the Licinian laws were times of great suffering. A pestilence raged in Rome, which carried off many of the most distinguished men, and among others the aged Camillas (B.C. 362). The Tiber overflowed its banks, the city was shaken by earthquakes, and a yawning chasm opened in the forum. The soothsayers declared that the gulf could never be filled up ex* J.C. 313-290. THE SAMNITES. 53 cept by throwing into it that which Rome held most valuable. The tale runs that, when every one was doubting what the gods could mean, a noble youth named M. Curtius came forward, and, declar- ing that Rome possessed nothing so valuable as her brave citizens, mounted his steed and leaped into the abyss in full armor, where- upon the earth closed over him. This event is assigned to the year 3G2 B.C. During the next few years the Gauls renewed their inroads, of which we have already spoken, and in the course of which Manliua Torquatus and Valerius Corvus gained such glory. The Romans steadily extended their dominion over the southern part of Etruria and the country of the Volscians, and the alliance with the Latins was renewed. Fifty years had elapsed since the capture of the city by the Gauls, and Rome was now strong enough to enter into a con- test with the most formidable enemy which her arms had yet en- countered. The SAMNITES were at the height of their power, ;ind the contest between them and the Romans was virtually for the su- premacy of I tal v. The Samnites, us we have already seen, were a people of Sabine origin, and had emigrated to the country which they inhabited at a comparatively late period." They consisted of four different tribes or cantons, the Pcntri, Hirpini, Caraceni, and Caudini, of whom the two former were the most important. They inhabited that part of the Apennines which lies between Campania and Lueania, but they were not contented with their mountain- homes, and overran the rich plains which lav at their feet. They became the masters of Campania and Lueania, and spread them- selves almost to the southern extremity of Italy. But the Sam- nites of Campania and Lueania had in course of time broken off all connection with the parent nation, and sometimes were engaged in hostilities with the latter. It was a contest of this kind that led to tin. 1 war between the Romans and the Samnites of the Apennines. On the bor.kvs of Campania and Samnium dwelt a people, called the Sidicini, \vho had hitherto preserved thei* independence. Be- ing attacked by the Samnites, this ] eoplc implored the assistance of the Cunpanians, which was readily granted. Thereupon the Samnites turned their arms against the Campanians, and, after occupying Mount Tifata, which overlooks the city of Capua, they descended into the plain, and defeated the Campanians in a pitch- ed battle at the very gates of Capua. The Campanians, being shut up within the city, now applied for assistance to Rome, and offered to place Capua in their hands. The Romans had only a few years previously concluded an alliance with the Samnites; but the bait of the richest city and the most fertile soil in Italy was irresistible, nmi they resolved to comply with the, request. Thus began the 54 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. VIII. Samnite Wars, which, with a few intervals of peace, lasted 63 years. FIRST SAMNITE WAR, B.C. 343-341. The Romans commenced the war by sending two consular armies against the Samnites ; and the first battle between the rival nations was fought at tho foot of Mount Gaurus, which lies about three miles from Cumai. The Sanmites were defeated with great loss ; and it has been justly re- marked that this battle may be regarded as one of the most mem- orable in history, since it was a kind of omen of the ultimate issue of the great contest which had now begun between the Samnites and Romans for the sovereignty of Italy. The Romans gained two other decisive victories, and both consuls entered the city in triumph. But two causes prevented the Romans from prosecuting their success. In the first place, the Roman army, which had been wintering in Capua, rose in open mutiny ; and the poorer Pie*- beians in the city, who were oppressed by debt, left Rome and join- ed the mutineers. In the second place, the increasing disaffection of the Latins war.ied the' Romans to husband their resources for another and more terrible struggle. The Romans, therefore, abandoning the Sidicini and Companions, concluded a treaty of peace and alliance with the Samnites in n.c. 341, so that in the great Latin war, which broke out in the following year, the Sam- nites fought on the side of the Romans. THE LATIX WAR, B.C. 340-338. The Latins had, as already stated, renewed their league with Rome in u.c.JtoG, and conse- quently their troops had fought along with the Romans in the war against the Samnites. But the increasing power of Rome excited their alarm ; and it became evident to them that, though nominal- ly on a footing of equality, they were, in reality, becoming subject to Rome. This feeling was confirmed by the treaty of alliance which the Romans had formed with the Samnites. The Latins, there- fore, determined to bring matters to a crisis, and sent two Traitors, who were their chief magistrates, to propose to the Romans that the tw r o nations should henceforth form one state ; that half of the state should consist of Latins, and that one of the two Consuls should be chosen from Latium. These requests excited the great- est indignation at Rome, and were rejected with the utmost scorn. The Senate met in the Temple of Jupiter, in the Capitol, to receive the Latin deputation, and, after hearing their proposals, the Con- sul, T. Manlitis Torquatus, the same who had slain the Gaul in single combat, declared that, if the Republic should cowardly yield to these demands, he would come into the senate-house sword in hand and cut down the first Latin he saw there. The tale goes on to say that in the discussion which followed, when both parties B.C. 340. THE LATIN WAK. 55 were excited by anger, the Latin Praetor defied the Roman Jupiter ; that thereupon an a\vful peal of thunder shook the building ; and that, as the impious man hurried down the steps from the temple, he fell from top to bottom, and lay there a corpse. War was now declared, and the most vigorous efforts were made on both sides. The contest was to decide whether Rome should become a Latin town, or the Latins be subject to Rome. The Ro- mans had elected to the consulship two of their most distinguished men. The Patrician Consul was, as already mentioned, T. Man- lius Torquatus ; his Plebeian colleague was P. Decius Mus, who had gained great renown in the recent war against the Samnites. The two Consuls marched through Samnium into Campania, and threatened Capua, thus leaving Rome exposed to the attacks of the Latins. But the Consuls foresaw that the Latins would not aban- don Capua, their great acquisition; and the event proved their wisdom. The contest was thus withdrawn from the territory of Rome and transferred to Campania, where the Romans could re- ceive assistance from the neighboring country of their Samnite al- lies. It was at the foot of Mount Vesuvius that the two armies met, and here the battle was fought which decided the contest. It was like a civil war. The soldiers of the two armies spoke the same language, had fought by each others' sides, and Mere well known to one another. Under these circumstances, the Consuls published a proclamation that no Roman should engage in single combat with a Latin on pain of death. But the son of Torquatus, provoked by the insults of a Tusculan officer, accepted his chal- lenge, slew his adversary, and carried the bloody spoils in triumph to his father. The Consul had within him the heart of Brutus ; he would not pardon this breach of discipline, and ordered the un- happy youth to be beheaded by the lictor in the presence of the as- sembled aimy. In the night before the battle a vision appeared to each Consul, announcing that the general of one side and the army of the other were doomed to destruction. Both agreed that the one whose wing first began to waver should devote himself and the army of the enemy to the gods of the lower world. Decius commanded the left, wing ; and when it began to give way, he resolved to fulfill his AOW. Calling the Pontifex Maximus, he repeated after him the form of words by which he devoted himself and the army of the enemy to the gods of the dead and the mother earth ; then leaping upon his horse, he rushed into the thickest of the fight, and was slain. The Romans gained a signal victory. Scarcely a fourth part of the Latins escaped (B.C. 340). This victory made the Romans masters of Campania, and the ii HiSTORY OF ROME. CHAI-. VIIL Latins did not dare to meet them again in the field. The war continued two years longer, each city confining itself to the defense of its own walls, and hoping to receive help from others in case of an attack. But iipon the capture of Pedum in B.C. 338 all the Latins laid down their arms, and garrisons were placed in their towns. The Romans were now absolute masters of Latium, and their great object was to prevent the Latin cities from forming any union again. For this purpose not only were all general assem- blies forbidden, but, in order to keep the cities completely isolated, the citizens of one town could not marry or make a legal contract of bargain or sale with another.* Tibur and Prceneste, the two most powerful cities of the League, which had taken the most act- ive part in the war, were deprived of a portion of their land, but were allowed to retain a nominal independence, preserving their own laws, and renewing from time to time their treaties with Rome. The inhabitants of several other towns, such as Tusculum andLa- nuvitmi, received the Roman franchise ; their territory was incor- porated in that of the Republic ; and two new tribes were created to carry these arrangements into effect. Many of the most distin- guished Romans sprung from these Latin towns. Twelve years elapsed between the subjugation of Latium and the commencement of the Second Samnite War. During this time the Roman arms continued to make steady progress. One of their most important conquests was that of the Volscian town of Priver- num in B.C. 329, from which time the Volscians, so long the for- midable enemies of Rome, disappear as an independent nation. The extension of the Roman power naturally awakened the jeal- ousy of the Samnitcs ; and the assistance rendered by them to the Greek cities of Paheopolis and Neapolis was the immediate occa- sion of the Second Samnite War. These two cities were colonies of the neighboring Cumixj, and were situated only five miles from each other. The position of Pahcopolis, or the " Old City," is un- certain ; but Neapolis, or the "New City," stands on the site of a part of the modern Naples. The Romans declared war against the two cities in B.C. 327, and sent the Consul Q. Publilius Philo to re- duce them to subjection. The Greek colonists had previously form- ed an alliance with the Samnitcs, and now received powerful Sam- nite garrisons. Publilius encamped between the cities: and as he did not succeed in taking them before his year of office expired, he was continued in the command with the title of Proconsul, the first time that this office was created. At the beginning of the follow- ing year Palceopolis was taken ; and Ncapolis only escaped the * According to the Roman expression, the Jus Conmibii and Jus Cooimercii tvere forbirlrlen. B.C. 320-304. SECOND SAMNITE WAR. 57 same fate by concluding an alliance with the Romans. Meanu hiie the Romans had declared war against the Samnites. Si.coND on GIU-AT SAMNITE WAR, B.C. 32G-304. The Second Samnite War lasted 22 years, and was by far the most important of the three wars which this people waged with Rome. During the first five years (n.c. 320-322) the Roman arms were generally successful. The Samnitcs became so disheartened that they sued for peace, but obtained only a truce for a year. It was during this period that the well-known quarrel took place between L. Papirius Cursor and Q. Fabius Maximus, the two most celebrated Roman generals of the time, who constantly led the armies of the Republic to victory. In u.c. 325 L. Papirius was Dictator, and Q. Fabius his Master of the Horse. Recalled to Rome by some defect in the auspices, the Dictator left the army in charge of Fabius, but with strict orders not to venture upon an engagement. Compelled or provoked by the growing boldness of the enemy, Fabius attacked and defeated them with great loss. But this victory was no exten- uation for his oficnse in the eyes of the Dictator. Papirius has- tened back to the camp, burning with indignation that his com- mands had been disobeyed, and ordered his lictors to seize Fabius and put him to death. The soldiers, whom Fabius had led to vic- tory, rose in his defense ; and in the night he escaped to Rome, to implore the protection of the Senate. He was stating the case to the Fathers, when Papi; ins entered the senate-bouse, followed by his lictors, and demanded that the offender should be given up for execution. But the Senate, the people, and the aged father of .Max- imus interceded so strongly for his life, that the Dictator was obliged to give way and to grant an ungracious pardon. The year's truce had not expired when the Samnitcs again took up arms, and for the next seven years (H.C. 321-315) the balance of success inclined to their side. This, appears to have been mainly owing to the military abilities of their general C. Pontius, who de- serves to be ranked among the chief men of antiquity. In the first year of his command he inflicted upon the Romans one of the scver- 3st blows they ever sustained in the whole course of their history. In 15. c. 321 the two Consuls, T. Vcturius and Sp. Postumius, marched into Samninm bv the road from Capua to Beneveritum. Near the town of Camlium they entered the celebrated pass called the CAUDINK FORKS (Furcuhe Caudinte). It consisted of two naiv row defiles or gorges, between which was a tolerably spacious ph;ii!, but shut in on each side by mountains. The Romans, thinking the Sanmites to be far distant, had marched through the first pass and the plain ; but when they came to the second they found it bh>< krd up by works and trunks of trees, so as to be quite in;]-.-:- 58 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. VIII. Retracing their steps to the pass by which they had entered, they found that the enemy had meantime taken possession of this also. They were thus blocked up at either end, and, after making vain attempts to force their way through, were obliged to surrender at discretion. Thus both Consuls and four legions fell into the hands of the Samnites. C. Pontius made a merciful use of his victory. He agreed to dismiss them in safety upon their promising to restore the ancient alliance on equal terms between the two nations, and to give up all the places which they had conquered during the war. The Consuls and the other superior officers swore to these terms in the name of the Republic, and six hundred Roman knights were given as hostages. The whole Roman army was now allowed to depart, and each Roman soldier marched out singly under the yoke. When the news of this disaster reached Rome the Senate refused to ratify the peace, and resolved that the two Consuls and all the officers who had sworn to the peace should be delivered up to the Samnites as persons who had deceived them. They were conduct- ed to Caudium by a Fctialis; and when they appeared before the tribunal of C. Pontius, Postumius, with superstitious folly, struck the Fetialis with his foot, saying that he was now a Samnite citizen, and that war might be renewed with justice by the Romans, since a Samnite had insulted the sacred envoy of the Roman people. But Pontius refused to accept the persons who were thus oifercd, and told them, if they wished to nullify the treaty, to send back the army to the Caudine Forks. Thus Postumius and his companions returned to Rome, and the 600 knights were alone left in the hands of the Samnites. The disaster of Caudium shook the fate of many of the Roman allies, and the fortune of war was for some years in favor of the Samnites. But in u.c. 314 the tide of success again turned, and the decisive victory of the Consuls in that year opened the way into the heart of Samnium. From this time the Romans were uniform- ly successful ; and it seemed probable that the war was drawing to a close, when the Etruscans created a powerful diversion by de- claring war against Rome in i?.c. 311. But the energy and abili- ty of Q. Fabius Maximus averted this new danger. He boldly cur- ried the war into the very heart of Etruria, and gained a decisive victory over the forces of the League. The Samnites also were re- peatedly defeated ; and after the capture of Bovianum, the chief city of the Pentri, they were compelled to sue for peace. It was granted them in B.C. 304, on condition of their acknowledging the supremacy of Rome. At the conclusion of the Second Samnite War the ^quians and B.C. 298-290. THIRD SAMNITE WAR, 59 Hcrnicans were reduced to subjection after a brief struggle. A part of the ./Equian territory was incorporated in that of Rome by the addition of two new tribes, and two colonies were planted in the other portion. The Marsi, Marrucini, Peligni, and other nations of Central Italy, entered into a league with the Romans on equal terms. Thus, in B.C. 300, the power of Rome seemed firmly estab- lished in Central Italy. But this very power awakened the jeal- ousy of the surrounding nations, and the Samnites exerted them- selves to form a new and formidable coalition. The Etruscans and Umbrians agreed to make Avar against Rome, and called in the as- sistance of the Senonian Gauls. TIIIKD SAMXITE WAR, B.C. 298-290. As soon as the Etruscans and Umbrians were engaged with Rome, the Samnites invaded Lu- cania. The Lucanians invoked the assistance of the Romans, who forthwith declared war against the Samnites. The Republic had now to contend at one and the same time against the Etruscans, Umbrians, Gauls, and Samnites ; but she carried on the struggle with the utmost energy, attacking the Etruscans, Umbrians, and Gauls in the north, and the Samnites in the south. At length, in r..r. L J !r>, the Samnites joined their confederates in Umbria. In this country, near the town of Sentinum, a desperate battle was fought, which decided the fortune of the war. The two Roman Consuls were the aged Q. Fabius Maximus and P. Becius Mus. The victory was long doubtful. The wing commanded by Decius was giving way before the terrible onset of the Gauls, when he de- termined to imitate the example of his father, and to devote him- self and the enemy to destruction. His death gave fresh courage to his men, and Fabius gained a complete and decisive victory. Gellius Egnatius, the Samnitc general, who had taken the most active part in forming the coalition, was slain. But, though the League was thus broken up, the Samnites continued the struggle for five years longer. During this period C. Pontius, who had de- feated the Romans at the Caudine Forks, again appeared, after twenty-seven years, as the leader of the Samnites, but was defeat- ed by Q. Fabius -Maximus with great loss and taken prisoner. Be- ing carried to Rome, he was put to death as the triumphal car of the victor ascended the Capitol (B.C. 292). This shameful act has been justly branded as one of the greatest stains on the Roman an- nals. Two years afterward the Samnites were unable to continue any longer the hopeless struggle, and became the subjects of Rome. The third and last Samnite war was brought to a close in B.C. 290. Coin of Pyrrhofl. CHAPTER IX. FROM THE CONCLUSION OF THE SAMNITE WAR TO THE SUBJUGA- TION OF ITALY. B.C. 290-265. TEN years elapsed from the conclusion of the third Samnite war to the arrival of Pyrrhus in Italy. During this time the Etruscans and Gauls renewed the war in the north, but were defeated with great slaughter near the Lake Vadimo. This decisive battle ap- pears to have completely crushed the Etruscan power; and it in- flicted so severe a blow upon the Gauls that we hear no more of their ravages for the next sixty years. In the south the Lucanians also rose against Rome. The exten- sion of the Roman dominion in the south of the peninsula had brought the state into connection with the Greek cities, which at one period were so numerous and powerful as to give to this part of Italy the name of Magna Graecia.* Many of these cities had now fallen into decay through internal dissensions and the con- quests of the Lucanians and other Sabellian tribes; but Tarentum, originally a Lacedaemonian colony, still maintained her former pow- er and splendor. TlieTarentines naturally regarded with extreme jealousy the progress of the Roman arms in the south of Italy, and had secretly instigated the Etruscans and Lucanians to form a new coalition against Rome. But the immediate cause of the war be- tween the Lucanians and Romans was the assistance which the latter had rendered to the Greek city of Thurii. Being attacked by the Lucanians, the Thurians applied to Rome for aid, and the Consul C. Fabricius not only relieved Thurii, but defeated the Lu- canians and their allies in several engagements (u.c. 282). Upon the departure of Fabricius a Roman garrison was left in Thurii. The only mode now of maintaining communication between Rome and Thurii was by sea ; but this was virtually forbidden by a treaty See p. 6. PYRRHUS. C1 which the Romans had made with Tarcntum nearly twenty years before, in which treaty it was stipulated that no Roman ships of war should pass the Lacinian promontory. But circumstances were now changed, and the Senate determined that their vessels should no longer be debarred from the Gulf of Tarentum. There was a small squadron often ships in those seas under the command of L.Valerius ; and one day, when the Tarentines were assembled in the theatre, which looked over the sea, they saw the Roman squadron sailing toward their harbor. This open violation of the treaty seemed a premeditated insult, and a demagogue urged the people to take summary vengeance. They rushed down to the harbor, quickly manned some ships, and gained an easy victory over the small Roman squadron. Only half made their escape, four were sunk, one taken, and Valerius himself killed. After this the Tarentines marched against Tliurii, compelled the inhabitants to dismiss the Roman garrison, and then plundered the town. The Senate sent an embassy to Tarentum to complain of these outrages and to demand satisfaction. L. Postumius, who was at the head of the embassy, was introduced with his colleagues into the theatre, to state to the assembled people the demands of the Ro- man Senate. He began to address them in Greek, but his mis- takes in the language were received with peals of laughter from the thoughtless mob. Unable to obtain a hearing, much less an an- swer, Postumius was leaving the theatre, when a drunken buffoon rushed up to him and sullied his white robe in the most disgusting manner. The whole theatre rang with shouts of laughter and clapping of hands, which became louder and louder when Postu- mius held up his sullied robe and showed it to the people. "Laugh on now," he cried, "but this robe shall be washed in torrents of your blood." War was now inevitable. The luxurious Tarentines sent an em- bassy to Pyrrlms, king of Epirus, begging him, in the name of all the Italian Greeks, to cross over into Italy in order to conduct the war against the Romans. They told him that they only wanted a general, and that all the nations of Southern Italy would flock to his standard. Pyrrhus needed no persuasion to engage in an en- terprise which realized the earliest dreams of his ambition. The conquest of Italy would naturally lead to the sovereignty of Sicily and Africa, and he would then be aMe to return to Greece with the united forces of the West to overcome his rivals and reign as master of the world. But as he would not trust the success of his enterprise to the valor and fidelity of Italian troops, he began to make preparations to carry over a powerful army. Meantime he sent Milo, one of his generals, with a detachment of 3000 men, to 62 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. IX. garrison the citadel of Tarentum. Pyrrhus hims.elf crossed over from Epirns toward the end of B.C. 281, taking with him 20,000 foot, 3000 horse, and 20 elephants. Upon reaching Tarentum he began to make preparations to carry on the war with activity. The Tarentines s soon found they had obtained a master rather than an ally. He shut up the thea- tre and all other public places, and compelled their young men to serve in his ranks. Notwithstanding all his activity, the Romans were first in the field. The Consul M.^alejjins Lacvinus marched into Lucania; but as the army of PyrtflfM was inferior to that of the Romans, he attempted to gain time by negotiation "in order that he might be joined by his Italian allies. He accordingly wrote to the Consul, offering to arbitrate between Rome and the Italian states; but Lajvinus bluntly told him to mind his own business and retire to Epirns. Fearing to remain inactive any longer, although he was not yet joined by his allies, Pyrrhus marched out against the Romans with his own troops and the Tarentines. He took up his position between the towns of Pandosia and Heraclea, on the River Siris. The Romans, who were encamped on the other side of the river, were the first to begin the battle. They crossed the river, and were immediately attacked by ihe cavalry of Pynhue, who led them to the charge in person, and distinguished himself as usual by the most daring acts of valor. The Romans, however, bravely sustained the attack ; and Pyrrhus, finding that his cavalry could not decide the day, ordered his infantry to advance. The battle was still contested most furiously : eeven times did both armies ad- vance and retreat ; and it was not till Pyrrhus brought forward his elephants, which bore down every thing before them, that the Ro- mans took to flight, leaving their camp to the conqueror (B.C. 280). This battle taught Pyrrhus the difficulty of the enterprise he had undertaken. Before the engagement, when he saw the Romans forming their line as they crossed the river, he said to his officers, " In war, at any rate, these barbarians are not barbarous ;" and aft- erward, as he saw the Roman dead lying upon the field with all their wounds in front, he exclaimed, u lf these were my soldiers, or if I were their general, we should conquer the world." And, though his loss had been inferior to that of the Romans, still so large a number of his officers and best troops had fallen, that he said, "Another such victory, and I must return to Epirus alone." He therefore resolved to avail himself of this victory to conclude, if possible, an advantageous peace. He sent his minister Cineas to Rome Avith the proposal that the Romans should recognize the in- dependence of the Greeks in Italy, restore to the Samnites, Luca- nians, Apulhms, and Bruttians all the possessions which they had B.C. 280. EMBASSY TO PYRRHUS. FABRICIUS. 63 lost in war, and make peace with himself and the Tarentines. As soon as peace was concluded on these terms he promised to return all the Roman prisoners without ransom. Cineas, whose persua- sive eloquence was said to have won more towns for Pyrrhus than his arms, neglected no means to induce the Romans to accept these terms. The prospects of the Republic seemed so dark and threat- ening that many members of the Senate thought it would be more prudent to comply with the demands of the king ; and this party would probably have carried the day had it not been for the patri- otic speech of the aged Ap. Claudius Caucus, who denounced the idea of a peace with a victorious foe with such effect that the Sen- ate declined the proposals of the king, and commanded Cineas to quit Rome the same day. Cineas returned to Pyrrhus, and told him he must hope for iioth' ing from negotiation ; that the city was like a temple of the gods, and the Senate an assembly of kings. 1'yrrhus now advanced by rapid marches toward Rome, ravaging the country as he went along, and without encountering any serious opposition. He at length arrived at Prseneste, which fell into his hands. He was now only 24 miles from Rome, and his outposts advanced six miles farther. Another march would have brought him under the walls of the city ; but at this moment he learned that peace was concluded with the Etruscans, and that the other Consul had returned with his army to Rome. All hope of compelling the Romans to accept the peace was now gone, and he therefore resolved to retreat. He retired slowly into Campania, and from thence withdrew into win- ter quarters to Tarentum. As soon as the armies were quartered for the winter, the Romans sent an embassy to Pyrrhus to negotiate the ransom or exchange of prisoners. The embassadors were received by Pyrrhus in the most distinguished manner ; and his interviews with C. Fabricius, who was at the head of the embassy, form one of the most famous stories in Roman history. Fabricius was a fine specimen of the sturdy Roman character. He cultivated his farm with his own hands, and, like his contemporary Curius, was celebrated for his in- corruptible integrity. The king attempted in vain to work upon his cupidity and his fears. He steadily refused the large sums of money offered by Pyrrhus; and when an elephant, concealed be- hind him by a curtain, waved his trunk over his head, Fabricius re- mained unmoved. Such respect did his conduct inspire, that Pyr- rhus attempted to persuade him to enter into his service and accom- pany him to Greece. The object of the embassy failed. The king refused to exchange the prisoners ; but, to show them his trust in their honor, he allowed them to go to Rome in order to celebrate the 64 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. IX Saturnalia, stipulating that they were to return to Tarentum if the Senate would not accept the terms which lie had previously offered through Cincas. The Senate remained firm in their resolve, and nil the prisoners returned to Pyrrhus, the punishment of death hav- ing been denounced against those who should remain in the citv. In the following year (H.C. 279) the war was renewed, and a bat- tle was fought near Asculnm. The Romans fled to their camp, \vhich was so near to the iield of battle that not more than 6000 "ell, while Pyrrhus lost more than half this number. The victory yielded Pyrrhns little or no advantage, and he was obliged to retire ID Tarentum for the winter without effecting any thing more during (he campaign. In the last battle, as well as in the former, the brunt of the action had fallen almost exclusively upon his Greek troops ; and the state of Greece, which this year was overrun by the Gauls, made it hopeless for him to expect any re-enforcements from Epirus. He was therefore unwilling to hazard his surviving Greeks by another campaign with the Romans, and accordinglv lent a ready ear to the invitations of the Greeks in Sicily, who begged him to con:c to their assistance against the Carthaginians. It was necessary, however, first to suspend hostilities with the Romans, who were likewise anxious to get rid of so formidable an opponent, that they might complete the subjugation of Southern Italy without farther interruption. AYhen both parties had the same wishes it was not difficult to find a fair pretext for bringing the war to a con- clusion. This was afforded at the beginning of the following year (B.C. 278) by one of the servants of Pyrrhus deserting to the Ro- mans, and proposing to the Consuls to poison his master. They sent back the deserter to the king, saying that they abhorred a vic- tory gained by treason. Thereupon Pyrrhus, to show his gratitude, sent Cincas to Rome with all the Roman prisoners, without ransom and without conditions ; and the Romans granted him a truce. Leaving Milo with part of his troops in possession of Tarentum, Pyrrhus now crossed over into Sicily. He remained there upward of two years. At first he met with brilliant success, and deprived the Carthaginians of a great part of the island. Subsequently. however, he received a severe repulse in an attempt which he made npon the impregnable town of Lilybannn. The fickle Greeks now began to form cabals and plots against him. Tin's led to retalia- tion on his part, and he soon became as anxious to abandon the isl- and as he had been before to leave Italy. Accordingly, when his Italian allies again begged him to come to their assistance, he read- ily complied with their request, and arrived in Italy in the autumn of B.C. 27G. Hi? troops were now almost the same in number as when he first landed in Italy, but very different in quality. Tho B.C.274. DEPARTURE OF PYRRI1US FROM ITALY, 65 faithful Epirots had for the most part fiillcn, and his present soldiers consisted chiefly of mercenaries, whom he had levied in Italy. One of his first operations was the recovery of Locri, which had revolt- ed to the Romans ; and as he here found himself in great diflicul- tiss for want of money to pay his troops, he was induced to take possession of the treasures of the Temple of Proserpine in that town; but the ships conveying the money were wrecked. This circumstance deeply affected the mind of PyiThus; he ordered the treasures which were saved to be restored to the temple, and from this time became haunted by the idea tliat the wrath of Proserpine was pursuing him, and dragging him down to ruin. The following year (B.C. 274) closed the career of Pyirhus in Italy. The Consul M\ Curius marched into Samnium, and his colleague into Lucania. Pyrrhus advanced against Curius, who \vas encamped in the neighborhood of Beneventum, and resolved to fight with him before he was joined by his colleague. As Curius did not wish to risk a battle with his own army alone, Pyrrhus planned a night-attack upon his camp. But he miscalculated the time and the distance ; the torches burnt out, the men missed their way, and it was already broad daylight when he reached the heights above the Roman camp. Still their arrival was quite unexpected 4 but, as a battle was now inevitable, Curius led out his men. The troops of Pyrrhus, exhausted by fatigue, were easily put to the rout; two elephants were killed and eight more taken. Encouraged by this success, Curius no longer hesitated to meet th-e king in the open plain, and gained a decisive victory. Pyrrhus arrived at Ta- rentum with only a few horsemen. Shortly afterward lie crowed over to Greece, leaving Milo with a garrison at Tarentum. Two years afterward he pcrisl^ed in an attack upon Argos, ingloriously slain by a tile hurled by a woman from the roof of a house. The departure of Pyrrhus left the Lucanians and other Italian tribes exposed to the full power of Rome. They nevertheless con- tinued the hopeless struggle a little longer; but in B.C. 272 Ta- rentum fell into the hands of Rome, and in a few years afterward every nation in Italy, to the south of the Macra and the Rubicon, owned the supremacy of Rome. She had now become one of the first powers in the ancient world. The defeat of Pyrrhus attract- ed the attention of the nations of the East; and in B.C. 273, Ptol- emy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, sent an embassy to Rome, and concluded a treaty with the Republic. The dominion which Rome had acquired by her arms was con- firmed by her policy. She pursued the same system which she had adopted upon the subjugation of Latium, keeping the cities iso- lated from one another, but at the same lime allowing them to E CG HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. IX. manage their own affairs. The population of Italy was divided into three classes. Gives Romani, Nomen Latimini, and Socii. I. CIVES ROMANI, or ROMAN CITIZENS. These consisted: (l.j Of the citizens of the thirty-three Tribes into which the Roman territory was now divided, and which extended north of the Tiber a little beyond Veii, and southward as far as the Liris ; though even in this district there were some towns, such as Tibur and Praeneste, "which did not possess the Roman franchise. (2.) Of the citizens of Roman colonies planted in different parts of Italy. (3.) Of the citizens of municipal towns upon whom the Roman franchise was conferred. In some cases the Roman franchise was granted with- out the right of voting in the Comitia (civltas sine suffi-ayio'), but in course of time this right also was generally conceded. II. NOMEN LATINUM, or the LATIN NAME. This term was ap- plied to the colonies founded by Rome which did not enjoy the rights of Roman citizenship, and which stood in the same position with regard to the Roman state as had been formerly occupied by the cities of the Latin League. The name originated at a period when colonies were actually sent out in common by the Romans and Latins, but similar colonies continued to be founded by the Romans alone long after the extinction of the Latin League. In fact, the majority of the colonies planted by Rome were of this kind, the Roman citizens who took part in them voluntarily resigning their citizenship, in consideration of the grants of land which they obtained. But the citizen of any Latin colony might emigrate to Rome, and be enrolled in one of the Roman tribes, provided lie had held a magistracy in his native town. These Latin colonies the Nonien Latinum were some of the most flourishing towns in Italy. III. Socn, or ALLIES, included the rest of Italy. Each of the towns which had been conquered by Rome had formed a treaty (fvcdus) with the latter, which determined their rights and duties. These treaties were of various kinds, some securing nominal inde- pendence to the towns, and others reducing them to absolute sub- jection. The political changes in Rome itself, from the time of the Latin wars, have been already in great part anticipated. Appius Clau- dius, afterward named Caucus, or the Blind, introduced a danger- ous innovation in the constitution during the Second Samnite War. Slavery existed at Rome, as among the other nations of antiquity; and as many slaves, from various causes, acquired their liberty, there gradually sprung up at Rome a large and indigent popula- tion of servile origin. These Freedmen Avere Roman citizens, but they could only be enrolled in the four city-tribes, so that, however numerous they might become, they could influence only the votes B.C. 312. CENSORSHIP OF APPIUS CLAUDIUS. G7 of four tribes. Appius Claudius, in his Censorship (B.C. 312), when making out the lists of citizens, allowed the Freedmen to enroll themselves in any tribe they pleased ; but this dangerous innova- tion was abolished by the Censors Q. Fabius Maximus and P. De- cius Mus (B.C. 304), who restored all the Freedmen to the four city- tribes. The Censorship of Appius is, however, memorable for the great public works which lie executed. He made the great mili- tary road called the Appian Way (Via Appia), leading from Rome to Capua, a distance of 120 miles, which long afterward was con- tinued across the Apennines to Brunclusium. He also executed the first of the great aqueducts (Aqua Appia) which supplied Rome with such an abundance of water. Cn. Flavius, the son of a Freedman, and Secretary to Appius Claudius, divulged the forms and times to be observed in legal pro- ceedings. These the Patricians had hitherto kept secret ; they alone knew the days when the courts would be held, and the tech- nical pleadings according to which all actions must proceed. But Flavius. having become acquainted with these secrets, by means of his patron, published in a book a list of the formularies to be ob- served in the several kinds of actions, and also set up in the forum a whitcd tablet containing a list of all the days on which the courts could be held. In spite of his ignominious birth, he was made a Senator by Appius Claudius, and was elected Curule ^Edile by the jeople. Temple of Vesta. (From a Coin.) Mount Ercta in Sicily. CHAPTER X. THE FIRST PUNIC WAR. B.C. 264-241. ROME, now mistress of Italy, entered upon a long and arduous struggle with Carthage, which ruled without a rival the western waters of the Mediterranean. This great and powerful city was founded by the Phoenicians* of Tyre in u.c. 814, according to the common chronology. Its inhabitants were consequently a branch of the Semitic race, to which the Hebrews also belonged. Carthage rose to greatness by her commerce, and gradually extended her em- pire over the whole of the north of Africa, from the Straits of Her- cules to the borders of Cyrene. Her Libyan subjects she treated with extreme harshness, and hence they were always ready to re- volt against her so soon as a foreign enemy appeared upon her soil. | The two chief magistrates at Carthage were elected annually out or a few of the chief families, and were called Saffetes.^ There was a Senate of Three Hundred members, and also a smaller Council of One Hundred, of which the latter were the most powerful, hold- ing office for life, and exercising an almost sovereign sway over the other authorities in the state.] The government was a complete oli- garchy ; and a few oil, rich, and powerful families divided among themselves the influence and power of the state. These great fam- ilies were often opposed to each other in bitter feuds, but concurred in treating with contempt the mass of the people. In her foreign wars Carthage depended upon mercenary.troops*. which her great wealth enabled her to procure in abundaTTCe'frowL, Spain, Italv, and Greece, as well as from Libya. Sardinia and Corsica were among her earliest conquests, and Sicily was also ono * The Phoenicians were called by the Latins Poeni, whence the adjective ptif nfctts, like muni re from m(rnia, and pnnire from pornn. t Probably the Fame as the Hebrew Shofetim, i. c., Judges. B.C. 264-2-11. THE FIRST PUNIC WAR. 63 of the first obJ3cts of her military enterprise. The Phoenician col- onies in this island came under her dominion as the power of Tyre declined ; and having thus obtained a firm footing in Sicily, she carried on a long struggle for the supremacy with the Greek cities It was here that she came into contact with the Roman arms. The relations of Rome and Carthage had hitherto been peaceful, and a treaty, concluded between the two states in the first years of the Roman republic, had been renewed more than once. But the ex tension of Roman dominion had excited the jealousy of Carthage, and Rome began to turn longing eyes to the fair island at the foot of her empire. It was evident that a struggle was not far distant, and Pyrrhus could not help exclaiming, as he quitted Sicily, "How fine a battle-field are we leaving to the Romans and Carthaginians!" The city of Messana, situated on the straits which divide Sicily from Italy, was occupied at this time by the Mamertini. They were a body of Campanian mercenaries, chiefly of Sabellian origin, who had served under Agathocles, and after the death of that ty- rant (H.C. 289) were marched to Messana, in order to be transport- ed to Italy. Being hospitably received within the city, they sud- denly rose against the inhabitants, massacred the male population, and made themselves masters of their wives and property. They cow took the name of Mamertini, or " Children of Mars," from Mamers, a Sabellian name for that deity. They rapidly extended their power over a considerable portion of the north of Sicily, and were formidable enemies to Syracuse. Hicro, having become king of Syracuse, determined to destroy this nest of robbers, advanced against them with a large army, defeated them in battle, and shut them up Avithin Messana. The Mamertines were obliged to look out for help ; one party wished to appeal to the Carthaginians, and the other to invoke the assistance of Rome. The latter ultimately prevailed, and an embassy was sent to implore immediate aid. The temptation was strong, for the occupation of Messana by a Cartha- ginian garrison might prove dangerous to the tranquillity of Italy. Still the Senate hesitated ; for only six years before Hiero had as- sisted the Romans in punishing the Campanian mercenaries, who had seized Rhegium in the same way as the Mamertines had made themselves masters of Messana. The voice of justice prevailed, and the Senate declined the proposal. But the Consuls, thirsting for glory, called together the popular assembly, who eagerly voted that the Mamertines should be assisted ; in other words, that the Carthaginians should not be allowed to obtain possession of Mes- sana. The Consul App. Claudius, the son of the blind Censor, was to lead an army into Sicily. But during this delay the Cartha- ginian party in Messana had obtained the ascendency, and Hamio, 70 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. X with a Carthaginian garrison, had been admitted into the citadeL Hiero had concluded peace with the Mamertines through the medi- ation of the Carthaginians, so that there was no longer even a pre- text for the interference of the Romans. But a legate of the Con- sul App. Claudius, having crossed to Sicily, persuaded the Mamer- tines to expel the Carthaginian garrison. Hiero and the Cartha- ginians now proceeded to lay siege to Mcssana by sea and land, an I the Romans no longer hesitated to declare war against Carthage. Such was the commencement of the first Punic War (B.C. 2G4). The Carthaginians commanded the sea with a powerful fleet, while the Romans had no ships of war worthy of the name. But the Consul App. Claudius, having contrived to elude the Cartha- ginian squadron, landed near the town of Messana, and defeated in succession the forces of Syracuse and Carthage. In the following year (2G3) the Romans followed up their success against Hiero. The two Consuls advanced to the walls of Syracuse, ravaging the territory of fhe city and capturing many of its dependent towns. The king became alarmed at the success of the Romans ; and thinking that they would prove more powerful than the Cartha- ginians, he concluded a peace A\ith Rome. From this time till his death, a period of nearly fifty years, Hiero remained the firm and steadfast ally of the Romans. The Romans, now freed from the hostility of Syracuse, laid siege to Agrigentum, the second of the Greek cities in Sicily, which had espoused the cause of the Carthaginians at the commencement cf the Avar. The siege lasted seven months, and numbers perished on both sides. But at length the Romans gained a decisive victory over the Carthaginian army which had been sent to raise the siege, and obtained possession of the town (n.c. 2G2). The first three years of the Avar had already made the Romans masters of the greater part of Sicily. But the coasts of Italy were exposed to the ravages of the Carthaginian fleet, and the Romans saw that they could not hope to bring the war to a successful term- ination so long as Carthage was mistress of the sea. They had only a small number of triremes, galleys willi three banks of oare, and were quite unable to cope with the quinqucrcmes, or large vessels with five banks of oars, of which the Carthaginian navy consisted. The Senate, with characteristic energy, determined to build a fleet of these larger vessels. A Carthaginian quinquereme, which had been wrecked upon the coast of Italy, served as a mod- el; and in the short space of sixty days from the time the trees were felled, 130 ships were launched. While the ships were build- ing, the rowers were trained on scaffolds placed upon the land like benches of ships at sea. We can not but feel astonished at the 13.C.2G4-241. THE FIRST TUNIC WAR. 71 daring of the Romans, who, with ships thus hastily and clumsily built, and with crews imperfectly trained, sailed to attack the navy or' the first maritime state in the world. This was in the fifth year of the war (B.C. 260). One of the Consuls, Cn. Cornelius, first put to sea with only 17 ships, but was surprised near Lipara. and taken prisoner with the whole of his squadron. His colleague, C. Duilius, now took the command of the rest of the fleet. He saw that the only means of conquering the Carthaginians by sea was to deprive them of all the advantages of manoeuvring, and to take their ships by boarding. For this purpose, every ship was provided with a boarding-bridge 36 feet in length, which was pulled up by a rope and fastened to a mast in the fore part of the ship. As soon ns an enemy's ship came near enough, the rope was loosened, the bridge fell down, and became fastened by means of an iron ppike in its under side. The boarders then poured down the bridge into the enemy's ship. Thus prepared, Duilius boldly sailed out to meet the fleet of the enemy. He found them, off the Sicilian coast, near Mylae. The Carthaginians hastened to the fight as if to a triumph, but their ships were rapidly seized by the boarding - bridges, and when it came to a close fight their crews were no match for the veteran soldiers of Rome. The victory of Duilius was com- plete. Thirty-one of the enemy's ships were taken, and fourteen destroyed ; the rest only saved themselves by an ignominious flight. On his return to Rome, Duilius celebrated a magnificent triumph. L'ublic honors were conferred upon him ; he was to be escorted home in the evening from banquets by the light of torches and the sound of the flute, and a column adorned with the beaks of the conquered ships, and thence called the Columna Rostrata, was <-ct up in the forum.* * The inscription upon this column, or, at any rale, a very ancient copy of it ' / Thc Carthaginian dominion in Sicily was now confined to the northwestern corner of the island, and Lilvbamm and Drepanum were the only two towns remaining in their hands. Lilybeeum, situated upon a promontory at the western extremity of the island, was the strong-hold of the Carthaginian power ; and according!}' the Romans determined to concentrate all their efforts, and to em- ploy the armies of both Consuls in attacking this city. This siege, which is one of the most memorable in ancient history, com- menced in H.C. 250, and lasted till the termination of the war. In the second year of the siege (B.C. 240), the Consul P. Claudius, who lay before Lilybocum, formed the design of attacking the Car- thaginian fleet in the neighboring harbor of Drepanum. In vain did the auguries warn him- The keeper of the sacred chickens told B.C. 264-241. THE FIRST TUNIC WAR. 75 him. that they would not cat. "At any rate," said he, "lot them drink;" and he ordered them to be thrown overheard. His impi- ety met with a meet reward. He was defeated with great loss ; 93 of his ships were taken or destroyed, and only 30 escaped. Great was the indignation at Rome. lie was recalled by the Sen- ate, ordered to appoint a Dictator, and then to lay down his office., Claudius, in scorn, named M. Claudius Glycias, a son of one ofhia freedmen. But the Senate would not brook this insult ; they de- prived the unworthy man of the honor, and appointed in his place A. Atilius Calatinus. The other Consul, C. Junius, was equally unfortunate. He was sailing along the coasts of Sicily with a convoy of 800 vessels, in- tended to relieve the wants of the army at Lilybreum, when he was overtaken by one of those terrible storms which had twice before proved so fatal to the Roman fleets. The transports were all dash- ed to pieces, and of his 105 ships of war only two escaped. Thus the Roman fleet was a third time destroyed. These repeated mis- fortunes compelled the Romans to abandon any farther attempts to contest the supremacy cf the sea. About this time a really great man was placed at the head of the Carthaginian army a man who, at an earlier period of the war, might have brought the struggle to a very different termination. This was the celebrated Hamilcar Barca,* the father of the still more celebrated Hannibal. He was still a young man at the time of his appointment to the command in Sicily (u.c. 247). His very* first operations were equally daring and successful. Instead of confining himself to the defense of Lilybojum and Drepanum, with, which the Carthaginian commanders had been hitherto contented, he made descents upon the coast of Italy, and then suddenly land- ed on the north of Sicily, and established himself, with his whole army, on a mountain called Hercte (the modern Monlc Pcllegrino\ which overhung the town of Panormus (the modern Palermo}, one of the most important of the Roman possessions. Here he main- tained himself for nearly three years, to the astonishment alike of friends and foes, and from hence he made continual descents into the enemy's country, and completely prevented them from making any vigorous attacks either upon Lilybaeum or Drepanum. All the efforts of the Romans to dislodge him were unsuccessful ; and he only quitted Hercte in order to seize Eryx, a town situated upon the mountain of this name, and only six miles from Drepanum. This position he held for two years longer; and the Romans, de- spairing of driving the Carthaginians out ot Sicily so long as they were masters of the sea, resolved to build another fleet. lu B.C. * Barca i.s the same as the Hebrew word fotrak, u lightning." 7G HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. X. 242 the Consul Lutatius Catulus put to sea with a fleet of 200 ships, and in the following year he gained a decisive victory over the Car- thaginian fleet, com- manded by II anno, off the group of isl= anils called the yEga= tes. This victory gave the Romans the su= premacy by sea. Li- lybaeum, Drepanum, and Eryx might now be reduced by fam- ine. The Carthagin- ians were weary of the war, and indis- posed to make any farther sacrifices. They therefore sent orders to Hamilcar to make peace on the best terms he could. It was at length con eluded on the fol- lowing conditions : that Carthage should evacuate Sicily and the adjoining isl- ands; that she should restore the Roman prisoners without ransom, and should pay the sum of 3200 talents within the space of ten years (u.c. 241). All Sicily, with the exception of the territory of Hiero, now became a portion of the Roman dominions, and was formed into a Province, governed by a Traitor, who was sent annually from Rome. Plan of Mount Ercta. A. Ercta, now Monte Pdlegrino. B. Panorama, the modern Palermo. Coin of Carthage. CHAPTER XL EVENTS BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND PUNIC WAES. B.C. 240-210. TAVENTY-THREE years elapsed between the First and Second Punic Wars. The power of Carthage, though crippled, was not de- stroyed : and Hamilcar returned home, burning with hatred against Home, and determined to renew the war upon a favorable opportu- nity. But a new and terrible danger threatened Carthage upon her own soil. The mercenary troops, who had been transported from Sicily to Africa at the conclusion of the war$ being unable to obtain their arrears of pay, rose in open mutiny. Their leaders were Spendius, a runaway Campanian slave, and Mntho, a Libyan. They were quickly joined by the native Libyans, and brought Car- thage almost to the brink of destruction. They laid waste the whole country with fire and sword, made themselves masters of all the towns except the capital, and committed the most frightful atrocities. Carthage owed her safety to the genius and abilities of Hamilcar. The struggle was fierce and sanguinary, but was at length brought to a successful issue, after it had lasted more than three years, by the destruction of all the mercenaries. It was call- ed the War without Peace, or the Inexpiable War (B.C. 238). The Romans availed themselves of the exhausted condition of Carthage to demand from her the islands of Sardinia, and Corsica, and the payment of a farther sum of 1200 talents. The mercenary troops in Sardinia, who had also revolted, had applied to Rome for assistance ; and the Senate menaced her rival with war unless she complied with these unjust demands. Resistance was impossible, and Sardinia and Corsica were now formed into a Roman prov- 78 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XI. ince, governed, like Sicily, by a Praetor sent annually from Rome (B.C. 238). This act of robbery added fresh fuel to the implacable animosity of Hamilcar against the grasping Republic. He now departed for Spain, where for many years he steadily worked to lay the foundation of a new empire, which might not only compen- sate for the loss of Sicily and Sardinia, but enable him at some timo to renew hostilities against Rome. Rome was now at peace, and in B.C. 235 the Temple of Janr.s, which had remained open since the days of Numa, was closed for a second time. Two new tribes were added to the Roman territo- ry, thus making their total number thirty-live. The Temple of Janus did not long remain closed. The Illyri- ans, who dwelt near the head of the Adriatic upon its eastern side, were a nation of pirates, who ravaged the coasts of this sea. The Senate having sent embassadors to the Illyrian queen, Teuta, to complain of these outrages, she not only refused to attend to their complaints, but caused one of the embassadors to be murdered. War was straightway declared, and a Roman army for the first time crossed the Adriatic (u.c. 229). Demetrius of Pharos, an un- principled Greek, who was the chief counselor of Teuta, deserted his mistress, and surrendered to the Romans the important island of Corey ra. Teuta was obliged to yield to the Romans every tiling they demanded, and promised that the lllyrians should not appear south of Lissa with more than two vessels. The suppression of piracy in the Adriatic was hailed with gratitude by the Grecian states, and deserves notice as the first occasion upon which the Ro- mans were brought into immediate contact with Greece. The Con- sul Postumius, who had wintered in Illyria, sent envoys to Athens, Corinth, and other Grecian cities, to explain what had been done. The envoys were received with honor, and thanks were returned to Rome (B.C. 228). The Romans had scarcely brought this trifling war to an end when they became involved in a formidable struggle with their old enemies the Gauls. Since the conquest of the Scnoncs in B.C. 281), and of the Boii in i-,. c. 283, the Gauls had remained quiet, The Romans had founded the colony of Sena after the subjugation of the Scnoncs; and in B.C. 208 they had still farther strengthened their dominion in those parts by founding the colony of Ariminum. But the greater part of the soil from which the Senones were eject- ed became Public Land. In B.C. 232 the Tribune C. Flaminius carried an Agrarian Law to the effect that this portion of the pub- lic land, known by the name of the "Gallic Land,"* should be dis- tributed among the poorer citizens. This alarmed the Boii, who * Gallieiis agcr. B.C. 240-219. EVENTS BETWEEN THE TWO WARS. 79 dwelt upon the borders of this district. They invoked the assist- ance of the powerful tribe of the Insubres, and being joined by them, as well as by large bodies of Gauls from beyond the Alps, they set out for Home. All Italy was in alarm. The Romans dreaded a repetition of the disaster of the Allia. The Sibylline Books being consulted, de- clared that Rome must be twice occupied by a foreign foe ; where- upon the Senate ordered that two Gauls and a Grecian woman should be buried alive in the forum. The allies eagerly offered men and supplies to meet a danger which was common to the whole peninsula. An army of 150,000 foot and 6000 horse was speedily raised. A decisive battle was fought near Telamon in Etruria. The Gauls were hemmed in between the armies of the two Consuls. As many as 40,000 of their men were slain, and 10,000 taken prisoners (B.C. 225). The Romans followed up their success by invading the country of the Boii, who submitted in the following year (B.C. 224). In B.C. 223 the Romans for the first time crossed the Po, and the Consul C. Flaminius gained a brilliant victory OA-cr the Insu- bres. The Consuls of the next year, Cn. Cornelius Scipio and M. Claudius Marcellus, continued the war against the Insubres, who called in to their aid a fresh body of Transalpine Gauls. Marcel- lus slew with his own hand Viridomarus, the chief of the Insubrian Gauls, and thus gained the third Spolia Opinut. At the same time Scipio took Mediolanum (Milan), the chief town of the Insubres. This people now submitted without conditions, and the war was brought to an end. To secure their recent conquests, the Romans determined to plant two powerful Latin colonies^at Placentia and Cremona, on opposite banks of the Po. These were founded in B.C. 218, and consisted each of GOOO men. The Via Flaminia, a road constructed by C. Flaminius during his consulship (B.C. 220), from Rome to Ariminum, secured the communication with the north of Italy. While the Romans were engaged in the Gallic wars, the traitor Demetrius of Pharos had usurped the chief power in Illyria, and had ventured upon many acts of piracy. In B.C. 219 the Consul L. ^Emilius Paullus crossed the Adriatic, and soon brought this second Illyrian war to an end. Demetrius fled to Philip of Mace- don, where we shall shortly afterward sec him prompting this king to make war against Rome. The greater part of Illyria was re- stored to the native chiefs ; but the Romans retained possession of Corcyra, and of the important towns of Apollonia and Oricum on the coast. Meanwhile Hamilcar had been steadily pursuing his conquests 80 HISTORY OF HOME. CIIAI-. XI. in Spain. The subjugation of this country was only a means to an end. His great object, as already stated, was to obtain the means of attacking, and, if possible, crushing that hated rival who had robbed his country of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. His im- placable animosity against Rome is shown by the well-known tale that, when he crossed over to Spain in B.C. 235, taking with him his son Hannibal, then only nine years old, he made him swear at the altar eternal hostility to Rome. During the eight years that Hamilcar continued in Spain he carried the Carthaginian arms into the heart of the country. While he conquered several states in war, he gained over others by negotiation, and availed himself of their services as allies or mercenaries. He fell in battle in B.C. 229, and was succeeded in the command by his son-in-law Hasdru- bal. His plans were ably carried out by his successor. The con- ciliatory manners of Hasdrubal gained him the affections of the Spaniards ; and he consolidated the Carthaginian empire in Spain by the foundation of New Carthage, now Cartagena, in a situation admirably chosen on account of its excellent harbor and easy com- munication with Africa, as well as from its proximity to the silver mines, which supplied him with the means of paying his troops. The conduct of his warlike enterprises was intrusted to the youth- ful Hannibal, who had been trained in arms under the eye of his father, and who already displayed that ability for war which made him one of the most celebrated generals in ancient or modern times. The successes of Hamilcar and Hasdrubal could not fail to attract the notice of the Romans, and in B.C. 227 they concluded a treaty with the latter, by which the River Iberus (Ebro) was fixed as the northern boundary of the Carthaginian empire in Spain. Hasdrubal Avas assassinated in B.C. 221 by a slave whose master he had put to death. Hannibal had now acquired such a remark* able ascendency over the army that the soldiers unanimously pro- claimed him commander-in-chief, and the government at Carthage hastened to ratify an appointment which they had not, in fact, the power to prevent. Hannibal was at this time in the 26th year of his age. There can be no doubt that he already looked forward to the invasion and conquest of Italy as the goal of his ambition ; but it was necessary for him first to complete the work which had been so ably begun by his two predecessors, and to establish the Cartha- ginian power as firmly as possible in Spain. This he accomplish- ed in two campaigns, in the course of which he brought all the na- tions south of the Iberus into subjection to Carthage. Early in the spring of B.C. 219 he proceeded to lay siege to Sa- guntum, a city x>f Greek origin, founded by the Zacynthians. Though situated to the south of the Iberus, and therefore not in- B.C. 249-2 1'J. EVENTS BETWEEN THE TWO WARS. 81 eluded under the protection of the treaty between Hasdrubal and the Koraans, Saguntum had concluded an alliance with the latter people. There could be little doubt, therefore, that an attack upon this city would inevitably bring on a war with Rome ; but for this Hannibal was prepared, or, rather, it was unquestionably his real object. The immediate pretext of his invasion was the same of which the Romans so often availed themselves some injury in- flicted by the Saguntines upon one of the neighboring tribes, who invoked the assistance of Hannibal. But the resistance of the city was long and desperate, and it was not till after a siege of nearly eight months that he made himself master of the place. During all this period the Romans sent no assistance to their allies. They had, indeed, as soon as they heard of the siege, dispatched embassadors to Hannibal, but he referred them for an answer to the government at home, and they could obtain no satisfaction from the Carthaginians, in whose councils the war-party had now a decided predominance. A second embassy was sent, after the fall of Saguntum, to demand the surrender of Hannibal, in atone- ment for the breach of the treaty. After much discussion, Q. Fa- bius, one of the Roman embassadors, holding up a fold of his toga, said, "I carry here peace and war; choose ye which ye will." " Give us which you will," was the reply. "Then take war," said Fabius, letting fall his toga. "We accept the gift," cried the Sen- ators of Carthage. Thus commenced the Second Punic War. Lake Trasimenus. CHAPTER XII. THE SECOND I'UMC WAR FIRST PERIOD, DOWN TO THE CATTLE OF CANX^E. B.C. 218-216. THE Second Punic War was not so much a contest between the powers of two great nations between Carthage and Rome as be- tween the individual genius of Hannibal on one hand, and the combined energies of the Roman people on the other. The posi- tion of Hannibal was indeed very peculiar. His command in Spain, and the powerful army there, which was entirely at his own dispo- sal, rendered him in great measure independent of the government tit Carthage, and the latter seemed disposed to devolve all respon- sibilty upon him. Even now they did little themselves to prepare for the impending contest. All was left to Hannibal, who, after the conquest of Saguntnm, had returned once more to New Cnr- thage for the winter, and was there actively engaged in preparations for transporting the scene of Avar in the ensuing campaign from Spain into Italy. At the same time he did not neglect to provide for the defense of Spain and Africa during his absence. In the B.C. 218-216. SECOND TUNIC WAR: FIRST PERIOD 83 former country he placed his brother Hasdrubal, with a considers ble army, great part of which was composed of Africans, while he sent over a large body of Spanish troops to contribute to the de- fense of Africa, and even of Carthage itself. All his preparations being now completed, Hannibal quitted his winter quarters at New Carthage in the spring of H.C. 218, and crossed the Iberus with an army of 90,()00 foot and 12,000 horse. The tribes between that river and the Pyrenees offered at first a vigorous resistance, and, though they were quickly subdued, Ilan- nibal thought it necessary to leave behind him a force of 11,000 men under Hanno to maintain this newly-acquired province. His forces were farther thinned by desertion during the passage of the Pyrenees, which obliged him to send home a large body of his Span- ish troops. With a greatly diminished army, but one on which he could securely rely, he now continued his march from the foot of the Pyrenees to the Rhone without meeting with anv opposition; for the Gaulish tribes through which he passed were favorably dis- posed to him, or had been previously gained over by his enemies. The Consul P. Cornelius Scipio had been ordered to proceed to Spain, but various causes had detained him in Italy, and upon land- ing at Massilia (Marseilles) he found that Hannibal was already advancing toward the Rhone. Meantime the Carthaginian gener- al effected his passage across the river, notwithstanding the opposi- tion of the Gauls ; and when Scipio marched up the left bank of the river he found that Hannibal had advanced into the interior of Gaul, and was already three days in advance of him. Despairing, therefore, of overtaking Hannibal, he determined to sail back to Italy and aw:iit him in Cisalpine Gaul ; but as the Republic had al- ready an army in that province, he sent the greater part of his own forces into Spain under the command of his brother Cn. Scipio. This prudent step probably saved Rome; for if the Carthaginians had maintained the undisputed mastery of Spain, they might have concentrated all their efforts to support Hannibal in Italy, and have sent him such strong re-enforcements after the battle of Cannaj as would have compelled Rome to submit. Hannibal, after crossing the Rhone, continued his march up the left bank of the river as far as its confluence with the Isere. Here he interposed in a dispute between two rival chiefs of the Allo* brogcs, and, by lending hi? aid to establish one of them firmly op the throne, secured the co-operation of an efficient ally, who great, ly facilitated his farther progress. But in his passage across tho Alps he was attacked by the barbarians, and as he struggled through the narrow and dangerous defiles the enemy destroyed numbers of his men. It was some days before he reached the summit of th* 84 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XII. pass. Thenceforth he suffered but little from hostile attacks, but the descent was difficult and dangerous. The natural difficulties of the road, enhanced by the lateness of the season (the beginning of October, at which time the snows had already commenced in the high Alps), caused him almost as much loss as the opposition of the barbarians on the other side of the mountains. So heavy were his losses from these combined causes, that, when he ai length emerged from the valley of Aosta into the plains of the Po and en. camped in the friendly country of the Insubres, he had with him no more than 20,000 foot and GOOO horse.* Such were the forces with which he descended into Italy to attempt the overthrow of a power that a few years before was able to muster a disposable force of above 700,000 fighting men. Five months had been employed in the march from New Cartilage to the plains of Italy, of which the actual passage of the Alps had occupied fifteen days. Hannibal's first care was now to recruit the strength of his troops, exhausted by the hardships and fatigues they had undergone. After a short interval of repose, he turned his arms against the Taurinians (a tribe bordering on, and hostile to, the Insubrians, whom he quickly reduced, and took their principal city (Turin). The news of the approach of P. Scipio next obliged him to turn his attention toward a more formidable enemy. In the first action, which took place in the plains westward of the Ticinus, the cavalry and light-armed troops of the two armies were alone engaged, and the superiority of Hannibal's Numidian horse at once decided the combat in his favor. The Romans were completely routed, and Scipio himself severely wounded ; in consequence of which he hastened to retreat beyond the Ticinus and the Po, un- der the walls of Placcntia. Hannibal crossed the Po higher up, and, advancing to Placentia, offered battle to Scipio ; but the lat- ter declined the combat, and withdrew to the hills on the left bank of the Trebia. Here he was soon after joined by the other Consul, Ti. Sempronius Longus, who had hastened from Ariminum to his support. Their combined armies were greatly superior to that of the Carthaginians, and Sempronius was eager to bring on a general battle, of which Hannibal, on his side, was not less desirous, not- withstanding the great inferiority of his force. The result was de- cisive ; the Romans were completely defeated, with heavy loss ? and the remains of their shattered army, together with the two Consuls, took refuge within the walls of Placentia. The battles of the Ticinus and Trebia had been fought in December, and the * The pnss of the Alps which Hannibal crossed was probably the Graian Alps, or Littl" S'. BernarJ. See note "On the Passage of Hannibal across the Alps" at the end of this chapter. B.C. 218-216. SECOND PUNIC WAR: FIRST PERIOD. 8? . __ 86 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XH. winter had already begun with unusual seventy, so that Hannibal's troops suffered severely i'roni cold, nnd all his elephants perished except one. But his victory had caused all the wavering tribes o* the Gauls to declare in his favor, and he was now able to take up his winter quarters in security, and to levy fresh troops among the Gauls while he awaited the approach of spring. As soon as the season permitted the renewal of military oper- ations (B.C. 217), Hannibal entered the country of the Ligurian tribes, who had lately declared in his favor, and descended by the valley of the Macra into the marshes on the banks of the Arno He had apparently chosen this route in order to avoid the Roman armies, which guarded the more obvious passes of the Apennines ; but the hardships and difficulties which he encountered in strug- gling through the marshes were immense ; great numbers of his horses and beasts of burden perished, and he himself lost the sight of one eye by a violent attack of ophthalmia. At length, howev- er, he readied Fassulae in safety, and was able to allow his troops a short interval of repose. The Consuls for this year were Cn. Scrvilius and C. Flaminius. The latter was the author of the celebrated Agrarian Lav/ which occasioned the Gallic War, and in his first consulship he had gain- ed a great victory over the Insubrian Gauls (see p. 79). He had been raised to his second consulship by popular favor, in spite of the opposition of the Senate ; and he hurried from Rome before the Ides of March,* lest the Senate might throw any obstacle in the way of his entering upon his consulship. He was a man of great energy, but headstrong and reckless. When Hannibal ar- rived at Foesuloj, Flaminius was with his army at Arretium. It was always the object of Hannibal to bring the Roman command- ers to a battle, and therefore, in moving from Faesukc, he passed by the Roman general, and advanced toward Perugia, laying waste the fertile country on his line of march. Flaminius immediately broke up his camp, and, following the traces of Hannibal, fell into the snare which was prepared for him. His army was attacked under the most disadvantageous circumstances, Avhcre it was hemmed in between rocky heights, previously occupied by the enemy, and the Lake of Trasimenus. Its destruction was almost complete. Thou* sands fell by the sword, among whom was the Consul himself; thousands more perished in the lake, and no less than 15,000 pris- oners fell into the hands of Hannibal, who on his side is said to have lost only 1500 men. Hannibal's treatment of the captives on this occasion, as well as after the battle of the Trebia, was marked * At thte time the Consuls entered upon their office on the Ides of March. It was not till c.c. 153 that the consulship commenced on the Kalends of January. B.C. 218-216. SECCXND PUNIC WAR: FIRST PERIOD. 87 by the same policy on which ho afterward uiiJV-rmly r.cted ; the Roman citizens alone were retained as prisoners!, while their Ital- ian allies were dismissed without ransom to their respective homes. By this means he hoped to excite the nations of Italy against their Roman masters, and to place himself in the position of the leadei of a national movement rather than that of a foreign invader. It was probably in order to give time for this feeling to display itself thcl he did not, after so decisive a victory, push on toward Rome tscif ; but, after an unsuccessful attempt upon the Roman colony of Spoletium, he turned aside through the Apennines into Pice- num, and thence into the northern part of Apulia. Here he spent a great part of the summer, and was able effectually to refresh his troops, who had suffered much from the hardships of their previous marches; but no symptoms appeared of the insurrections he had looked for among the Italians. Meantime the Romans had collected n fresh army, which they placed under the command of Q. Fabius Maximus, who had been elected Dictator by the Comitia of the Centuries. Fabius formed a different plan for the campaign. He determined to keep the heights, and not to risk a battle, but at the same time to watch the Carthaginian army, cut off its supplies, and harass and annoy it in every possible way. From pursuing this policy he received the sur- name of Cunctator, or the Lingerer. Hannibal now recrossed the Apennines, descended into the rich plains of Campania, and laid waste, without opposition, that fertile territory. But he was unable either to make himself master of any of the towns, or to draw the wary Fabius to a battle. The Roman general contented himself with occupying the mountain passes leading from Samnium into Campania, by which Hannibal must of necessity retreat, and believed that he had caught him, as it were, in a trap ; but Hannibal eluded his vigilance by an ingenious strat- agem, passed the defiles of the Apennines without loss, and estab- lished himself in the plains of Apulia, where he collected supplies from all sides, in order to prepare for the winter. Meantime the Romans, having become impatient at the inactivity of Fabius, raised Minuciua, the Master of the Horse, to an equality in command with Fabius. His rashness very nearly gave Hannibal the opportunity, for which he was ever on the watch, to crush the Roman army by a decisive blow ; but Fabius was able to save his colleague from de- struction ; and Hannibal, after obtaining only a partial advantage, took up hie winter quarters at the small town of Geronium. Mi- nucius acknowledged his error, and resumed his post of Master of the Horse. During the winter the Romans made preparations for bringing 88 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XII. an unusually large force into the field. The people thought that it needed only a man of energy and decision at the head of an overwhelming force to bring the war to a close. They therefore raised to the consulship C. Terentius Varro, said to have been the son of a butcher, who had been for some time regarded as the champion of the popular party. The Senate regarded this election With dismay, as Varro possessed no military experience ; and they ihcrefore persuaded the people to appoint as his colleague L. -/Emilius Paullus, who had distinguished himself by the way in which he had conducted the Illyrian war during his consulship. Hannibal remained at Geronium until late in the spring (B.C. 21 G), when, compelled to move by the want of provisions, he sur- prised the Roman magazines at Cannce, a small town of Apulia, and established his head-quarters there until the harvest could be got in. Meanwhile the two Roman Consuls arrived at the head of an army of little less than 90,000 men. To this mighty host Han- nibal gave battle in the plains on the right bank of the Aundus, just below the town of Canna3. We have no statement of the num- bers of his army, but it is certain that it must have been greatly in- ferior to that of the enemy ; notwithstanding which, the excellence of his cavalry, and the disciplined valor of his African and Spanish infantry, gave him the most decisive victory. The immense army of the Romans was not only defeated, but annihilated, and be- tween forty and fifty thousand men are said to have fallen in the field, among whom was the Consul ^Emilius Paullus, both the Con- suls of the preceding year, the late Master of the Horse, Minucius, above eighty senators, and a multitude of the wealthy knights who composed the Roman cavalry. The other Consul, Varro, escaped with a few horsemen to Venusia, and a small band of resolute men forced their way from the Roman camp to Canusium ; all the rest were killed, dispersed, or taken prisoners. Hannibal has been gen- erally blamed for not following up his advantage at once, after so decisive a victory, by an immediate advance upon Rome itself a measure which was strongly urged upon him by Mahnrbal. " Only send me on with the cavalry," said this officer, "and within five days thou shalt sup in the Capitol." Whatever may be the mo. iives that deterred Hannibal from marching upon Rome, we can not but be surprised at his apparent inactivity after the battle. He probably expected that so brilliant a success would immediately produce a general rising among the nations of Italy, and remained for a time quietly in Apulia, until they should have had time to declare themselves. Nor were his hopes disappointed ; the Hirpin- ians, all the Samnites (except the Pentrian tribe), and almost all tlie Apulians, Lucanians, and Bruttians, declared in favor of Car- B.C. 218-216. SECOND PUNIC WAR : HRST PERIOD. 89 tliage. But, though the whole of the south of Italy was thus appa- rently lost to the Romans, yet the effect of '.'his insurrection was not so decisive as it would at first appear ; for the Latin colonies, which still, without exception, remained faithful, gave the Romans a powerful hold upon the revolted provinces ; and the Greek cities on the coast, though mostly disposed to join the Carthaginians, were restrained by the presence of Roman garrisons. Hence it be- came necessary to support the insurrection in the different parts of Italy with a Carthaginian force. Hannibal marched first into Route of Hannibal. (See p. 90.) Samnium, and from thence into Campania, where he obtained pos- session of the important city of Capua, the gates of which were opened to him by the popular party. Here he established his army in winter quarters. Thus ends the first period of the war, in which Hannibal had met with uninterrupted success. Three great victories in three years, followed by the revolt of a city scarcely inferior to Rome itself in importance, seemed to promise a speedy termination of the war. 90 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XII. NOTE ON HANNIBAL'S PASSAGE ACROSS THE ALPS. (Seep. 84.) The narrative in the text is taken from that of the Greek historian Polyb- ius, which is certainly by far the rno.-t trustworthy that has descended to us ; but that author luis nowhere clearly stated by which of the passes across the Alps Hannibal effected his march; and this question has given rise to much controversy both in ancient and modern times. Into this discussion our limits will not allow us to eiiter, but the following may be briefly stated as the general results : 1. That after a careful examination of the text of Polybius, and comparison of the dif- ferent localities, his narrative will be found, on the whole, to agree best with the supposition that Hannibal crossed the Graian Alps, or Littl<>. St. Ilernard ; though it can not be denied that there are some difficulties attending this line, especially in regard to the descent into Italy. 2. That Csolius Antipater certainly represented him as taking this route (Liv., xxi., 33); and as he is known to liave followed the Greek history of Silenus, who is said to have accompanied Hannibal in many of his campaigns, his authority is of the greatest weight. 3. That Livy and Strabo, on the contrary, both suppose him to have crossed the Cottinn Alps, or Mont (it'iv'rrc. But the main ar- gument that appears to have weighed with Livy, as it has done with several modern writers on the subject, is the assumption that Hannibal descended in the first instance into the country of the Taurinians, which is opposed to the direct testimony of Polybiue, who says expressly that he descended among the Jnsubrians, and xiibs qucnt- ly mentions his attack on the Taurin- ians. 4. That, as according to Livy himself (xxi., 20), the Gaulish emissa- ries who acted as Hannibal's guides were Boians, it was natural that these should conduct him by the passage that led directly into the territory of their allies and brothers-in-arms, the Insubrians, rather than into that of the Taurinians, a Ligurian tribe, who were at this very time in a state of hostility with the Insubrians. And this remark will serve to explain why Hannibal chose apparently a longer route, instead of the more direct one of Mont Gencvre. Lastly, it is remark- able that 1'olybius, though he censures the exaggerations and absurdities with which earlier writers had encumbered their narrative, does not intimate that any doubt was entertained as to the line of march ; and Pompey, in a letter to the Senate, written in 73 B.C., al- ludes to the route of Hannibal across j the Alps as something well known. | Hence it appears clear that the passage by which he crossed them must have been one of those frequented in subse- quent times by the Romans. This argu- ment seems decisive against the claims of Mont Ceiiix, which have been advo- cated by some modern writers, that pass having apparently never been used till the Middle Ages See Diet, of Greek rmd Hainan Kiography, vol. ii., p. 334, 335. Plain of Cannae. CHAPTER XIII. SECOND PUNIC WAR : SECOND PERIOD, FROM THE REVOLT OF CAPUA TO THE BATTLE OF THE METAURCS. B.C. 215-207. CAPUA was celebrated for its wealth and luxury, and the ener- vating effect which these produced upon the array of Hannibal be- came a favorite theme of rhetorical exoneration in later s:gcs. The futility of such declamations is sufficiently shown by the sim- ple fact that the superiority of that army in the field remained as decided as ever. Still it may be truly said that the winter spent at Capua (n.r. 210-2ir>) was in great measure the turning-point of Hannibal's fortune, and from this time the war assumed an altered character. The experiment of what he could effect with his single army had now been fully tried, and, notwithstanding all his victo- ries, it had decidedly failed ; for Rome was still unsubdued, and still provided with the means of maintaining a protracted contest. But Hannibal had not relied on his own forces alone, and he now found himself, apparently at least, in a condition to commence the execution of his long-cherished plan that of arming Italy itself against the Romans, and crushing the ruling power by means of her own subjects. It was to this object that his attention was henceforth mainly directed. From this time, also, the Romans 92 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XIIL changed their plan of operations, and, instead of opposing to Han- nibal one great army in the field, they hemmed in his movements on all sides, guarded all the most important towns with strong garrisons, and kept up an army in every province of Italy to thwart the operations of his lieutenants and check the rising disposition to revolt. It is impossible here to follow in detail the complicated operations of the subsequent campaigns, during which Hannibal himself frequently traversed Italy in all directions, appearing sud- denly wherever his presence was called for, and astonishing and often baffling the enemy by the rapidity of his marches. All thaj we can do is to notice very briefly the leading events which distin- guished each successive campaign. The campaign of B.C. 215 was not marked by any decisive events. The Consuls were Q. Fabius Maxim us (whose plan of conducting the war had been fully vindicated by the terrible defeat of Cannaj) and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. With the advance of spring Hannibal took up his camp on Mount Tifata, where, while await- ing the arrival of re-enforcements from Carthage, he was at hand to support his partisans in Campania and oppose the Roman gen- erals in that province. But his attempts on Cumaj and Neapolis were foiled, and even after he had been joined by a force from Carthage (very inferior, however, to what he had expected), he sus- tained a repulse before Nola, which was magnified by the Romans into a defeat. As the winter approached he withdrew into Apu- lia, and took up his quarters in the plains around Arpi. But oth- er prospects were already opening before him. In his camp on Tifata he had received embassies from Philip, king of Macedon, and Hieronymus of Syracuse, both of which he had eagerly welcomed, and thus sowed the seeds of two fresh wars, and raised up two formidable enemies against the Roman power. These two collateral wars in some degree drew off the attention of both parties from that in Italy itself; yet the Romans still op- posed to the Carthaginian general a chain of armies which fetter- ed all his operations ; and though Hannibal was ever on the watch for the opportunity of striking a blow, the campaign of B.C. 214 was still less decisive thar, Jhat of the preceding year. Fabius was again elected Consul, and Marcellus was appointed his colleague. Early in the summer Hannibal advanced from Apulia to his former station on Mount Tifata to watch over the safety of Capua ; from thence he had descended to the Lake Avernus, in hopes of mak- ing himself master of Puteoli, when a prospect was held out to him of surprising the important city of Tarentum. Thither he hasten- ed by forced marches, but arrived too late ; Tarentum had been secured by a Roman force- After this his operations were of B.C. 215-207. SECOND PUNIC WAR: SECOND PERIOD. 93 little importance, until he again took up his winter quarters in Apulia. During the following summer (B.C. 213), while all eyes were turned toward the war in Sicily, Hannibal remained almost wholly inactive in the neighborhood of Tarentum, the hopes he still enter- tained of making himself master of that important city rendering him unwilling to quit that quarter of Italy. Before the close of the ensuing winter he was rewarded with the long-lookcd-for prize, and Tarentum was betrayed into his hands by two of its citizens. The advantage, however, was incomplete, for a Roman garrison still held possession of the citadel, from which he was unable to dislodge them. The next year (B.C. 212) was marked by import- ant events in Sicily and Spain, to which we must now direct our attention. Hiero, so long the faithful ally of Rome, died shortly after the battle of Cannae (B.C. 21G), and was succeeded by his grandson Hieronymus, a vain youth, who abandoned the alliance of Rome for that of Carthage. But he was assassinated after a reign of fif- teen months, and a republican form of government was established in Syracuse. A contest ensued between the Roman and Cartha- ginian parties in Syracuse, but the former ultimately prevailed, and Epicydes and Hippocrates, two brothers whom Hannibal had sent to Syracuse to espouse his interests, had to quit the city, and took refuge at Leontini. Such was the state of affairs when the Consul Marcellus arrived in Sicily (B.C. 214). He forthwith march- ed against Leontini, which Epicydes and Hippocrates defended with a considerable force. He took the city by storm, and, though he spared the inhabitants, executed in cold blood 2000 Roman de- serters whom he found among the troops that had formed the gar- rison. This sanguinary act at once alienated the minds of the Si- cilians, and alarmed the mercenary troops in the service of Syra- cuse. The latter immediately joined Hippocrates and Epicydes. who had made their escape to Herbessus ; the gates of Syracuse were opened to them by their partisans within the walls, and the party hostile to Rome was thus established in the undisputed command of that city. Marcellus now appeared before Syracuse at the head of his army, and, after a fruitless summons to the in- habitants, proceeded to lay siege to the city both by sea and land. His attacks were vigorous and unremitting, and were directed es- pecially against the quarter of Achradina* from the side of the sea; but, though he brought many powerful military engines against the walls, these were rendered wholly unavailing by the superior skill and science of Archimedes, which were employed on the side of * See the map in the " Smaller History of Greece," p. 11T. 94 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XIII the Besieged. All the efforts of the assailants were baffled; and the Roman soldiers were inspired with so great a dread of Ar- chimedes and his engines,* that Marcellus was compelled to give up all hopes of carrying the city by open force, and to turn the siege into a blockade. The siege was prolonged far on into the summer of B.C. 212, nor did there appear any prospect of its term- ination, as the communications of the besieged by sea were al- most entirely open. In this state of things Marcellus fortunately Jiscovered a part of the walls more accessible than the rest; and, having prepared scaling ladders, effected an entrance at this point during the night which followed a great festival, and thus made himself master of Epipola?. The two quarters called Tyche and Neapolis were now at his mercy, and were given up to plunder; but Epicydes still held the island-citadel and the important quar- ter of Achradina, which formed two separate and strong fortresses. Mai-cclltis, however, made himself master of the fort of Euryalus, and had closely invested Achradina, when the Carthaginian army under Himilco and Hippocrates advanced to the relief of the city. Their efforts were, however, in vain ; all their attacks on the camp of Marcellus were repulsed, and they were unable to effect a junc- tion with Epicydes and the Syracusan garrison. The unhcalthi- ness of the country soon gave rise to a pestilence which carried off both the Carthaginian generals and led to the entire break-up of the army. Shortly afterward the treachery of a leader of Spanish mercenaries in the Syracusan service opened to Marcellus the gates of Achradina, and in the general attack that ensued he made him- self master of the island of Ortygia also. The city was given up to plunder, and Archimedes was slain by a Roman soldier, being so intent upon a mathematical problem at the time that he did not answer a question that was asked him. He was deeply regretted by Marcellus, who gave orders for his burial, and befriended his surviving relatives. f The booty found in the captured city was immense : besides the money in the royal treasury, which Avas set apart for the coffers of the state, Marcellus carried off many of the works of art with which the city had been adorned, to grace his own triumph and the tem- ples at Rome. This was the first instance of a practice which after- ward became so general ; raid it gave great offense not only to tha Greeks of Sicily, but to a large party at Rome itself. * The story that Arclnme^cd set the r.cmr.n ships on fire by the reflected mya of the sun is probably a fiction, though Liter writers give an account of this burn- ing mirror. t Upon his tomb was placed the figure of a sphere inscribed in a cylinder. When Cicero was Quaestcr in Sicily (is.c. 75), he found his tomb near one of the gates of the city almost hid among briers, and forgotten by the Syracusans. B.C. 215-207. SECOND PUNIC WAR, SECOND PERIOD. 93 The fall of Syracuse was followed, though not imm?diately, by the subjugation of the whole island by the Romans ; but these suc- cesses were counterbalanced by the defeat arid death of the two Scipios in Spain. We have already seen that P. Scipio, when he landed at Massilia and found himself unable to overtake Hannibal in Gaul, sent his brother Cneius with the army into Spain, while he himself returned to Italy. In the following year (B.C. 21 7> Publius himself crossed over into Spain, where he found that his brother had already obtained n firm footing. They continued in Spain for several years, during which they gained many victories, and prevented Hasdrubal from marching into Italy to support his victorious brother. When Hasdrubal was recalled to Africa to oppose Syphax, one of the Numidian kings, who was carrying on war against Carthage, the Scipios availed themselves of his absence to strengthen their power still farther. They gained over new tribes to the Roman cause, took 20,000 Ccltibevians into their pay, and felt themselves so strong in B.C. 212 that they resolved to cross the Iberus and to make a vigorous effort to drive the Cartha- ginians out of Spain. They accordingly divided their forces; but the result was fatal. Publius was destroyed, with the greater part of his troops; and Cneius w r as also defeated, and fell in battle, twenty-nine days after the deatli of his brother. These victories seemed to establish the superiority of Carthage in Spain, and open the way for Hasdrubal to join his brother in Italy. In Italy (B.C. 212) the two Consuls Appius Claudius and Q. Ful~ vius began to draw together their forces for the purpose of besieg- ing Capua. Hannibal advanced to relieve it, and compelled the Consuls to withdraw ; but he was unable to force either of them to fight. Shortly afterward he returned again to the south to urge on the siege of the citadel of Tarentum, which still held out ; and he spent the winter and the whole of the ensuing spring (B.C. 211) in its immediate neighborhood. But during his absence the Con- suls ha 1 renewed the siege of Capua, and prosecuted it with such activity, that they had succeeded in surrounding the city with a double line of intrenchments. The pressing danger once more sum- moned Hannibal to its relief. He accordingly presented himself before the Roman camp, and attacked their lines from without, whili rhe garrison co-operated with him by a vigorous sally from f.hc walls. Both attacks were however repulsed, and Hannibal, foiled in his attempt to raise the siege by direct means, determined on the bold manoeuvre of marching directly upon Rome itself, in hopes of thus compelling the Consuls to abandon their designs upon Capua, in order to provide for the defense of the city. But this daring scheme was again frustrated ; the appearance ofHanni- 06 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XIII. bal before the gates of Rome for a moment struck terror through the city ; but a considerable body of troops was at the time within the walls ; and the Consul Fulvius, as soon as he heard of Hanni- bal's march, hastened, with a portion of the besieging army, from Capua, while he still left with the other Consul a force amp\v suf- ficient to carry on the Biegc. Hannibal was thus disappointed in the main object of his advance, and he had no means of effecting sny thing against Rome itself, where Fulvius and Fabius confined themselves strictly to the defensive, allowing him to ravage the whole country without opposition, up to the very walls of Rome. Nothing therefore remained for him but to retreat, and lie accord- ingly recrossed the Anio, and marched slowly and sullenly through the land of the Sabines and Samnites, ravaging the country which he traversed. From thence he retired to the Bruttii, leaving Capua to its fate. The city soon after surrendered to the Romans. Its punishment was terrible. All the leaders of the insurrection were beheaded ; the chief men were imprisoned ; and the rest of the people were sold. The city and its territory were confiscated, and became part of the Roman domain. The commencement of the next season (B.C. 210) was marked by the fall of Salapia, which was betrayed by the inhabitants to Marcellus ; but this loss was soon avenged by the total defeat and destruction of the army of the Proconsul Cn. Fulvius at Herdonea. The Consul Marcellus, on his part, carefully avoided an action for the rest of the campaign, while he harassed his opponent by every possible means. Thus the rest of that summer too wore away without any important results. But this state of comparative in- activity was necessarily injurious to the cause of Hannibal ; the nations of Italy that had espoused that cause when triumphant now began to waver in their attachment ; and in the course of the following summer (B.C. 209) the Samnites and Lucanians submit- ted to Rome, and were admitted to favorable terms. A still more disastrous blow to the Carthaginian cause was the loss of Taren- tum, which was betrayed into the hands of Fabius, as it had been into those of Hannibal. In vain did the latter seek to draw the Roman general into a snare ; the wary Fabius eluded his toils; The recovery of Tarcntum was the last exploit in the military life of the aged Fabius, and was a noble completion to his long list of achievements. From the time of the battle of Cannaj he had di- rected almost exclusively the councils of his country, and his policy had been pre-eminently successful ; but the times now demanded bolder measures, and something else was necessary than the cau- tion of the Lingerer to bring the war to a close. After the fall of Tarentum Hannibal still traversed the open B.C. 215-207. SECOND TUNIC WAK: SECOND PEIIIOD. 9? country unopposed, and laid waste the territories of his enemies. Yet we can not suppose that he any longer looked for ultimate suc- cess from any efforts of his own; his object was doubtless now only to maintain his ground in the south until his brother Hasdrubai should appear in the north of Italy, an event to which he had long anxiously looked forward. Yet the following summer (B.C. 208) was marked by some brilliant achievements. The two Consuls, Crispinus and Marcellus, who were opposed to Hannibal in Luca- nia, allowed themselves to be led into an ambush, in which Mar- cellus was killed, and Crispinus mortally wounded. Marcellus was one of the ablest of the Koman generals. Hannibal displayed a generous sympathy fur his fate, and caused due honors to be paid to his remains. The following year (r,.c. 207) decided the issue of the war in Italy. The war in Spain dining the last few years had been car- ried on with brilliant success by the young P. Scipio, of whose ex- ploits we shall speak presently. But in B.C. 208, Hasdrubai, leav- ing the two other Carthaginian generals to make head against Scipio, resolved to set out for Italy to the assistance of his brother. As Scipio was in undisputed possession of the province north of the Iberus, and had secured the passes of the Pyrenees on that side, Hasdrubai crossed these mountains near their western ex- tremity, and plunged into the heart of Gaul. After spending a winter in that country, he prepared to cross the Alps in the spring of B.C. 207, and to descend into Italy. The two Consuls for thi year were C. Claudius Nero and M. Livius. Nero marched into Southern Italy to keep a watch upon Hannibal ; Livius took up his quarters at Ariminum to oppose Hasdrubai. The latter ex- perienced little loss or difficulty in crossing the Alps. The season of the year was favorable, and the Gauls were friendly to his cause. But instead of pushing on at once into the heart of" Italy, he allow- ed himself to be engaged in the siege of Placentia, and lost much precious time in fruitless efforts to reduce that colony. When at length he abandoned the enterprise, he sent messengers to Hanni- bal to apprize him of his movements, and concert measures for their meeting in Umbria. But his dispatches fell into the hands of the Consul Nero, who formed the bold resolution of instantly marching with a picked body of 7000 men to join his colleague, and fall upon Hasdrubai with their united forces before Hannibal could receive any information of his brother's movements. Nero executed his design with equal secrecy and rapidity. Hannibal knew nothing of his departure, and in a week's time Nero marched 250 miles to Sena, where his colleague was encamped in presence of Hasdrubai. He entered the camp of Livius in the night, that G i>8 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. Xlli his arrival might not be known to the Carthaginians. After a day's rest the two Consuls proceeded to offer battle ; but Hasdru- bal, perceiving the augmented numbers of the Romans, and hear- ing the trumpet sound twice, felt convinced that the Consuls had united their forces, and that his brother had been defeated. Ho therefore declined the combat, and in the following night com' menced his retreat toward Ariminum. The Romans pursued him, and he found himself compelled to give them battle on the right bank of the Metaurus. On this occasion Hasdrubal displayed all the qualities of a consummate general ; but his forces were great- ly inferior to those of the enemy, and his Gaulish auxiliaries were of little service. The gallant resistance of the Spanish and Ligu- rian troops is attested by the heavy loss of the Romans , but all was of no avail, and seeing the battle irretrievably lost, he rushed into the midst of the enemy, and fell, sword in hand, in a manner worthy of the son of Hamilcar and the brother of Hannibal. The Consul Nero hastened back to Apulia almost as speedily as he had come, and announced to Hannibal the defeat and death of hie brother by throwing into his camp the severed head of Hasdrubal. "I recognize," said Hannibal, sadly, "the doom of Carthage." The victory of the Metaurus was, as we have already said, deci- sive of the fate of the war in Italy, and the conduct of Hannibal shows that he felt it to be such. From this time he abandoned all thoughts of offensive operations, and, withdrawing his garrisons from Metapontum and other towns that he still held in Lucania, collected together his forces within the peninsula of the Bruttii. In the fastnesses of that wild and mountainous region he maintained his ground for nearly four years, while the towns that he still pos- sessed on the coast gave him the command of the sea. Hannibal. CHAPTER XIV. SECOND PUNIC AVAR. THIRD PERIOD : FROM THE BATTLE OP THE 3IKTAURUS TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE WAR. B.C. 206-201. AFTER the battle of the Metaurus, the chief interest of the war was transferred to Spain and Africa. The Roman armies were led by a youthful hero, perhaps the greatest man that Rome ever pro- duced, with the exception of Julius Caesar. The remaining period of the war is little more than the history of P. Scipio. This ex- traordinary man was the son of P. Scipio, who fell in Spain in B.C. 212, as already related. In his early years he acquired, to an ex- traordinary extent, the confidence and admiration of his country- men. His enthusiastic mind led him to believe that he was a special favorite of heaven ; and he never engaged in and public or private business without first going to the Capitol, where he sat some time alone, enjoying communion with the gods. For all he proposed or executed he alleged fhe divine approval : he believed himself in the revelations which he asserted had been vouchsafed to him ; and the extraordinary success which attended all his en- terprises deepened this belief. P. Scipio is first mentioned in B.C. 218 at the battle of the Tici- nus, where he is reported to have saved the life of his father, though he was then only 17 years of age. He fought at Cannce two years afterward (B.C. 210), when he was already a tribune of the soldiers, s,nd was one of the few Roman officer.'' who survived that fatal 100 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XIV. day. He was chosen along with Appius Claudius to command the remains of the army, which had taken refuge at Canusium ; and it was owing to his youthful heroism and presence of mind that the Roman nobles, who had thought of leaving Italy in despair, were prevented from carrying their rash project into effect. He had already gained the favor of the people to such an extent that he was unanimously elected JEdile in B.C. 212. On this occasion he gave indications of the proud spirit, and of the disregard of all the forms of law, which distinguished him throughout life ; for when the tribunes objected to the election, because he was not of the legal age, he haughtily replied, "If all the Quirites wish to make me JEdile, I am old enough." After the death of Scipio's father and uncle, C. Nero was sent out as Propraetor to supply their place ; but shortly afterward the Senate resolved to increase the army in Spain, and to place it under the command of a Proconsul to be elected by the people. But when they were assembled foi' this purpose, none of the generals of experience ventured to apply for so dangerous a command. At length Scipio, who was then barely twenty-four, to the surprise of every one, offered himself as a candidate. But the confidence which he felt in himself he com- municated to the people, and he was accordingly chosen with en- thusiasm to take the command. Scipio arrived in Spain in the summer of B.C. 210. He found that the three Carthaginian generals, Hasdrubal, son of Barca. Has- drubal, son of Gisco, and Mago, were not on good terms, and were at the time engaged in separate enterprises in distant parts of the peninsula. Instead of attacking any of them singly, he formed the project of striking a deadly blow at the Carthaginian power by a sudden and unexpected attack upon New Carthage. He gave the command of the fleet to his intimate friend La-lius, to whom alone he intrusted the secret of the expedition, while he led the land-forces by extremely rapid marches against the city. The project was crowned with complete success. The Carthaginian garrison did not amount to more than a thousand men, and before any succor could arrive New Carthage was taken by assault. The hostages who had been given by the various Spanish tribes to the Carthaginians had been placed for security in the city. These now fell into the hands of Scipio, who treated them with kindness ; and the hostages of those people who declared themselves in favor of the Romans were restored without ransom. Scipio also found in New Carthage magazines of arms, corn, and other necessaries, for the Carthaginians had there deposited their principal stores. The immediate effects of this brilliant success were immense. Many of the Spanish tribes deserted the Carthaginian cause; and B.C. 206-201. SECOND PUNIC WAR; THIRD PERIOD. 101 whan Scipio took the field in the following year (B.C. 200) Mando- nius and Indibilis, two of the most powerful and hitherto the most faithful supporters of Carthage, quitted the camp of Hasdrubal Barca, and awaited the arrival of the Roman commander. Has- drubal was encamped in a strong position near the town of Baceu- la, in the upper valley of the Batis (Guadal-quiver), where he was attacked and defeated by Scipio. He succeeded, however, in mak- ing good his retreat, and retired into northern Spain. He subse- quently crossed the Pyrenees, and marched into Italy to the assist- ance of his brother Hannibal, as already narrated. In B.C. 207 Scipio gained possession of nearly the whole of Spain, by a decisive victory near a place variously called Silpia or Elinga, but the position of which is quite uncertain. Hasdrubal, son of Gisco, and Mago, took refuge within the walls of Gades, Avhich was almost the only place that now belonged to the Carthaginians ; and all the native chiefs hastened to acknowl- edge the supremacy of Rome. But the victories of Scipio had had but a small share in. winning Spain. His personal influence had won far more people than his arms had conquered. He had gain- ed such an ascendency over the Spaniards by his humanity and courage, .his courtesy and energy, that they were ready to lay down their lives for him, and wished to make him their king. The subjugation of Spain was regarded by Scipio as only a means to an end. He had formed the project of transferring the war to Africa, and thus compelling the Carthaginians to recall Hannibal from Italy. He therefore resolved, before returning to Rome, to cross over into Africa, and secure, if possible, the friendship and co-operation of some of the native princes. His personal influenco had already secured the attachment of Masinissa, the son of the king of the Massylians, or Western Numidians, who was serving in the Carthaginian army in Spain ; and he trusted that the same personal ascendency might gain the more powerful support of Sy- phax, the king of the Massasylians, or Eastern Numidians. With only two quinqueremes he ventured to leave his province and re- pair to the court of Syphax. There he met his old adversary, Hasdrubal, son of Gisco, who had crossed over from Gades for the same purpose ; and the two generals spent several days together in friendly intercourse. Scipio made a great impression upon Sy- phax ; but the charms of Sophonisba, the daughter of Hasdrubal, whom the latter offered in marriage to Syphax, prevailed over the influence of Scipio. Syphax married her, and from that time be- came the zealous supporter and ally of the Carthaginians. During Scipio's absence in Africa a formidable insurrection had broken out in Spain ; but on his return it was speedily put down, 102 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XIV. and terrible vengeance was inflicted upon the town of Illiturgis, which had taken the principal share in the revolt. Scarcely had this danger passed away when Scipio was seized with a dangerous illness. Eight thousand of the Roman soldiers, discontented with not having received their usual pay, availed themselves of this op- portunity to break out into open mutiny ; but Scipio quelled it with his usual promptitude and energy. He crushed the last re- mains of the insurrection in Spain ; and to crown his other suc- cesses, Gades at last surrendered to the Romans. Mago had quit- ted Spain, and crossed over into Liguria, to effect a diversion in favor of his brother Hannibal, and there was therefore now no longer any enemy left in Spain. Scipio returned to Rome in B.C. 206, and immediately offered himself as a candidate for the consulship. He was elected for the following year (B.C. 205) by the unanimous votes of all the centu- ries, although he had not yet filled the office of Traitor, and was only 30 years of age. His colleague was P. Licinius Crassus, the Pontifex Maximus, who could not, therefore, leave Italy. Conse- quently, if the war was to be carried on abroad, the conduct of it must of necessity devolve upon Scipio. The latter was anxious to land at once in Africa, and bring the contest to an end at t the gates of Carthage ; but the older members of the Senate, and among them Q. Fabius Maximus, opposed the project, partly through ti- midity and partly through jealousy of the youthful conqueror. All that Scipio could obtain was the province of Sicily, with permission to invade Africa if he should think it for the advantage of the Re- public ; but the Senate resolutely refused him an army, thus mak- ing the permission of no practical use. The allies had a truer view of the interests of Italy than the Roman Senate ; from all the towns of Italy volunteers flocked to join the standard of the youth- ful hero. The Senate could not refuse to allow him to enlist these volunteers; and such was the enthusiasm in his favor that he was able to cross over to Sicily with an army and a fleet, contrary tc the expectations and even the wishes of the Senate. While busy with preparations in Sicily, he sent over Lozlius to Africa with a small fleet to concert a plan of co-operation with Masinissa. But mean- ime his enemies at Rome had nearly succeeded in depriving him of his command. Although he had no authority in Lower Italy, he had assisted in the reduction of Locri. and after the conquest of the town had left Q. Pleminius in command. The latter had been guilty of such acts of excesses against the inhabitants, that they sent an embassy to Rome to complain of his conduct. Q. Fabius Maximus eagerly availed himself of the opportunity to in- veigh in general against the conduct of Scipio, and to urge his inv B.C.20G-201. SECOND TUNIC WAR : THIRD PERIOD. 103 mediate recall. Scipio's magnificent style of living, and his love of Greek literature and art, were denounced by his enemies as dan- gerous innovations upon old Roman manners and frugality. It was asserted that the time which ought to be given to the exercise and the training of his troops was wasted in the Greek gymnasia or in literary pursuits. Though the Senate lent a willing ear to these attacks, they did not venture upon his immediate recall, but sent a commission into Sicily to inquire into the state of the army. During the winter Scipio had been busy in completing his prepara- tions; and by this time he had collected all his stores, and brought his army and navy into the most efficient state. The commission- ers were astonished at what they saw. Instead of ordering him to return to Rome, they bade him cross over to Africa as soon as possible. Accordingly, in B.C. 204, Scipio, who was now Proconsul, sailed from Lilyba:um and landed in Africa, not far from Utica. He was immediately joined by Masinissa, who rendered him the most im- portant services in the war. He commenced the campaign by lay- ing siege to Utica, and took up his quarters on a projecting head- land to the east of the town, on a spot which long bore the name of the Cornelian Camp. Meantime the Carthaginians had collect- ed a powerful army, which they placed under the command of Hasdrubal, son of Cisco, Scipio's old opponent in Spain ; and Sy- phax came to their assistance with a great force. In the beginning of B.C. 203 Scipio planned a night-attack upon the two camps occupied by Hasdrubal and Syphax. With the as- sistance of Masinissa, his enterprise was crowned with success : the two camps w r ere burned to the ground, and only a few of the enemy escaped the fire and the sword. Among- these, however, were "both Hasdrubal and Syphax ; the former fled to Carthage, where he persuaded the Senate to raise another army, and the lat- ter retreated to his native dominions, where he likewise collected fresh troops. But their united forces were again defeated by Scipio. Hasdrubal did not venture to make his appearance again in Carthage, and Syphax once more fled into Numidia. Scipio did not give the N umidian prince any repose ; he was pursued by Laslius and Masinissa, and finally taken prisoner. Among the captives who fell into their hands was Sophonisba, the wife of Sy- phax, whom Masinissa had long loved, and had expected to marry when she was given to his rival. Masinissa now not only promised to preserve her from captivity, hut, to prevent her falling into the hands of the Romans, determined to marry her himself. Their nup- tials were accordingly celebrated without delay; but Scipio, fear- ful of the influence which she might exercise over his ally, sternly 104 HISTORY OF KOME. CHAP. XIV. upbraided him with his weakness, and insisted on the immediate surrender of the princess. Unable to resist this command, Masi- nissa spared her the humiliation of captivity by sending her a bowl of poison, which she drank without hesitation, and thus put an end to her own life. These repeated disasters so alarmed the Carthaginians that thy resolved to recall Hannibal and Mago. Hannibal quitted Italy in B.C. 203, to the great joy of the Romans. For more than 15 years had lie carried on the war in that country, laying it waste from one extremity to another ; and during all this period his superiority in the field had been uncontested. The Romans calculated that in these 15 years their losses in the field alone had amounted to not less than 300,000 men ; a statement which will hardly appear ex- aggerated when we consider the continued combats in which they \vero engaged by their ever-watchful foe. As soon as Hannibal landed in Africa the hopes of the Cartha- ginians revived, and they looked forward to a favorable termina- tion of the war. Hannibal, however, formed a truer estimate of the real state of affairs ; he saw that the loss of a battle would be the ruin of Carthage, and he was therefore anxious to conclude a peace before it was too late. Scipio, who was eager to have the glory of bringing the war to a close, and who feared lest his ene- mies in the Senate might appoint him a successor, was equally de- sirous of a peace. The terms, however, which the Roman general proposed seemed intolerable to the Carthaginians ; and as Hanni- bal, at a personal interview with Scipio, could not obtain any abate- ment of the hard conditions, he was forced, against his will, to con- tinue the war. Into the details of the campaign, which are re- lated very differently, our limits will not permit us to enter. The decisive battle was at length fought on the 19th of October, B.C. 202, on the Bagradas, not far from the city of Zama; and Hanni- bal, according to the express testimony of his antagonist, displayed on this occasion all the qualities of a consummate general. But he was now particularly deficient in that formidable cavalry which had so often decided the victory in his favor; his elephants, of which he had a great number, were rendered unavailing by the skillful management of Scipio ; and the battle ended in his com- plete defeat, notwithstanding the heroic exertions of his veteran in- fantry. Twenty thousand of his men fell on the field of battle, as many were made prisoners, and Hannibal himself with difficulty escaped the pursuit of Masinissa. Upon his arrival at Carthage he was the first to admit the magnitude of the disaster, and to point out the impossibility of the farther prosecution of the war. The terms, however, now imposed by Scipio were much more se- B.C. 206-201. SECOND TUNIC WAR: THIRD PERIOD. 105 vere than before. Carthage had no alternative but submission ; but the negotiations were continued for some time, and a final treaty was not concluded till the following year (K.C. 201). By this treaty it was agreed that the Carthaginians were to preserve their independence and territory in Africa, but to give up all claims t any foreign possessions ; that they were to surrender all prison- ers and deserters, all their ships of war except ten triremes, and all their elephants ; that they were not to make war in Africa, or out of Africa, without the consent of Rome ; that they were to ac- knowledge Masinissa as king of Numidia ; that they were to pay 10,000 talents in silver in the course of fifty years. Scipio returned to Italy in B.C. 201, and entered Rome in tri- umph. He was received with universal enthusiasm j the surname of Africanus was conferred upon him, and the people, in their grati- tude, were anxious to distinguish him with the most extraordinary marks of honor. It is related that they wished to make him Con- sul and Dictator for life, and to erect his statue in the Comitia, the Senate-house, and even in the Capitol, but that he prudently declined all these invidious distinctions. r^-o Coin of Antiochus the Great. CHAPTER XV. WARS IN THE EAST. THE MACEDONIAN, SYRIAN, AND GALATIAN WARS. B.C. 214-188. THE Second Punic War made the Romans undisputed masters of the western shores of the Mediterranean. Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica were Roman provinces ; Spain owned the Roman suprem- acy ; Carthage was completely humbled, and her powerful neigh- bor Masinissa was the steadfast ally of Rome. Thejioman Re- public was now the most powerful state in the ancient world. Her legions had been trained to war by long struggles with Gauls, Spaniards, and Africans, and were superior to all other troops in discipline, experience, and valor. She now naturally turned her eyes toward the East, whose effeminate nations seemed to offer an easy conquest. The Greek kingdoms in Asia, founded by the successors of Alexander the Great, bore within them the seeds of decay. The mighty kingdom of SYRIA, which had once extended from the In- dus to the JEgean Sea, had now lost some of its fairest provinces. The greater part of Asia Minor no longer o\vned the authority of the Syrian kings. PONTUS was governed by its own rulers. A large body of Gauls had settled in the northern part of Phrygia, which district was now called GALATIA after them. A new king- dom was founded in Mysia, to which the name of PERGAMUS was given from its chief city ; and Attains, who was king of Pergamus during the Second Punic War, formed an alliance with Rome as a protection against Syria and Macedonia. The king of Syria at this time was Antiochus III., who, from his victory over the Parthians, had received the surname of the Great. 13.C. 214-188. WARS IN THE EAST. 107 EGYPT was governed by the Greek monarchs who bore the name of Ptolemy. They had, even as early 4is the time of Pyr- Thus, formed an alliance with Rome (see p. GG). The kingdom had since declined in power, and upon the death of Ptolemy IV., sur- named Philopator, in B.C. 205, the ministers of his infant son Ptol- emy Epiphanes, dreading the ambitious designs of the Macedonian and Syrian kings, placed him under the protection of the Roman- Senate, who consented to become his guardians. The Republic of RHODES was the chief maritime power in the ZEgean Sea. It extended its dominion over a portion of the op- posite coasts of Caria and Lycia, and over several of the neighbor- ing islands. Like the king of Pergamus, the Rhodians had form- ed an alliance with Rome as a protection against Macedonia. MACEDONIA was still a powerful kingdom, governed at this time by Philip V., a monarch of considerable ability, who ascended the throne in B.C. 220, at the early age of seventeen. His dominion extended over the greater part of Greece ; but two new powers had sprung up since the death of Alexander, which served as some counterpoise to the Macedonian supremacy. Of these the most important was the ACHAEAN LEAGUE, which embraced Corinth, Ar- cadia, and the greater part of the Peloponnesus.* The ^TOLIAN LEAGUE included at this time a considerable portion of Central Greece. ATHENS and SPARTA still retained their independence, but with scarcely a shadow of their former greatness and power. Such was the state of the Eastern world when it came into con- tact with the arms of Rome. We have already seen that during the Second Punic War Philip had been engaged in hostilities with the Roman Republic. De- metrius of Pharos, who had been driven by the Romans from his Illyrian dominions,! had taken refuge at the court of Philip, and soon acquired unbounded influence over the mind of the young king. This wily Greek urged him to take up arms against the grasping Republic ; and the ambition of Philip was still farther excited by the victories of Hannibal. After the battle of Cannoe (B.C. 21G) he concluded a treaty with Hannibal; but, instead of supporting the Carthaginian army and fleet, his proceedings were marked by an unaccountable degree of hesitation and delay. It was not till B.C. 214 that he appeared in the Adriatic with a fleet, and laid siege to Oricus and Apollonia, which the Romans had re- tained possession of at the close of the Illyrian war.f He succeed- ed in taking Oricus ; but the arrival of a small Roman force, un- der the command of M. Valerius Larvinus, compelled him to raise the siege of Apollonia, and to burn his o\vn ships to prevent their * See the " Smaller History of Greece," p. 214. t See p. 79. 108 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XV. falling into the hands of the enemy. For the next three years the war was carried on with unaccountable slackness on both sides ; but in B.C. 211 it assumed a new character in consequence of the alliance which the Romans formed with the ^Etoliun League. Into the details of the campaigns which followed it is unnecessary to enter ; but the attention of the Romans was soon afterward di- rected to affairs in Spain, and the -ZEtolians were left almost alone to cope with Philip. The Achceans also joined Philip against the s/Etolians, and the latter people were so hard pressed that they were glad to make peace with the Macedonian king. Shortly aft- erward the Romans, who were desirous of turning their undivided attention to the invasion of Africa, also concluded peace with him (B.C. 205). The peace, which thus terminated the First Macedonian War, was probably regarded by both parties as little more than a sus- pension of hostilities. Philip even went so far as to send to the Carthaginians in Africa a body of 4000 men, who fought at Zama under the command of Hannibal. At the same time he proceeded to carry out his plans for his own aggrandizement in Greece, with out any regard to the Roman alliances in that country. In order to establish his naval supremacy in the ^Egcan Sea, he attacked the Rhodians and Attalus, king of Pergamus, both of whom were allies of Rome. He had also previously made a treaty with An- tiochus, king of Syria, for the dismemberment of the Egyptian monarchy, which was placed under the guardianship of the Roman people. It was impossible for the Senate to pass over these acts of hos- tility, and accordingly, in the year after the conclusion of the Sec- ond Punic War, the Consul P. Sulpicius Galba proposed to the Comitia of the Centuries that war should be declared against Phil- ip. But the people longed for repose, and rejected the proposition by the almost unanimous vote of every century. It was only by the most earnest remonstrance, and by representing to them that, unless they attacked Philip in Greece, he would invade Italy, like Hannibal, that they were induced to reverse their decision and de- dare war (B.C. 200). Philip was at this time engaged in the siege of Athens, which had joined Attalus and the Rhodians. The Consul Galba crossed over to Epirus, and Athens was relieved by a Roman fleet ; but before he withdrew, Philip, prompted by anger and revenge, dis- played his barbarism by destroying the gardens and buildings in the suburbs, including the Lyceum and the tombs of the Attic he- roes ; and in a second incursion which he made with large re-en- forcements he committed still greater excesses. For some time, B.C. 214-188. WARS IN THE EAST. 109 however, the war lingered on without any decided success on either side. The Consul Villius, who succeeded Galba in B.C. 199, ef- fected nothing of importance, and it was not till the appointment of the Consul T. Quinctius Flamininus to the command that the war was carried on with energy and vigor (B.C. 198). He forced his way through the passes of Antigonea, which were occupied by the enemy, invaded Thessaly, and took up his winter quarters in Phocis and Locris. In the following year (B.C. 197) the struggle was brought to a termination by the battle of Cynoscephalas (Dogs' Heads), a range of hills near Scotussa, in Thessaly. The Roman legions gained an easy victory over the once formidable Macedo- nian phalanx : 8000 Macedonians were killed and 5000 taken pris- oners, while Flamininus lost only 700 men. Philip was obliged to sue for peace, and in the following year (B.C. 19G) a treaty was ratified by which the Macedonians were compelled to renounce their supremacy, to withdraw their garrisons from the Grecian towns, to surrender their fleet, and to pay 1000 talents for the ex- penses of the war, half at once, and half by annual instalments in the course of ten years. Thus ended the SECOND MACEDONIAN WAR. At the ensuing Isthmian games, which were celebrated at Cor- inth in the summer of this year, Flamininus was present, and a herald at his command solemnly proclaimed the independence and freedom of Greece. This unexpected news was received with overwhelming gratitude and joy; the throngs of people that crowd- ed round Flamininus to catch a sight of their liberator, or to touch his garment, were so enormous as almost to endanger his life. Flamininus remained two years longer in Greece in order to settle the affairs of the country. He seems to have been actuated by a sincere desire to restore the internal peace and welfare of Greece; and whenever his actions appear at variance with this object, he was under the influence of the policy of the Republic. Thus, though he made war upon Nabis, the tyrant of Sparta, and deprived him of the southern portion of Laconia, he did not expel him from Sparta, that he might serve as a useful check upon tho Achasans. When Flamininus returned to Italy in B.C. J94, he withdrew the Roman garrisons from all the Grecian towns, even from Corinth, Chalcis, and Demetrias, the three strongest fortresses in the country, which were called the Fetters of Greece. On his departure he convoked an assembly of the Greeks at Corinth, in which he exhorted them to use their freedom wisely, and to re- main faithful to Rome. Flamininus had been absent five years. His reputation was second only to that of Scipio Africanus. His triumph, which was nu.-st magnificent, lasted three days. 1 10 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XV It lias been already mentioned that Philip had formed an al- liance with Antiochus III., king of Syria, surnamed the Great, for the dismemberment of the Egyptian monarchy. During the war between Philip and the Romans, Antiochus had occupied Asia Mi- nor, and was preparing to cross into Greece. Upon the conclu- sion of this war, Flamininus sternly forbade him to set foot in Eu- rope, and for a time he shrank from a contest with the victorious arms of Rome. But the JEtolians, who had fought on the Roman side, were discontented with the arrangements of Flamininus. Their arrogance led them to claim the chief merit of the victory of CynoscephalaB, and their cupidity desired a larger share in the spoils of the war. Flamininus had scarcely quitted Greece before the ^Etolians endeavored to persuade Philip, Nabis, and Antiochus to enter into a league against the Romans. Philip at once re- fused, but Nabis took up arms, and Antiochus willingly entered into the designs of the JEtolians. At this time Hannibal appear- ed as an exile at the Syrian court. After the Second Punic War he had set himself to work, like his father Hamilcar at the end of the previous war, to prepare means for renewing the contest at no distant period. He introduced various reforms in the constitu- tion, and seems to have deprived the Oligarchy of their exclusive power ; but they avenged themselves by denouncing him to the Romans as engaged in negotiations with Antiochus to induce him to take up arms against Rome. The Senate sent envoys to Car- thage to inquire into these charges ; and Hannibal, seeing that his enemies were too strong for him, secretly took flight, and reached the court of Antiochus in safety. He was received with the high- est honors, and urged the king to place an army at his disposal with which he might invade Italy. But Antiochus was persuaded by tho ^Etolians to cross over into Greece, and accordingly landed at Demetrias in Thessaly in B.C. 192. The Romans now declared war against Antiochus, and in the following year (B.C. 191) the Consul Acilius Glabrio marched into Thessaly. The king had intrenched himself in the passes of Thermopylae, that he might prevent the Romans from penetrating into Central Greece. But there was, as is well known, a difficult passage acrtoss Mount (Eta, by which the Persians had descended to fight with Leonidas. This passage was now forced by M. Cato, who was serving as one of the Consul's lieutenants, and as soon as he appeared in the rear of the Syrian army they fled in confusion, and the battle was won. Antiochus now hastened back to Asia, abandoning all farther hopes of conquest in Greece. As soon as he had placed the sea between himself and the Romans he thought that he was safe ; but Hanm* B.C.2U-188. WARS IN THE EAST. Ill bal warned him of his error, and said that he wondered that the Romans had not already followed him. Next year (B.C. 190) L. Cornelius Scipio, the brother of tha great Africanus, and C. La-lius, the intimate friend of the latter, were Consuls. L. Scipio was anxious to have the command of the war against Antiochus ; but the Senate had not much confidence in his ability, and it was only in consequence of his brother Afri- canus offering to serve under him as his lieutenant that he obtain- ed the command which he desired. Meantime Antiochus had col- lected a vast army from all parts of his dominions, and, advancing northward from Ephcsus, laid waste the kingdom of Fcrgamus. But upon the approach of the Roman army, which entered Asia by crossing the Hellespont, Antiochus retreated southward ; and the decisive battle was fought near Magnesia, at the foot of Mount Si- pylus. The Romans obtained an easy and bloodless victory over the vast but disorderly rabble of the Syrian monarch. Only 400 Romans fell, while Antiochus lost 53,000 men. He at once gave up the contest in despair, and humbly sued for peace. The con- ditions were hard. He had to cede all his dominions west of Mount Taurus (that is, the whole of Asia Minor), to pay 15,000 Euboic talents within twelve years, to give up his elephants and ahips of war, and to surrender to the Romans Hannibal and some others who had taken refuge at his court. Hannibal foresaw his danger, and made his escape to Crete, from whence he aftenvard repaired to the court of Prusias, king of Bithynia. L. Scipio returned to Rome in the following year, bringing with him enormous treasures. In imitation of his brother, he assumed the surname of ASIATICUS. The Romans were now at leisure to punish the ^Etolians, who had to make head against the Romans by themselves. The Con- sul M. Fulvius Nobilior (B.C. 189) took their chief town, Ambra- cia, after an obstinate resistance, and compelled them to sue for peace. This was granted, but on the most humiliating conditions. They were required to acknowledge the supremacy of Rome, to re- nounce all the conquests they had recently made, to pay an indem- nity of 500 talents, and to engage in future to aid the Romans in their wars. The power of the ^Etolian league was thus forever crushed, though it seems to have existed, in name at least, till a much later period. The colleague of M. Fulvius Nobilior was Cn. Manlius Vulso, who had received Asia as his province, that he might conclude the peace which his predecessor, Scipio Asiaticus, had made with An- tiochus, and arrange the affairs of Asia. But Manlius was not content with the subordinate part allotted to him ; and being anx> 112 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XV. ious for booty as much as for glory, he attacked the Galatians in Asia Minor, without waiting for any instructions from the Senate, and in direct opposition to the ten commissioners who had been sent to arrange conjointly with him the affairs of Asia. This was the first instance in which a Roman general had made war without the authority of the Senate or the People ; a dangerous precedent, which was afterward only too faithfully followed. The Galatians Were, as has been already said, a body of Gauls, who, after laying waste a great part of Asia Minor, had settled in the north ofPhry- gia. They had fought in the army of Antiochus at Magnesia, and this supplied Manlius with a pretext for marching against them. He defeated them in two battles, and compelled them to sue for peace. The campaign greatly enriched Manlius and his legions, as the Gauls had accumulated enormous wealth by their many conquests in Asia. Manlius remained another year (B.C. 188) in the East as Pro- consul, and, in conjunction with the ten commissioners, formally concluded the peace with Antiochus, and settled the aifairs of Asia. Eumenes, the king of Pergamus, received Mysia, Lydia, and part of Caria. The Rhodians obtained the remaining portion of Carin, together with Lycia and Pisidia. Manlius returned to Rome in B.C. 187, and his triumph, like that of Scipio Asiaticus, was most magnificent. But his soldiers, like that of Scipio, introduced into the city the luxuries of the East. These campaigns, as we shall presently see, exercised a most injurious influence upon the char- acter of the Roman nobles and people, teaching them to love war for the sake of acquiring wealth, and prompting them to acts of robbery and rapine. b - Roman Soldiers. (From Column of Trajan.) CHAPTER XVI. WARS IN THE WEST. THE GALLIC, LIGURIAN, AND SPANISH WARS. B.C. 200-175. WIIILK the Roman legions in the East were acquiring wealth ami winning easy conquests, their less fortunate comrades in the West were carrying on a severe struggle with the warlike Gauls, Ligurians, and Spaniards. The Romans had hardly concluded the Second Punic War when they received intelligence that Hamilcar, a Carthaginian officer, had excited several tribes in Northern Italy to take up arms against Rome. These were the Gauls on botfi sides of the Po, and the Ligurians, a race of hardy mountaineers, inhabiting the upper Apennines and the Maritime Alps. They commenced the war in B.C. 200 by the capture and destruction of the Roman colony of Placcntia, and by laying siege to that of Cre- mona, the two strong-holds of the Roman dominion in Northern Italy. The Romans now set themselves to work, with the charac- teristic stubbornness of their nation, to subdue thoroughly theso H 114 HISTORY OF BOME. CHAP. XVi tribes. The Insubres and the Ccnomani, to the north of the Po, were the first to yield ; but the Boii resisted for some years all the efforts of the Komans, and it was not till B.C. 191 that the Consul P, Cornelius Scipio Nasica received their final submission. He slaughtered the Boii without mercy, and made it one of the claims of his triumph that he had left only children and old men alive, This warlike people was now thoroughly subdued, and from hence< forth Cisalpine Gaul became a Roman province, and gradually adopted the language and customs of Rome. The submission of the people was secured by the foundation of new colonies and tho formation of military roads. In B.C. 100 a colony was established at Bononia, now Bologna, in the country of the Boii, and six years afterward others were also founded at Mutina (Modena) and Par- ma. A military road made by M. ^Emilius Lepidus. Consul for B.C. 180, and called the Via ^ZEmilia, was a continuation of the Via Elaminia, and ran from Ariminum past Placentia, Mutina, and Parma to Placentia. The subjugation of the Ligurians was a lon^ ger and more difficult task. These hardy mountaineers continued the war, with intermissions, for a period of eighty years. The Komans, after penetrating into the heart of Liguria, were seldom able to effect more than to compel the enemy to disperse, and take refuge in their villages and castles, of which the latter were mount- ain fastnesses, in which they were generally able to defy their pur- suers. But into the details of these long-protracted and inglorious hostilities it is unnecessary to enter. The conquests of Scipio Africanus had driven the Carthaginians out of Spain, and established the Roman supremacy in that coun- try. Accordingly, soon after the end of the Second Punic War (about B.C. 198), the Romans proceeded to consolidate their domin- ion in Spain by dividing it into two provinces, each governed by a Praitor, which were called Hispania Citerior, or Hither Spain, and Hispania Ulterior, or Farther Spain, and divided from each other by the Iberus or the Ebro. But it was little more than the east- ern part of the peninsula that was really subject to Rome. The powerful tribes of the Celtibcrians in Central Spain, the Lusitani- ans in Portugal, and the Cantabrians and Gallrccians in the north- west, still maintained their independence. The division of tho country into two provinces showed that the Romans intended to occupy it permanently, and occasioned a general insurrection. The Consul M. Porcius Cato, of whom we shall speak more fully presently, was sent to put down this insurrection (B.C. 195). The whole country was in arms ; but his military genius and inde- fatigable industry soon re-established the superiority of Rome. He gained several decisive victories, contrived to set tribe against B.C. 200-1 75, WARS IN THE WEST. 115 tribe, and took native mercenaries into his pay. The details of his campaign are full of horrors. We read of the wholesale slaugh- ter of men who had laid down their arms, of multitudes sold as slaves, and of many more who had put themselves to death to es- cape this fate. Cato was not the man to feel any compunctions of conscience in the performance of what he considered a rigorous public task. He boasted of having destroyed more towns in Spain than he had spent days in that country. When he had reduced the whole of Hither Spain to a hollow, sullen, and temporary sub- mission, he returned to Rome, and was rewarded with a triumph. The severe measures of Cato only exasperated the Spaniards. They again took up arms, and continued to resist the Roman Pra> tors for the next sixteen years, till Tib. Sempronius Gracchus, the father of the celebrated tribunes, after gaining several brilliant vic- tories over the Ccltiberians, granted them an honorable peace. By his wise measures and conciliatory conduct he won the affections of the natives, and induced them to submit to the Roman suprem- acy (B.C. 179). It remains to mention two other wars in the West. The Sardin- ians and Corsicans revolted, and held out for two years agains* the Conqueror of Spain (B.C. 177-175). But Gracchus effected their complete subjugation, and brought to Rome so large a num- ber of captives for salo as to give rise to the proverb " Sardi vena- les" for any thing that was cheap and worthless. The Istrians, near the head of the Adriatic Gulf, had been con- quered by the Romans just before the Second Punic War. But their complete subjugation was now necessary, on account of their proximity to the newly-formed province of Cisalpine Gaul. Ac- cordingly, the Consuls invaded Istria in B.C. 178, and in the follow- ing year the whole people was reduced to submission. Temple of Jupiter Capitolinu^. (From a Coin.) Lictora. CHAPTER XVII. IROMAN CONSTITUTION AND ARMY. THE career of foreign conquest upon which the Republic had now entered continued with little or no interruption till the estab- lishment of the Empire. We may here pause to take a brief sur- vey of the form of government, as well as of the military organiza- tion by which these conquests were effected. The earlier history of the Roman constitution has been already related. We have seen how, after a long struggle, the Plebeians acquired complete political equality with the Patricians. In the Second Punic War, the antagonism between the two orders had almost disappeared, and the only mark of separation between them in political matters was the regulation that, of the two Consuls and two Censors, one must be a Patrician and the other a Plebeian. Even this fell into disuse upon the rise of the new Nobility, of which we shall speak in the next chapter. The Patricians gradu- ally dwindled away, and it became the custom to elect both Con- suls and Censors from the Plebeians.* * Two Plebeian Consuls were first appointed in B.G 1T2> and two Plebeian Gen* wars CHAP, XVII. THE ROMAN CONSTITUTION. 117 T. THE MAGISTRATES. Every Roman citizen who aspired to the consulship had to pass through a regular gradation of public offices, and the earliest age at which he could become a candidate for them was fixed by a law passed in B.C. 179, and known by the name of the Lex Annalis. The earliest age for the Quaestorship, which was the first of these magistracies, was 27 years ; for the JEdileship, 37; for the Pratorship, 40; and for the Consulship, 43. All magistrates at Rome were divided into Curules and those who were not Curules. The Curule Magistrates were the Dicta- tors, Censors, Consuls, Praetors, and Curule JEdiles, and were so called because they had the right of sitting upon the Sella Curulis, originally an emblem of kingly power, imported, along with other insignia of royalty, from Etruria. 1. The Qucestora were the paymasters of the state. It was then duty to receive the revenues, and to make all the necessary pay- ments for the military and civil services. There were originally only two Quaestors, but their number was constantly increased with the conquests of the Republic. Besides two Quaestors who always remained at Rome, every Consul or Praetor who conducted a war or governed a province was attended by one of these magistrates. 2. The ^dlleship was originally a Plebeian office, instituted at the same time as the Tribuneship of the Plebs.* To the two Ple- beian JEdiles two Curule JEdiles were added in B.C. 3G5. The four JSdiles in common had the charge of the public buildings,t the care of the cleansing and draining of the city, and the super- intendence of the police. They had also the regulation of the public festivals ; and the celebration of the Ludi Magni, or Great Games, was their especial function. Originally they received a sum of money from the state to defray the expenses of these games, but the grant was withdrawn about the time of the First Punic War ; a measure attended with important consequences, since the higher magistracies were thus confined to the wealthy, who alone could defray the charges of these costly entertainments. After the Macedonian and Syrian wars, the Curule JEdiles often incurred a prodigious expense, with the view of pleasing the people, and se~ Qiiring their votes in future elections. 3. The institution of the Prcctorship in B.C. 366 has been already narrated. There was originally only one Prastor, subsequently called Praetor Urbanus, whose chief duty was the administration of justice. In B.C. 24G a second Praetor was added, who had to decide cases in which foreigners were concerned, and who was hence called Praetor Peregrinus. When the territories of the state extended beyond Italy, new Praetors were created to govern the * See p. 31. t Hence their name, from Mdcz, a temple. 118 HISTORY OF ROME. CiiAp.XVIL provinces. Two Praetors were appointed to take the administra- tion of Sicily and Sardinia (r,.c. 227), and two more were added when the two Spanish provinces were formed (B.C. 197). There were thus six Preetors, two of whom staid in the city and the other four went abroad. Each Projtor was attended by six Lie- tors. 4. The Consuls were the highest ordinary magistrates at Rome, and were at the head both of the state and the army. They con- voked the Senate and the Assembly of the Centuries ; they pre- sided in each, and had to see that the resolutions of the Senate and the People were carried into effect. They had the supreme com- mand of the armies in virtue of the Imperium conferred upon them by a special vote of the People. At the head of the army, they had full power of life and death over their soldiers. They were preceded by twelve lictors, but this outward sign of power was en- joyed by them month by month in turn. The magistrates above-mentioned were elected annually, but it was the practice frequently to prolong the command of the Consuls or Praetors in the provinces under the titles of Proconsuls or Pro- praetors. In the later times of the Republic it was usual for both Consuls and several Prastors to remain at Rome during their year of office, and at its close to take the command of provinces, with the titles of Proconsuls or Propraetors. 5. The Dictatorship, which occurs so often in the early history of the Republic, disappears altogether after the Second Punic War. As the Republic became powerful, and had no longer to dread any enemies in Italy, there was no necessity for such an extraordinary magistracy as the Dictatorship, but whenever internal dangers seemed to require a stronger executive, the Senate invested the Consuls with dictatorial power.* G. The Censors were two in number, elected every five years, but they held their office for n year and a half. They were taken, as a general rule, from those who had been previously Consuls, and their office was regarded as the highest dignity in the state. Their duties, which were very extensive and very important, may be di- vided into three classes, all of which, however, were closely con- nected. (a). Their first and most important duty was to take the Cen- sus. This was not simply a list of the population, according to the modern use of the word, but a valuation of the property of every Roman citizen. This valuation was necessary, not only for the assessment of the property-tax, but also for determining the posi- * Tliis was done by the well-known formula " Videant," or " Dent operarn Con- wile?, ne quid res publica detriment capiat." CHAP. XVIL THE ROMAN CONSTITUTION. 119 iton of every citizen in the state, which was regulated, in accord- ance with the constitution of Servius Tullius, by the amount of his property. Accordingly, the Censors had to draw up lists of tha Classes and Centuries. They also made out the lists of the Sena, tors and Equites, striking out the names of all whom they deemed unworthy, and filling up all vacancies in the Senate. (6.) The Censors possessed a general control over the conduct and morals of the citizens. In the exercise of this important pow- er they were not guided by any rules of law, but simply by their own senss of duty. They punished acts of private as well as pub- lic immorality, and visited with their censure not only offenses against the laws, but every thing opposed to the old Roman char- acter and habits, such as living in celibacy, extravagance, luxury, etc. They had the power of degrading every citizen to a lower rank, of expelling Senators from the Senate, of depriving the Equi- tes of their horses, and of removing ordinary citizens from their tribes, and thus excluding them from all political rights. (c.) The Censors also had the administration of the finances of the state, under the direction of the Senate. They let out the tax- es to the highest bidders for the space of a lustrum, or five years.* They likewise received from the Senate certain sums of money to keep the public buildings, roads, and aqueducts in repair, t and to constnict new public works in Rome and other parts of Italy. Hence we find that many of the great public roads, such as the Via Appia and Via Flaminia, were made by Censors. II. THE SENATE. The Senate was in reality the executive gov- ernment of Rome, and the Magistrates, of whom we have been speaking, were only its ministers. The Senate consisted of Three Hundred members, who held the dignity for life unless expelled by the Censors for reasons already mentioned, but they could not transmit the honor to their sons. All vacancies in the body were filled up by the Censors every five years from those who had held the Qiucstorship or any higher magistracy. The Censors were thus confined in their selection to those who had already received the confidence of the people, and no one could therefore enter the Senate unless he had some experience in political affairs. The power of the Senate was very great. It exercised a control over legislation, since no law could be proposed to the Assemblies of the People unless it had first received the approval of the Sen- * These farmer* of the public revenue were called I\tllfcani. t It is not ea.-y to define with accuracy the respective duties of the Censors and JEdiles in relation to the public buil.ling.s; hut it in:iy he stated in general tha the superintendence of the ^Ivliles \v,\ more in the way ot police, while that of tho Censors had reference to all financial matters- 120 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XVII ate. In many cases " Senatus consulta"* were passed, which had the force of laws without being submitted to the Popular Assem- blies at all. This was especially the case in matters affecting re- ligion, police, administration, the provinces, and all foreign rela- tions. In foreign affairs the authority of the Senate was absolute, with the exception of declaring war and making peace, which needed the sanction of the Centuries. The Senate assigned the provinces into which the Consuls and Prajtors were to be sent ; they determ- ined the manner in which a war was to be conducted, and the number of troops to be levied ; they prolonged the command of a general or superseded him at their pleasure, and on his return they granted or refused him a triumph ; they alone carried on negoti- ations with foreign states, and all embassadors to foreign powers were appointed by the Senate from their own body. In home affairs they had the superintendence in all matters of religion. They had also the entire administration of the finances. When the Republic was in danger the Senate had the power of suspending the laws by the appointment of a Dictator, or by in- vesting the Consuls with dictatorial power, as already mentioned. III. THE POPULAR ASSEMBLIES. 1 . The Comitia Curiata, the Patrician assembly, had become a mere form as early as the First Punic War. The gradual decline of its power has been already traced. It continued to meet for the transaction of certain matters pertaining to the Patrician gentes, but was represented simply by 30 lictors. 2. The constitution of the Comitia Centnriata, as established by Servius Tullius,t had undergone a great change between the time of the Licinian Rogations and the Punic Wars, but both the exact time and nature of this change are unknown. It appears, howev- er, that its object was to give more power and influence to the pop- ular element in the state. For this purpose the 35 tribes were taken as the basis of the new Constitution of the Centuries. Each tribe was probably divided into five property Classes, and each Classis was subdivided into two Centuries, one of Seniores and the other of Juniores. Each tribe would thus contain 10 Centuries, and, consequently, the 35 tribes would have 350 Centuries, so that, with the 18 Centuries of the Knights, the total number of the Cen- turies would be 368. The Comitia of the Centuries still retained the election of the higher magistrates, the power of enacting laws, of declaring war * A Senatus consultum was so called because the Consul who brought a matter before the Senate was said Senatum consulere. t See p. 19. CHAP. XVII. THE ROMAN CONSTITUTION. 121 and making peace, and also the highest judicial functions. Accu- sations for treason were brought before the Centuries, and in all criminal matters every Roman citizen could appeal to them.* But, notwithstanding these extensive powers, their influence in the state was gradually superseded by the Assembly of the Tribes. 3. The Coinitia Tributa obtained its superior influence and pow- er mainly through its Tribunes. The Assembly of the Centuries, being summoned and presided over by the Consuls, was, to a great extent, an instrument in the hands of the Senate, while that of the Tribes, being guided by its own magistrates, and representing the popular element, was frequently opposed to the Senate, and took an active part in the internal administration of the state The increasing power of the Tribunes naturally led to a correspond- ing increase in the power of the Tribes. The right of Intercessionf possessed by the Tribunes was extended to all matters. Thus we find the Tribunes preventing the Consuls from summoning the Senate and from proposing laws to the Coinitia of the Centuries. As the persons of the Tribunes were sacred, the Senate could exer- cise no control over them, while they, on the contrary, could even seize a Consul or a Censor, and throw him into prison. The only effective check which the Senate had upon the proceedings of the Tribunes was, that one Tribune could put his veto upon the acts of his colleagues. Consequently, by securing the support of one member of the body, the Senate Avere able to prevent the other Tribunes from carrying out their plans. The Pleliscita enacted by the Tribes had the same force as the Leges of the Centuries.^ There were thus two sovereign assem- blies at Rome, each independent of the other; that of the Tribes, as already observed, was the most important at the period which we have now readied. IV. FINANCES. The ordinary expenditure of the lloman state was not large. All the magistrates discharged their duties with- out pay ; and the allied troops, which formed so large a portion of a Roman army, were maintained by the allies themselves. The expenses of war were defrayed by a property-tax called Tributtm, which was usually one in a thousand, or one tenth per cent., but after the last war with Macedonia the treasury received such large sums from the provinces that the tributum was abolished. From this time the expenses of the state were almost entirely defrayed by the taxes levied in the provinces. The other revenues of the state, which bore the general name of Vectigalia, may be dismissed * The technical word for this appeal was Provocatio. The word Appellatio sig- nified an appeal from one magistrate to another. t See p. 31. I See p. 40. 122 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XVIL with a few words. They consisted of the rents .arising from the public lands, of the customs' duties, of the taxes upon mines, salt, etc. V. THE ARMY. The Roman army was originally called Legio \ and this name, which is coeval with the foundation of Rome, con- tinued down to the latest times. The Legion was therefore not equivalent to what we call a regiment, inasmuch as it contained troops of all arms, infantry, cavalry, and, when military engines were extensively employed, artillery also. The number of soldiers who, at different periods, were contained in a legion, does not ap- pear to have been absolutely fixed, but to have varied within mod- erate limits. Under Romulus the legion contained 3000 foot-sol- diers. From the expulsion of the Kings until the second year of the Second Punic War the regular number may be fixed at 4000 or 4200 infantry. From the latter period until the consulship of Marius the ordinary number was from 5000 to 5200. For some centuries after Marius the numbers varied from 5000 to 6200, gen- erally approaching to the higher limit. Amid all the variations with regard to the infantry, 300 horsemen formed the regular com- plement of the legion. The organization of the legion differed at different periods. 1. First Period. Scrvivs Tullius. The legion of Servius is so closely connected with the Comitia Centuriata that it has already been discussed,* and it is only necessary to state here that it was a phalanx equipped in the Greek fashion, the front ranks being fur- nished with a complete suit of armor, their weapons being long spears, and their chief defense the round Argolic shield (c/ijteiis'). 2. Second Period. The Great Latin War, B.C. 340. The legion in B.C. 340 had almost entirely discarded the tactics of the phalanx. It was now drawn up in three, or perhaps we ought to say, in five lines. The soldiers of the first line, called Hastati, consisted of j'ouths in the first bloom of manhood, distributed into 15 compa- nies or maniples (inanipuli), a moderate space being left between each. The maniple contained GO privates, 2 centurions (centuri~ ones), and a standard-bearer (vexillarius'). The second line, the Principes, was composed of men in the full vigor of life, divided in like manner into 15 maniples, all heavily armed. The two lines of the Hastati and Principes taken together amounted to 30 mani- ples, and formed the Antepilani. The third line, the Triarii, com- posed of tried veterans, was also in 15 divisions, but each of these was triple, containing 3 maniples. In these triple maniples the veterans, or Triarii proper, formed the front ranks ; immediately be> * See p. 19. UAP.XVII. THE ROMAN ARMY. 123 hind them stood the Rorarii, inferior in age and prowess, while tlte Accensi, or supernumeraries, less trustworthy than either, were posted in the extreme rear. 3. Third Period. During the Wars of the younger Scipio. Un- der ordinary circumstances four legions were levied yearly, two being assigned to each Consul. It must be observed that a regu- lar consular army no longer consisted of Roman, legions only, but f as Italy became gradually subjugated, the various states under the dominion of Rome were bound to furnish a contingent, and the number of allies usually exceeded that of the citizens. They \vere, however, kept perfectly distinct, both in the camp and in the battle- field. The men belonging to each legion were separated into four di- visions. 1. 1COO of the youngest and poorest were set apart to form the Velitcs, the light-armed troops or skirmishers of the le- gion. 2. 3200 who came next in age (or who were of the same age with the preceding, but more wealthy) formed the Ilastati. 3. 1200, consisting of those in the full vigor of manhood, formed the Principes.. 4. GOO of the oldest and most experienced formed the Triarii. When the number of soldiers in the legion exceeded 4000, the first three divisions were increased proportionally, but the num- ber of the Triarii remained always the same. The Hastati, Prin- cipes, and Triarii were each divided into 10 companies, called Maniples. The Velitcs were net divided into companies, but were distributed equally among the Ilastati, Principcs, and Triarii. Each maniple was subdivided into two centuries, commanded by a centurion. Each legion "had STX superior officers, called Tribuni Militum. The legion was also divided into 10 cohorts ; and as the cohorts were all equal to each other, the strength of the cohort varied from time to time with the strength of the legion, and thus at different periods ranged between the limits of 300 and GOO. Three hundred horse-soldiers were apportioned to each legion, divided into 10 troops (turina''), out of which three officers were chosen named Decurione.s. The infantry furnished by the Socii was for the most part equal m number to the Roman legions, the cavalry twice or thrice as numerous, and the whole were divided equally between the two consular armies. Each Consul named 12 superior officers, w r ho were termed Prccfecti Sociorum, and corresponded to the Legion- ary Tribunes. Fourth Period. From the times of the Gracchi until the doirnfall of the Rcjmblic.* After the times of the Gracchi the following * We anticipate tlic course of events in order to give under one view the bin tory of the Roman legion. 124 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XVII. changes in military affairs may be noticed : In the first consul- ship of Marius the legions were thrown open to citizens of all grades, without distinction of fortune. The whole of the legion- aries were armed and equipped in the same manner, all being now furnished with the pilum. The legionaries, when in battle-order, were no longer arranged in three lines, each consisting of ten maniples with an open space between each maniple, but in two lines, each consisting of live cohorts, with a space between each cohort. The younger soldiers were no longer placed in the front, but in reserve, the van being composed of veterans. As a neces- sary result of the above arrangements, the distinction between Has- tati, Principes, and Triarii ceased to exist. The Velitcs disappear- ed. The skirmishers, included under the general term Levis Ar- matura, consisted for the most part of foreign mercenaries possess- ing peculiar skill in the use of some national weapon, such as the Balearic slingers, the Cretan archers (sayittarii), and the Moorish dartmen. When operations requiring great activity were under- taken, such as could not be performed by mere skirmishers, de- tachments of legionaries were lightly equipped, and marched with- out baggage for these special services.* The cavalry of the legion underwent a change in every respect analogous to that which took place with regard to the light-armed troops. The Roman Equites attached to the army were very few in number, and were chiefly employed as aids-de-camp and on confidential missions. The bulk of the cavalry consisted of foreigners, and hence we find the legions and the cavalry spoken of as completely distinct from each other. After the termination of the Social War, when most of the inhabitants of Italy became Roman citizens, the ancient distinc- tion between the Legiones and the Socii disappeared, and all who had served as Socii became incorporated with the Legiones. In the course of the history the Triumphs granted to victorious generals have been frequently mentioned, and therefore a brief de- sciption of them may appropriately close this sketch of the Roman army. A Triumph was a solemn procession, in which a victorious general entered the city in a chariot drawn by four horses. He was preceded by the captives and spoils taken in war, was followed by his troops, and, after passing in state along the Via Sacra, ascended the Capitol to offer sacrifice in the Temple of Jupiter. Prom the beginning of the Republic down to the extinction of lib- erty a Tiiumph was recognized as the summit of military glory, and was the cherished object of ambition to every Roman general. After any decisive battle had been won, or a province subdued by * Hence the frequent occurrence of such phrases as expediti, expediti xpcd-ii. XVIII. INTERNAL HISTORY OF ROME. 127 that secret societies were formed, which, under the cloak of this worship, indulged in the most abominable vices. A stringent in- quiry was made into these practices ; the most guilty were put to death ; and a decree of the Senate was passed, forbidding the wor- ship of Bacchus in Rome and throughout Italy. Another circumstance will illustrate the manners of the times. L. Flamininus, the brother of the conqueror of Philip, and Consul in B.C. 192, took with him into Cisalpine Gaul a beautiful Cartha- ginian boy, to whom he was attached. The youth complained of leaving Rome just before the exhibition of the games of the gladi- ators. Shortly after reaching the province, when Flamininus was feasting with his favorite, a Boian chief came into the Consul's tent to implore his protection. Flamininus seized this opportunity to please the boy, and, telling him that he should be rewarded for not seeing the gladiators, he ordered an attendant to stab the Gaul, that his favorite might enjoy the dying agonies of the man. The increasing love of gladiatorial combats was another indica- tion of the national character. These brutalizing sports are said to have taken their origin from the Etruscans, who were accustom- ed to kill slaves and captives at the funerals of their relatives. They were first exhibited at Rome in the beginning of the First Punic War (B.C. 2G4). At first confined to funerals, they were aft- erward exhibited by the JEdiles at the public games, with the view of pleasing the people. The passion for this brutalizing amusement rose to a great height toward the end of the Republic and under the Empire. Great pains were taken with the training of gladi- ators, who were divided into different classes according to their arms and modes of fighting. Among many other important consequences of these foreign wars, two exercised an especial influence upon the future fate of the Republic. The nobles became enormously rich, and the peas- nnt proprietors almost entirely disappeared. The wealthy nobles now combined together to keep in their own families the public offices of the state, which afforded the means of making such enor- mous fortunes. Thus a new Nobility was formed, resting on wealth, and composed alike of plebeian and patrician families. Every one whose ancestry had not held any of the curule magistracies* was railed a New Man, and was branded as an upstart.f It became Pee p. 117. t Tli \:. biles were distinguished from the Icmoliles. The outward distinction of the former was the Jus Liiaauiuut. These Imagines were figures with paint- ril m.-i.-ks of wax, representing the ancestors who had held any of the curule mag- istracies. They were placed in cast's in the atrium or reception-hall of the hoa-e, and were earned in the funeral procession of a member of the family. Any one who first obtained a curule magistracy became the founder of the uobil- 128 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XVIII. more and more difficult for a New Man to rise to office, and the Nobles were thus almost an hereditary aristocracy in the exclusive possession of the government. The wealth they had acquired in foreign commands enabled them not only to incur a prodigious ex- pense in the celebration of the public games in their sedileship, with the view of gaining the votes of the people at future elections, but also to spend large sums of money in the actual purchase of votes. The first law against bribery* was passed in B.C. 181, a sure proof of the growth of the practice. The decay of the peasant proprietors was an inevitable conse- quence of these frequent and long-protracted wars. In the earlier times the citizen-soldier, after a few weeks' campaign, returned home to cultivate his land ; but this became impossible when wars were carried on out of Italy. Moreover, the soldier, easily obtain- ing abundance of booty, found life in the camp more pleasant than the cultivation of the ground. He was thus as ready to sell his land as the nobles were anxious to buy it. But money acquired by plunder is soon squandered. The soldier, returning to Rome, swelled the ranks of the poor ; and thus, while the nobles became richer and richer, the lower classes became poorer and poorer. In consequence of the institution of slavery there was little or no de- mand for free labor, and as prisoners taken in war were sold as slaves, the slave-market was always well supplied. The estates of the wealthy were cultivated by large gangs of slaves ; and even the mechanical arts, which give employment to such large numbers in the modern towns of Europe, were practiced by slaves, whom their masters had trained for the purpose. The poor at Rome were thus left almost without resources ; their votes in the popular assembly were nearly the only thing they could turn into money, and it is therefore not surprising that they were ready to sell them to the highest bidder. Many distinguished men saw with deep regret the oil Roman virtues disappearing, and strove vigorously against these corrup- tions of the national character. Of this party the most conspicu- ous member was M. Porcius Cato, who may be taken as a type of the old Roman character. He was born at Tusculum in B.C. 234. When a young man, the death of his father put him in possession of a small hereditary estate in the Sabine territory, at n distance from his native town. It was here that he passed the greater part of his boyhood, hardening his body by healthful exercise, and su- ity of his family. Such a person was himself neither a Xobilis nor an Ignobilis. lie was termed a Xovus Homo, or a new man. * The Latin word for bribery is ambitus, literally canvassing. It must not be confounded with rcpetuntfce, the offense of extortion or pecuniary corruption committed by magistrates io the provinces or at Home. B.C. 2:34-101. M. PORCIUS CATO. 129 perintending and sharing the operations of the farm. Near Ins es- tate was an humble cottage, which had been tenanted, after three triumphs, by its owner M.Curius Dcntatus, whose warlike exploits and simple character were often talked of with admiration in the neighborhood. The ardor of the youthful Cato was kindled. lie resolved to imitate the character, and hoped to rival the glory, of Dcntatus. Opportunity was not wanting. He took his first mili- tary lessons in the campaigns against Hannibal, and gained the fa- vor and friendship of Fabius Maxim us. He was also patronized by L.Valerius Flaccus, a Roman noble in his neighborhood, and ft warm supporter of the old Roman manners, who had observed Cato's eloquence, as well as his martial spirit. Encouraged by Fa- bius and Flaccus. Cato became a candidate for office, and was elect- ed Quaestor in B.C. 204. He followed P. Scipio Africanus to Sici- ly, but there was not that cordiality of co-operation between Cato and Scipio which ought to subsist between a Quaistor and his Pro- consul. Fabius liad opposed the permission given to Scipio to car- ry the attack into the enemy's home, and Cato, whose appointment M-as intended to operate as a check upon Scipio, adopted the vic\vs of his friend. Cato was Praetor in Sardinia in B.C. 198, where he took the earliest opportunity of illustrating his principles by his practice. He diminished official expenses, walked his circuits with a single attendant, administered justice with strict impartiality, and restrained usury with unsparing severity. He had now established a reputation for pure morality and strict old-fashioned virtue. He was looked upon as the living type and representative of the ideal ancient Roman. To the advancement of such a man opposition was vain. In B.C. 11)5 ho was elected Consul Avith his old friend and patron L. Valerius llaccus. During his consulship a strange scene took place peculiarly illustrative of Roman manners. In B.C. 215, at the height of the Punic War, a law had been passed, proposed by the Tribune Oppius, that no woman should possess more than half an ounce of gold, nor wear a garment of divers col- ors, nor drive a carriage with horses within a mile of the city, ex- cept for the purpose of attending the public celebration of religious rites. Now that Hannibal was conquered, and Rome abounded with Carthaginian wealth, there being no longer any necessity for women to contribute toward the exigencies of an impoverished treasury the savings spared from their ornaments and pleasures, two Tribunes thought it time to propose the abolition of theQppian law ; but they were opposed by two of their colleagues. The most important affairs of state excited far less interest and zeal than this singular contest. The matrons blockaded every avenue to the forum, and intercepted their husbands as they approached, beseech- 130 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XVIII. ing them to restore the ancient ornaments of the Roman matrons. Kvc.i Flaccus wavered, but his colleague Cato was inexorable. .Fi- nally, the women carried the day. Worn out by their importunity, the two Tribunes withdrew their opposition, and the hated law was abolished by the suffrage of all the tribes. Cato's campaign in Spain during his Consulship, which added greatly to his military reputation, has been already related. He afterward served in Greece under M. Glabrio, where he distinguish- ed himself at the battle of Thermopylai fought against Antiochus (B.C. 191). The victory of Zama had made P. Scipio Africanus the first man in the Republic, and for a time silenced all his enemies. But the party of Fabius still cherished their old animosity against him, and Cato inherited the hatred of his friend and patron. After the re- turn of P. Scipio and his brother Lucius fn,m the war against An- tiochus, they were charged with having been bribed to let off the Syrian monarch too leniently, and of having appropriated to their own use a portion of the money which had been paid by Antiochus to the Roman state. The first blow was directed against Lucius Scipio. At the instigation of Cato, the two Petillii Tribunes of the people required Lucius to render an account of all sums of money which he had received from Antiochus. Lucius according- ly prepared his accounts; but, as lie was in the act of delivering them up, the proud conqueror of Hannibal indignantly snatched them out of his hands, and tore them in pieces, saying "it was un- worthy to call to account for a few thousands a man who had paid millions into the treasury." But this haughty conduct appears to have produced an unfavorable impression, and his brother, when brought to trial in the course of the same year, was declared guilty, and sentenced to pay a heavy fine. The Tribune ordered him to be dragged to prison, and there detained till the money was paid ; whereupon Africanus, still more enraged at this fresh insult to his family, and setting himself above tl:c laws, rescued his brother from the hands of the Tribune's officer. The contest would proba- bly have been attended with fatal results had not Tib. Gracchus, the father of the celebrated Tribune, and then Tribune himself, had the prudence, although he disapproved of the violent conduct of Africanus, to release his brother Lucius from the sentence of im- prisonment. The successful issue of the prosecution of Lucius emboldened his enemies to bring the great Africanus himself before the people. His accuser was the Tribune M. isrovius. When the trial came on, Scipio did not condescend to say a single word in refutation of the charges that had been brought against him, but descanted long B.C. 183. P. SCIPIO AFRICANUS. 131 and eloquently upon the signal services he had rendered to the commonwealth. Having spoken till nightfall, the trial was ad- journed till the following day. Early next morning, when the Tribunes had taken their seats on the rostra, and African us was summoned, ho proudly reminded the people that this was the an- niversary of the day on which he had defeated Hannibal at Zama, and called upon them to neglect all disputes and lawsuits, and fol> low him to the Capitol, there to return thanks to the immortal gods, and pray that they would grant the Roman state other citi- zens like himself. Scipio struck a chord which vibrated in every heart ; their veneration for the hero returned ; and he was followed hy such crowds to the Capitol that the Tribunes were left alone in the rostra. Having thus set all the laws at defiance, Scipio imme- diately quitted Rome, and retired to his country seat at Liternum, The Tribunes wished to renew the prosecution, but Gracchus wise, ly persuaded them to let it drop. Scipio never returned to Rome. He -would neither submit to the laws, nor aspire to the sovereignty of the state, and he therefore ^ resolved to expatriate himself for* ever. He passed his remaining days in the cultivation of his es- tate at Liternum, and at his death is said to have requested that his body might be buried there, and not in his ungrateful country (B.C. 183). Hannibal perished in the same year as his great opponent. Scipio was the only member of the Senate who opposed the un- worthy persecution which the Romans employed against their once dreaded foe. Each of these great men, possessing true nobility of soul, could appreciate the other's merits. A story is told that Scipio was one of the embassadors sent to Antioclms at Ephesus, at whose court Hannibal was then residing, and that he there had an interview with the great Carthaginian, who declared him the greatest general that ever lived. The compliment was paid in a manner the most flattering to Scipio. The latter had asked, " Who was the greatest general?" " Alexander the Great," was Hanni- bal's reply. "Who was the second?" "Pyrrhus." "Who was the third ?" "Myself," replied the Carthaginian. "What would you have said, then, if you had conquered me?" asked Scipio, in astonishment. " I should then have placed myself above Alexan- der, Pyrrhus, and all other generals." After the defeat of Antiochus, Hannibal, as we have already seen, took up his abode with Prusias, king of Bithynia, and there found for some years a secure asylum. But the Romans could not be at ease so long as Hannibal lived, and T. Flamininus was at length dispatched to the court of Prusias to demand the surren- der of the fugitive. The Bithynian king was unable to resist ; but 182 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XVIII. Hannibal, who had long been in expectation of such an event, took poison to avoid falling into the hands of his implacable foes. AVe now return to Cato, whose Censorship (B.C. 184) was a great epoch in his life. He applied himself strenuously to the duties of his office, regardless of the enemies he was making. He repaired the water-courses, paved the reservoirs, cleansed the drains, raised ihe rents paid by the publican i for farming the taxes, and dimin- ished the contract-prices disbursed by the state to the undertakers Df public works. There can be no doubt that great abuses existed in the management of the public finances, with which .nothing but the undaunted courage and administrative abilities of Cato could have successfully grappled. He was disturbing a nest of hornets, ::nd all his future life was troubled by their bu/z, and their at- tempts to sting. But, though he was accused no fewer than forty- four times during the course of his life, it was only once that his enemies prevailed against him. His enactments agaist luxury were severe and stringent, He levied a heavy tax upon expensive slaves and costly furniture and dress. He justly degraded from ihe Senate L. Flamininus for the act of abominable crueltv in Gaul which has been already narrated.* The strong national prejudices of Cato appear to have diminish- ed in force as he grew older and w iscr. He applied himself in old age to the study of Greek literature, with which in youth he had no acquaintance, although he was not ignorant of the Greek lan- guage. Himself an historian and orator, the excellences of De- mosthenes and Thucydides made a deep impression upon his kin- dred mind. But throughout life his conduct was guided by preju- dices against classes and nations whose influence lie deemed to be hostile to the simplicity of the old Koman character. When Ku- inencs, king of Pergamus, visited Rome after the war with Antio- chus, and was received with honor by the Senate, and splendidly entertained by the nobles, Cato was indignant at the respect paid to the monarch, refused to go near him, and declared that "kings were naturally carnivorous animals." He had an antipathy to physicians, because they were mostly Greeks, and therefore unfit to be trusted with Koman lives. lie loudly cautioned his eldest son against them, and dispensed with their attendance. When Athens sent three celebrated philosophers, Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus, to Rome, in order to negotiate a remission of the 500 talents which the Athenians had been awarded to pay to the Oro- pians, Carneades excited great attention by his philosophical con- versation and lectures, in which he preached the pernicious doctrine of an expediency distinct from justice, which he illustrated by tho * See p. 12T. B.C. 184. M. PORCIUS CATO. 133 example of Rome herself: "If Rome were stripped of all that she did not justly gain, the Romans might go back to their huts." Cato, offended with his principles, and jealous of the attention paid to the Greek, gave advice which the Senate followed : "Let these depu- ties have an answer, and a polite dismissal as soon as possible." Cato was an unfeeling and cruel master. His conduct toward his slaves was detestable. The law held them to be mere chattels, and he treated them as such, without any regard to the rights of humanity. After supper he often severely chastised them, thong in hand, for trifling acts of negligence, and sometimes condemned them to death. When they were worn out, or useless, he sold them, or turned them out of doors. He treated the lower animals no better. His war-horse, which bore him through his- campaign in Spain, he sold before he left the country, that the state might not be charged with the expenses of its transport. As years ad- vanced he sought gain with increasing eagerness, but never at- tempted to profit by the misuse of his public functions. He ac- cepted no bribes ; he reserved no booty to his own use ; but he became a speculator, not only in slaves, but in buildings, artificial waters, and pleasure-grounds. In this, as in other points, he was a representative of the old Romans, who were a money-getting and money-loving people. Island in the Tiber, with the Fabrician and Cestian Bridges. CHAPTEK XIX. THE THIRD MACEDONIAN, ACHJEAN, AND THIRD PUNIC WARS. B.C. 179-146. IN B.C. 179 Philip died, and was succeeded by his son Perseus, the last monarch of Macedonia. The latter years of the reign of Philip had been spent in preparations for a renewal of the war, which he foresaw to be inevitable ; and when Perseus ascended the throne, he found himself amply provided with men and money for the impending contest. But, whether from a sincere desire of peace, or from irresolution of character, he sought to avert an open rupture as long as possible, and one of the first acts of his reign was to obtain from the Romans a renewal of the treaty which they had concluded with his father. It is probable that neither party was sincere in the conclusion of this peace, at least neither could entertain any hope of its duration ; yet a period of seven years elapsed before the mutual enmity of the two powers broke out into open hostilities. Meanwhile, Perseus was not idle ; he secured the attachment of his subjects by equitable and popular measures, and formed alliances not only with the Greeks and the Asiatic princes, but also with the Thracian, Illyrian, and Celtic tribes which sur- UC.171-1G7. MACEDONIAN WAR. 135 rounded his dominions. The Romans naturally viewed these pro- ceedings with jealousy and suspicion; and at length, in 172, Per- seus was formally accused before the Roman Senate by Eumenes, king of Pergamus, in person, of entertaining hostile designs against the Roman power. The murder of Eumenes near Delphi, on his return homeward, of which Perseus was suspected, aggravated the feeling against him at Rome, and in the following year war was declared. Perseus was at the head of a numerous and well-appointed army, hut of all his allies, only Cotys, king of the Odrysians, ventured to support him against so formidable a foe. Yet the war was pro- tracted three years without any decisive result ; nay, the balance of success seemed on the whole to incline in favor of Perseus, and many states, which before were wavering, now showed a disposition to join his cause. But his ill-timed parsimony restrained him from taking advantage of their offers, and in u.c. 1G8 the arrival of the Consul L. JEmilius Paullus completely changed the aspect of af- fairs. Perseus was driven from a strong position which he had taken up on the banks of the Euipeus, forced to retreat to Pydna, and, finally, to accept an engagement near that town. At first the serried ranks of the phalanx seemed to promise superiority ; but its order having been broken by the inequalities of the ground, the Roman legionaries penetrated the disordered mass, and com- mitted fearful carnage, to the extent, it is said, of 20,000 men. Perseus fled first to Pella, then to Amphipolis, and finally to the sanctuary of the sacred island of Samothrace, but was at length obliged to surrender himself to a Roman squadron. He was treat- ed with courtesy, but was reserved to adorn the triumph of his con- queror. Such was the end of the Macedonian empire. The Sen- ate decreed that Macedonia should be divided into four districts, each under the jurisdiction of an oligarchical council. Before leaving Greece, Paullus was commanded by the Senate to inllict a terrible punishment upon the Epirotes, because they had favored Perseus. Having placed garrisons in the seventy towns of Epirus, he razed them all to the ground in one day, and curried away 150,000 inhabitants as slaves. Epirus never recovered from this blow. In the time of Augustus the country was still a scene of desolation, and the inhabitants had only ruins and villages to dwell in. Paullus arrived in Italy toward the close of B.C. 1G7. The booty which he brought with him from Macedonia, and which he paid into the Roman treasury, was of enormous value ; and his triumph, which lasted three days, was the most splendid that Rome had yet seen. Before his triumphal car walked the captive monarch of 136 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XIX Macedonia, and behind it, on horseback, were his two eldest sons, Q. Fabius Maximus, and P. Seipio Africanus the younger, both of whom hud been adopted into other families. But his glory was darkened by the death of his two younger sons, one dying a few days before, and the other a few days after his triumph. After the triumph Perseus was thrown into a dungeon, but, in consequence of the intercession of Paullas, he was released, and permitted to end his days in an honorable captivity at Peila. Hi eon Alexander learned the Latin language, and became a public clerk at Rome. The fall of the Macedonian monarchy made Rome the real mis- tress of the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. The most haughty monarchs trembled before the Republic. Antiochns Epiph- anes had invaded Egypt, and was marching upon Alexandria, when he was met by three Roman commissioners, who presented him with a decree of the Senate, commanding him to abstain from hos- tilities against Egypt. The king, having read the decree, prom- ised to take it into consideration with his friends, whereupon Po- pillius, one of the Roman commissioners, stepping forward, drew n circle round the king with his staff, and told him that he should not stir out of it till he had given a decisive answer. The king was so frightened by this boldness that he immediately promised to withdraw his troops. Eumenes, king of Pergamus, whose con- duct during the war with Perseus had excited the suspicion of the Senate, hastened to make his submission in person, but was not al- lowed to enter Rome. Prusias, king of Bithynia, had the mean- ness to appear at Rome with his head shaven, and in the dress of a liberated slave. The Ilhodians, who had offered their mediation during the Avar with Perseus, were deprived of Lycia and Caria. In Greece itself the Senate acted in the same arbitrary manner. It was evident that they meant to bring the whole country under their sway. In these views they were assisted by various despots and traitors in the Grecian cities, and especially by Callicrates, a man of great influence among the Acha?ans, who for many years had lent himself as the base tool of the Romans. He now de- nounced more than a thousand Achrcans as having favored the cause of Perseus. Among them were the historian Polybius, and the most distinguished men in every city of the League. They were all apprehended and sent to Italy, where they were distrib- uted among the cities of Etruria, without being brought to trial. Polybius alone was allowed to reside at Rome in the house of JEmil- ius Paullus, where he became the intimate friend of his son Seipio Africanus the younger. The Achaean League continued to exist, but it was really subject to Callicrates. The Achaean exiles Ian- B.C. H7-HG. ACHAEAN WAR. 137 guished in confinement for seventeen years. Their i-cquest to be allowed to return to their native land had been more than once refused ; but the younger Scipio Africanus at length interceded on their behalf, and prevailed upon Cato to advocate their return. The conduct of the aged Senator was kinder than his words. He did not interpose till the end of a long debate, and then simply asked, "Have we nothing better to do than to sit here all day long debating whether a parcel of worn-out Greeks shall be carried to their graves here or in Achaia?" A decree of the Senate gave the exiles permission to return ; but, when Polvbius was anxious to ob- tain from the Senate restoration to their former honors, Cato bade him, with a smile, beware of returning to the Cyclops' den to fetch away any trifles he had left behind him. The Achaean exiles, whose numbers were now reduced from 1000 to 300, landed in Greece (H.C. 151) with feelings exasperated by their long confinement, and ready to indulge in any rash enter- prise against Rome. Polybius, who had returned with the other exiles, in vain exhorted them to peace and unanimity, and to avoid a hopeless struggle with the Roman power. Shortly afterward an adventurer laid claim to the throne of Macedonia (B.C. H9). He was a man of low origin called Andriscus, but he pretended to be the son of Perseus, and assumed the name of Philippus. At first he met with some success, and defeated the Roman Praetor Juventius, but, after reigning scarcely a year, he was conquered and taken prisoner by Q. Metellus. The temporary success of Andriscus had encouraged the war- party in the Achajan League. Polybius had quitted the country to join his friend Scipio in Africa; and Bia3us and Critolaus, the most violent enemies of Rome, had now undisputed sway in the League. Diaius incited the Achaians to attack Sparta, on the ground that, instead of appealing to the League respecting a boundary question, as they ought to have done, they had violated its laws by sending a private embassy to Rome. The Spartans, feeling themselves incompetent to resist this attack, appealed to the Romans for assistance ; and in B.C. 147 two Roman commis- sioners were sent to Greece to settle these disputes. The com- missioners decided that not only Sparta, but Corinth, and all the other cities, except those of Achaia, should be restored to inde- pendence. Their decision occasioned serious riots at Corinth. All the Spartans in the town were seized, and even the Roman commissioners narrowly escaped violence. On their return to Rome a fresh embassy was dispatched to demand satisfaction for these outrages. But the violent and impolitic conduct of Crito- laus, then Strategus of the League, rendered all attempts at accom- 138 HISTORY OF HOME. modatiou fruitless, and, after the return of the embassadors. the Senate declared war against the League. The cowardice and in- competence of Critolaiis as a general were only equaled by his previous insolence. On the approach of the Romans from Mace- donia under Metellus he did not even venture to make a stand at Thermopylae ; and, being overtaken by them near Scarphea, in Lev Cris, he was totally defeated, and never again heard of. Diaeus, y/ho succeeded him as Strategus, displayed rather more energy and courage, and made preparations to defend Corinth. Metellus had hoped to have had the honor of bringing the war to a conclusion, and had almost reached Corinth, when the Consul L. Mummiua landed on the Isthmus and assumed the command. The struggle was soon brought to a close. Diaiiis was defeated in battle ; and Corinth was immediately evacuated, not only by the troops of the League, but also by the greater part of the inhabitants. On enter- ing the city, Mummius put to the sword the few males who remain- ed, eold the women and children as slaves, and, having carried away all its treasures, consigned it to the flames (B.C. 14G). Cor- inth was filled with masterpieces of ancient art ; but Mummius was so insensible to their surpassing excellence as to stipulate with those who contracted to convey them to Italy that, if any were lost in the passage, they should be replaced by others of equal value ! Mummius then employed himself in chastising and regulating the whole of Greece ; and ten commissioners were sent from Rome to settle its future condition. The whole country, to the borders of Macedonia and Epirus, was formed into a Roman province, under the name of Achaia, derived from that confederacv which had made the last struggle for political existence. The Roman commission, ers then proceeded northward, and also formed Macedonia into a province. Polybius, who had hastened to Greece immediately after the capture cf Corinth, exerted all his influence to alleviate the misfortunes of his countrymen, and to procure for them favorable terms. As a friend of Sc-ipio he was received by the Roman com- missioners with great distinction, and obtained from them a relax- ation of some of the most severe enactments which had been made Jgainst the Achseans. Metellus and Mummius both triumphed on their return to Rome, Jhc former taking the surname of Macedonians, the latter that of Achaicus. Carthage, so long the rival of Rome, had fallen in the same year as Corinth. The reforms introduced by Hannibal after the battle of Zama had restored some degree of prosperity to the state ; arid, though the Roman party obtained the supremacy after he had been compelled to fly to Antiochus, the commercial activity of the CVr* 1J.C. 150. THIRD PUNIC WAR. 139 thatnnians restored to the city much of its former influence. Roino looked with a jealous eye upon its reviving power, and encouraged Masinissa to make repeated aggressions upon its territory. At length the popular party, having obtained more weight in the gov- ernment, made a stand against these repeated encroachments of Masinissa. Thereupon Cato recommended an instant declaration of war against Carthage ; but this met with considerable opposition in the Senate, and it was at length arranged that an embassy should be sent to Africa to gain information as to the real state of affairs. The ten ambassadors, of whom Cato was the chief, offered their arbitration, which was accepted by Masinissa, but rejected by the Carthaginians, who had no confidence in Roman justice. The deputies accurately observed the warlike preparations and the de- fenses of the frontier. They then entered the city, and saw the strength and population it had acquired since the Second Punic War. Upon their return Cato was the foremost in asserting that Home would never be safe as long as Carthage was so powerful, so hostile, and so near. One day he drew a bunch of early ripe figs from beneath his robe, and, throwing it upon the floor of the Sen- ate-house, said to the assembled fathers, who were astonished at the freshness and fineness of the fruit, "Those figs were gathered but three days ago at Cartilage ; so close is our enemy to our walls." From that time forth, whenever he was called upon for his vote in the Senate, though the subject of debate bore no rela- tion to Carthage, his words were, "Delenda cst Carthago,"" Car- thage must be destroyed."* Cato's opinion prevailed, and the Senate only waited for a favor- able opportunity to destroy the city. This soon occurred. The popular party having driven into exile the powerful partisans of Masinissa, the old Numidian king invaded the Carthaginian terri* tory, and defeated the army which had been raised to oppose him (u.c. 150). This led to a change in the government, and the aris- tocratical party, once more restored to power, hastened to make their submission to Rome. But the Romans had resolved upon war, and, when the Carthaginian embassadors arrived at Rome, the two Consuls were already levying troops. The embassadors, knowing that resistance was hopeless, sought to appease the anger of the Senate by unconditional obedience. They were ordered to send 300 youths of the noblest families to meet the Consuls at Lilybajum, and were told that the Consuls would acquaint them with the farther orders of the Senate. At Lilybauim the Consuls * Thid story must uppctir strange to th.^e M-ho know not that it was a cu.m for Roman Senators, when called upon for their vote, to cxpres.- no matter what the question any opinion which they deemed of great importance to the welfare of tko ttate. 140 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XIX. found the hostages awaiting them, and then promised the Car- thaginian envoys that the decision of the Senate should be an- nounced to them in Africa. Upon reaching Utica, which surren- dered to them in despair, the Consuls informed the Carthaginians that, as their state would henceforth be under the protection of Rome, they had no longer any occasion for arms, and must sur- render all the munitions of war. Even this demand was complied with, and the Roman commissioners who were sent to Carthage brought to the Roman camp 200,000 stand of arms, and 2000 cata- pults. The Consuls, thinking that the state was now defenseless, threw off the mask, and announced the final resolution of the Sen- ate : "That Carthage must be destroyed, and that its inhabitants must build another city ten miles distant from the coast." When this terrible news reached Carthage, despair and rage seized all the citizens. They resolved to perish rather than submit to so per- fidious a foe. All the Italians within the walls were massacred ; the members of the former government took to flight, and the pop- ular party once more obtained the power. Almost superhuman ef- forts were made to obtain means of defense ; corn was collected from every quarter ; arms were manufactured day and night ; the women cut off their long hair to be made into strings for the cata- pults, and the whole city became one vast work-shop. The Con- suls now saw that it would be necessary to have recourse to force ; but they had no military ability, and their attacks were repulsed with great loss. The younger Scipio Africanus, who was then serving in the army as military tribune, displayed great "bravery and military skill, and, on one occasion, saved the army from de- struction. Still no permanent success was gained, and Scipio re- turned to Rome, accompanied by the prayers of the soldiers that he would come back as their commander. In the following year (B.C. 148) the new Consul L. Calpurnius Piso was even less suc- cessful than his predecessors. The soldiers became discontented-, the Roman Senate and people, who had anticipated an easy con- quest, were indignant at their disappointment, and all eyes were turned to Scipio. Accordingly, when he became a candidate for the sedileship for the ensuing year (B.C. 147), he was unanimously elected Consul, though he was only thirty-seven years old, and had not, therefore, attained the legal age for the office. This remarkable man was, as we have already said, the son of L. JEmilius Paullus, the conqueror of Macedonia. He was adopt- ed by P. Scipio, the son of the great Africanus, and is therefore called Scipio Africanus Minor, to distinguish him from his grand- father by adoption. To these names that of .ZEmilianus is some- times added to mark the family of his birth, so that his full desig- B.C. H7, DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE. HI nation was P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus JEmilianus. His intima- cy Avitli tlie historian Polybius has been already mentioned. He appears from his earliest years to have devoted himself with ardor to the study of literature ; and he eagerly availed himself of the superior knowledge of Polybius to direct him in his literary pur- suits. He was accompanied by the Greek historian in almost all his campaigns, and, in the midst of his most active military duties, lost no opportunity of enlarging his knowledge of Greek literature and philosophy by constant intercourse with his friend. Nor did he neglect the literature of his own country, for Terence was ad- mitted to his intimacy, and he is even said to have assisted him in the composition of his comedies. His friendship with Laelius, whose tastes and pursuits were so congenial to his own, has been immortalized by Cicero's celebrated treatise "On Friendship." Scipio landed in Africa in B.C. 147. His first step was to restore A. Inner Port. B Outer Port. Plan of Carthage. C. Outlet to Sea. I D. Scipio's Mole. E. New Outlet to Sea, cut by the Carthaginians. 142 HISTORY OF ROME. CIIAI-. XIX discipline to the army. He next took by storm Megara, a suburb of Carthage, and then proceeded to construct a work across the entrance of the harbor to cut off the city from all supplies by sea. But the Carthaginians defended themselves with a courage and an energy rarely paralleled in history. While Scipio was engaged in this laborious task, they built a fleet of fifty ships in their inner port, and cut a new channel communicating with the sea. Hence, when Scipio at length succeeded in blocking up the entrance of the harbor, he found all his labor useless, as the Carthaginians sailed out to sea by the new outlet. But this fleet Was destroyed after an obstinate engagement which lasted three days. At length, in the following year (B.C. 146), Scipio had made all his preparations for the final assault. The Carthaginians defended themselves with the courage of despair. They fought from street to street, and from house to house, and the work of destruction and butchery went on for six days. The fate of this once magnificent city moved Scipio to tears ; and, anticipating that a similar catastrophe might one day befall Rome, he is said to have repeated the lines of the Iliad over the flames of Carthage: "The day shall come when sacred Troy shall perish, and Priam and his people shall be slain." Scipio returned to Rome in the same year, and celebrated a splendid triumph on account of his victory. The surname of Af- ricanus, which he had inherited by adoption, had now been ac- quired by his own exploits. A portion of the dominions of Carthage was assigned to Utica. The remainder was formed into a Roman province under the name of Africa. Carthage itself was leveled to the ground, and a curse pronounced upon any who should rebuild the city. C. Gracchus, however, only twenty-four years afterward, attempted to found a new city upon the ancient site under the name of Junonia ; but evil prodigies at its foundation, and the subsequent death of Grac- chus, interrupted this design. The project was revived by Julius Ca'sar, and was carried into effect by Augustus ; /ind Roman Car- thage, built at a short distance from the former city, became the capital of Africa, and one of the most flourishing cities in the an- cient world. In the fifth century it was taken by Genscric, and made the capital of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. It was re- taken by Belisarius, but was finally captured and destroyed by the Arabs in A.D. 647. Its site is now desolate, marked only by a few ruins. Personification of the River Tiber. CHAPTER XX. SPANISH WARS, B.C. 153-133. FIRST SKUVILE AVAR, B.C. 134-132. THE generous policy of Tib. Sempronius Gracchus in B.C. 179* had secured for Spain a long period of tranquillity. But in B.C. 153, the inhabitants of Segeda having commenced rebuilding the walls of their town, which was forbidden by one of the articles in the treaty of Gracchus, a new war broke out, which lasted for many years. The Celtiberians in general espoused the cause of Segeda, and the Consul Q. Fabius Nobilior made fin unsuccessful campaign against them. His successor, the Consul M. Claudius Marcellus, grandson of the Marcellus who was celebrated in the Second Punic War, carried on the Avar with vigor, and concluded a peace with the enemy on very fair terms (n.c. 152). The Consul of the following year, L. Lucinius Lucullus, finding the Celtiberians at peace, turned his arms against the Vaccrci, Cantabri, and other nations as yet un- known to the Romans. At the same time the Prsetor Ser. Sulpic- ius Galba invaded Lusitania, but, though he met with some advan- tage at first, he was subsequently defeated with great loss, and es- caped with only a few horsemen. In the following year (B.C. 150) he again invaded the country from the south, while Lucullus attack- ed it from the north. The Lusitanians therefore sent cmbassadors * Seep. 115. 144 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XX. to Galba to make their submission. He received them with kind- ness, lamented the poverty of their country, and promised to assign them more fertile lands, if they would meet him in three bodies, with their wives and children, in three places which he fixed upon. The simple people believed him. But he meditated one of the most atrocious acts of treachery and cruelty recorded in history. He fell upon each body separately, and butchered them, men, wom- en, and children, without distinction. Among the very few who escaped was Viriathus, the future avenger of his nation. Galba was brought to trial on his return to Home on account of this out- rage ; and Cato, then in the 85th year of his age, inveighed against his treachery and baseness. But Galba was eloquent and wealthy, and the liberal employment of his money, together with the com- passion excited by his weeping children and ward, obtained his ac- quittal. Viriathus appears to have been one of those able guerrilla chiefs whom Spain has produced at every period of her history. lie is said to have been first a shepherd and afterward a robber, but he soon acquired unbounded influence over the minds of his country- men. After the massacre of Galba, those Lusitanians who had not left their homes rose as a man against the rule of such treacherous tyrants. Viriathus at first avoided all battles in the plains, and waged an incessant predatory warfare in the mountains ; and he met with such continued good fortune, that numbers flocked to his standard. The aspect of affairs seemed at length so threatening that in B.C. 145 the Romans determined to send the Consul Q. Fa- bius Maximus into the country. In the following year Fabius de- feated Viriathus with great loss ; but this success was more than counterbalanced by the revolt of the Celtiberians, the bravest and most noble-minded of the Spaniards. The war is usually known by the name of the Numantinc, from Numantia, a town on the River Douro, and the capital of the Arevaci, the most powerful of the Cel- tiberian tribes. Henceforward two Roman armies were employed in Spain, one in the north against the Celtiberians, and the other in the south against Viriathus and the Lusitanians. The war against the Lusi- tanians was at first brought to a conclusion. In B.C. 141 Viriathus surprised the Proconsul Fabius Servilianns in a narrow pass, where escape was impossible. He used his victory with moderation, and suffered the Romans to depart uninjured, on condition of their al- lowing the Lusitanians to retain undisturbed possession of their own territory, and recognizing him as a friend and ally of Rome. This treaty was ratified by the Roman people; but the Consul Q. Servilius Crcpio, who succeeded Fabius in the command in south- B.C. 152-133. WARS IN SPAIN. 145 ern Spain, found some pretext fur violating the peace, and renewed the war against Viriathus. The latter sent envoys to Caspio to prcc- pose fresh terms of peace ; but the Roman Consul persuaded them, by promises of large rewards, to murder their general. On their return they assassinated him in his own tent, and made their es- cape to the Roman camp before the Lusitanians were aware of the death of their chief. But, when the murderers claimed their re- ward, the Consul coolly told them that the Romans did not approve of the murder of a general by his own soldiers. The Lusitanians continued in arms a little longer, but the war virtually terminated by the death of Viriathus. Their country was finally reduced to subjection by the Consul D. Junius Brutus in B,C, 138, who also crossed the rivers Douro and Minho, and received the surname of Callaicus in consequence of his receiving the submission of theCal- lai'ci, or Gallaeci, a people in the northwest of Spain. The war against the Celtiberians was at first conducted with success by the Consul Q. Metellus Macedonicus, who during his Praetorship had defeated the pretender to the Macedonian throne. But the successors of Metellus experienced repeated disasters, and at length, in B.C. 137, the Consul C. Hostilius Mancinus, being en- tirely surrounded by the Celtiberians, was obliged to sign a peace with them, in which he recognized their independence. He only obtained these terms on condition that his Quastor, Tib. Sempro- nius Gracchus, who was greatly respected by the Spaniards for his father's sake, should become responsible for the execution of the treaty. The Senate refused to ratify it, and went through the hyp- ocritical ceremony of delivering over Mancinus, bound and naked, to the enemy. But the Numantines, like the Samnites in a simi- lar case, declined to accept the offering. The Numantine war continued in the same disastrous manner to the Roman arms, and the people now called upon Scipio Africanus to bring it to a conclusion. We have already traced the career of this eminent man till the fall of Carthage. In B.C. 142 he was Censor with L. Mummius. In the administration of the duties of his office he followed in the footsteps of Cato, and attempted to repress the growing luxury and immorality of his contemporaries ; but his efforts were thwarted by his colleague. He vainly wished to check in the people the appetite for foreign conquests ; and in the solemn prayer which he offered at the conclusion of the lus- trum he changed the usual supplication for the enlargement of the Republic into one for its preservation. He was now elected Con- sul a second time, and was sent into Spain in B.C. 134. His first efforts were directed, as in Africa, to the restoration of discipline in the army, which had become disorganized and demoralized by K 146 HISTORY OF ROME- CHAP. XX. every kind of indulgence. Two remarkable men served nrtdcT Scipio in this war. Matins, afterward seven times Consul, and the Numidian prince Jugurtha. Having brought his troops into an effective condition, Scipio, in the following year, proceeded to lay siege to Numantia. The town was defended by its inhabitants with the courage and perseverance which has pre-eminently distinguish- ed the Spaniards in all ages in the defense of their walled towns. It was not till they had suffered the most dreadful extremities of famine, eating even the bodies of the dead, that they surrendered the place (u.c. 133). Fifty of the principal inhabitants were se- lected to adorn Scipio's triumph ; the rest were sold as slaves, and the town was leveled to the ground. He now received the sur- name of Nmnantinns, in addition to that of Africanus. During the Numantine war Rome was menaced by a new dan- ger, which revealed one of the plague-spots in the Republic. AVe have already had occasion to describe the decay of the free popu- lation in Italy, and the great increase in the number of slaves from the foreign conquests of the state.* As slaves were cheap, in consequence of the abundant supply, the masters did not care for their lives, and treated them with great barbarity. A great part of the land in Italy was turned into sheep-walks. The slaves were made responsible for the sheep committed to their care, and were left to supply themselves with food as they best could. It was an aggravation of their wretched lot, that almost all these slaves had once been freemen, and were not distinguished from their masters by any outward sign, like the negroes in the United States. In Sicily the free population had diminished even more than in Italy ; and it was in this island that the first Servile War broke out. Da- mophilus, a wealthy landowner of Enna, had treated his slaves with excessive barbarity. They entered into a conspiracy against their cruel master, and consulted a Syrian slave of the name of Ennns, who belonged to another master. This Eunus pretended to the gift of prophecy, and appeared to breathe flames of fire from his mouth. He not only promised them success, but joined in the en- terprise himself. Having assembled to the number of about 400 men, they suddenly attacked Enna, and, being joined by their fel- low-citizens \\ithin the town, quickly made themselves masters of it. Great excesses were committed, and almost all the freemen were put to death with horrid tortures. Eunus had, while yet a slave, prophesied that he should become king. He now assumed the royal diadem, and the title of King Antiochus. Sicily was at this time swarming with slaves, a great proportion of them Syrians, who flocked to the standard of their countryman and fellow-bonds- * See p. 128. B.C. 134 132. FIRST SERVILE WAR. 147 man. The revolt now became general, and the iei.xnd was deliv- ered over to the murderous fury of men maddened by oppression, cruelty, and insult. The Praetors, who first led armies against them, were totally defeated ; and in u.c. 134 it was thought neces- sary to send the Consul C. Eulvius Flaccus to subdue the insurrec- tion. But neither he, nor the Consul of the following year, suc- ceeded in this object; and it was not till u.c. 132 that the Consul P. Rupilius brought the war to an end by the capture of Taurome- .nium and Enna, the two strong-holds of the insurgents. The life of Eunus was spared, probably with the intention of carrying him to Rome, but he died in prison at Morgantia. About the same time died Attains Philometor, the last king of Pergamus, leaving no children (n.c. 133). He beqeuathed his kingdom and treasures to the Roman people ; but Aristonicus, a natural son of Eumenes, the father of Attains, laid claim to the crown. He even defeated the Consul P. Licinius Crassus. v.ho fell in the engagement (B.C. 131), but lie was himself defeated and taken prisoner in the following year. The kingdom of Pergamus was formed into a Roman province under the name of Asia (u.c. 129). The foreign dominions of Rome now comprised the ten follow- ing provinces, to which is added the date of the formation of each: 1. Sicily, u.c. 241 . 2. Sardinia and Corsica, u.c. 238. 3, 4. The two Spains, Citerior and Ulterior, u.c. 20"). 5. Gallia Cisalpina, u.c. 101. 0. Macedonia, i?.c. 146. 7. Illyricum, probably form- ed at the same time as Macedonia. 8. Acliaia, that, is, Southern Greece, virtually a province after the capture of Corinth, n.c. 146, though the exact date of its formation is unknown. 0. Africa, con- sisting of the dominions of Carthage, u.c. 146. 10. Asia, includ- ing the kingdom of Pergamus, u.c. 129, To these an eleventh was added in n.c. 118 by the conquest of the southern portion of Trans- alpine Gaul between the Alps and the Pyrenees. In contrast with the other portions of Gaul, it was frequently called simply the "Provincia," u name which has been retained in the modern Provence. Stairs of the moder CHAPTER XXL TIIIC GRACCHI. 15. C. 133-121. THE more thoughtful Romans had foreseen the dangers with which Rome was menaced by the impoverishment of her free pop- ulation, and the alarming increase in the number of slaves. It is said that Lrclins, the friend of the elder Scipio Africanus. had at the close of the Second Punic War meditated some reforms to ar- rest the growing evil, but had given them up as impracticable. The Servile War in Sicily had lately revealed the extent of the peril to which the Republic was exposed. It must have been felt by many that the evil would never have reached its present height if the Li- linian Law had been observed, if men had been appointed to watch over its execution, and if the newly-acquired public lands had from time to time been distributed among the people. But the nobles, from long possession, had come to regard the public land as their own ; many had acquired their portions by purchase, inheritance, B.C. 133. THE GRACCHI. 149 or marriage ; and every one shrank from interfering with interests supported by long prescription and usage. Still, unless something was done, matters would become worse ; the poor would become poorer, and the slaves more numerous, and the state Avould de- scend more rapidly into the yawning abyss beneath it. Under these circumstances, two young men, belonging to one of the no- blest families in Home, came forward to save the Republic, but perished in the attempt. Their violent death may be regarded as the beginning of the Civil Wars, which ended in the destruction of freedom, and the establishment of the despotism of the Empire. Tiberius and Caius Gracchus were the sons of Tib. Sempronius Gracchus, whose prudent measures gave tranquillity to Spain for so many years.* They lost their father at an early age, but they were educated with the utmost care by their mother, Cornelia, the daughter of Scipio Africanus the elder, who had inherited from her father a love of literature, and united in her person the severe vir- tue of the ancient Roman matron with the superior knowledge and refinement which then prevailed in the higher classes at Rome. She engaged for her sons the most eminent Greek teachers ; and it was mainly owing to the pains she took with their education that they surpassed all the Roman youths of their age. Tiberius \vas nine years older than his brother Caius. The latter had more abil- ity, but Tiberius was the more amiable, and won all hearts by tho simplicity of his demeanor and his graceful and persuasive elo- quence. So highly was Tiberius esteemed, that as soon as he reach- ed the age of manhood he was elected Augur, and at the banquet given at his installation Appius Claudius, then Chjef of the Senate, offered him his daughter in marriage. When Appius returned home and informed his wife that he had just betrothed their daugh- ter, she exclaimed, "Why in such a hurry, unless you have got Tib. Gracchus for her husband?" Sempronia, the only sister of Tibe- rius, was married to the younger Scipio Africanus. Tiberius was thus, by birth and marriage, connected with the noblest families in the Republic the grandson of the conqueror of Hannibal the son- in-law of the Chief of the Senate and the brother-in-law of the de- stroyer of Carthage. Tiberius served under his brother-in-law in Africa, and was Jhe first who scaled the walls of Carthage. He was Qusestor in B.C. i:)7, and accompanied the Consul C. Hostilius to Spain, where he saved the army by obtaining a treaty with the Nnmantincs, which the Senate refused to ratify. t In passing through Etruria, on his way to Spain, Tiberius had observed with grief and indignation the deserted state of that fertile country. Thousands of foreign slaves * See p. 115. t See p. 146. 150 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXI, were tending the flocks and cultivating the soil of the wealthy land- owners, while Roman citizens, thus thrown out of employment, could scarcely procure their daily bread, and had not a clod of earth to call their own. He now conceived the design of applying a remedy to this state of tilings, and Avith this view became a candidate for the Tribunate, and was elected for the year u.c. 133. Tiberius, however, did not act with precipitation. The measure which he brought forward had previously received the approbation of some of the wisest and noblest men in the state; of his own fa- ther-in-law Appius Claudius ; of P. Mucius Scsevola, the great jurist, who was then Consul ; and of Crassus, the Pontifex Maximus. ]t was proposed to re-enact the Licinian Law of u.c. 3G4 which had, in fact, never been repealed but with some modifications and ad- ditions. As in the Licinian Law, no one was to be allowed to pos- sess more than 500 jugcra of public land ; but, to relax the strin- gency of this rule, every possessor might hold in addition 250 jugera for each of his sons. All the rest of the public land was to be taken away from them and distributed among the poor citizens, who were not to be permitted to alienate these lots, in order that they might not be again absorbed into the estate of the wealthy. An indem- nity was to be given from the public treasury for all buildings erect- ed upon lands thus taken away. Three commissioners (Triumviri) were to be elected by the tribes in order to cany this law into exe- cution. The Law affected only Public Lands, but it was no less a revolu- tionary measure. It is true that no prescription can, as a general rule, be pleaded against the rights of the state, but the possessors of the public lands had enjoyed them without question for so long a. period that they had come to regard these lands as their private property. In many cases, as we have already said, they had been acquired by bond Jide purchase, and the claim of the state, now advocated by Gracchus, was regarded as downright robbery. At- tacks upon property have produced the greatest convulsions in all states, and the Roman landowners weir- ready to have recourse to any measures to defeat the law. But the thousands who would be benefited by it were determined to support Tiberius at any risk He told them that " tbe wild beasts of Italy had their dens, and holes, and hiding-places, while the men who fbught and bled in de- fense of Italy wandered about with their wives and children with- out a spot of ground to rest upon." It was evident that the law would be carried, and the landowners therefore resorted to the only means left to them, They persuaded M. Octavius, one of the Trib- unes, to put his veto upon the measure of his colleague. This was a fatal and unexpected obstacle. In vain did Tiberius imploro P.U. 133. TRIBUNATE OF TIBERIUS GRACCHUS. JM Octavius yj withdraw his veto. The contest between the Tribunes continued for many days. Tiberius retaliated by forbidding the magistrates to exercise any of their functions, and by suspending, in fact, the entire administration of the government. But Octa- vius remained firm, and Tiberius therefore determined to depose him from his office. He summoned an Assembly of the People and put the question to the vote. Seventeen out of the thirty-five tribes had already voted for the deposition of Octavius, and the addition of one tribe would reduce him to a private condition, when Tiberius stopped the voting, anxious, at the last moment, to prevent the necessity of so desperate a measure. Octavius, how ever, would not yield. "Complete what you have begun," w.^ his only answer to the entreaties of his colleague. The eight- eenth tribe voted, and Tiberius ordered him to be dragged from the rostra. Octavius had only exercised his undoubted rights, and his deposition was clearly a violation of the Roman constitution. This gave the enemies of Gracchus the handle which they needed. They could now justly charge him not only with revolutionary measures, but with employing revolutionary means to carry them into effect. The Agrarian Law was passed without farther opposition, and the three commissioners elected to put it in force were Tiberius himself, his father-in-law Appius Claudius, and his brother Cams, then a youth of twenty, serving under P. Scipio at Numantia About the same time news arrived of the death of Attalus Philo- metor, king of Pergamus, who had bequeathed his kingdom and treasures to the Republic. Tiberius therefore proposed that these treasures should be distributed among the people who had received assignments of lands, to enable them to stock their farms and to assist them in their cultivation. He even went so far as to threat- en to deprive the Senate of the regulation of the new province, and to bring the subject before the Assembly of the People. The exasperation of the Nobility was intense. They tried every means to blacken the character of the Tribune, and even spread a report that lie had received a diadem and a purple robe from the envoy from Pergamus, and that he meditated making himself King of Rome. It was evident that his life would be no longer safe when he ceased to be protected by the sanctity of the Tribune's office. Accordingly, he became a candidate for the Tribunate for the following year. The Tribunes did not enter upon their office till December, but the election took place in June, at which time the country }>cople, on whom he chiefly relied, were engaged in getting in the harvest. Still, two tribes had already voted in his favor, when the nobility interrupted the election by maintaining 152 HISTORY OF EOME. CHAP. XXt that it was illegal, since no man could be chosen Tribune for two consecutive years. After a violent debate the Assembly was ad- journed till the following day. Tiberius now became alarmed lest his enemies should get the upper hand, and he went round the forum with his child, appealing to the sympathy of the people and imploring their aid. They readily responded to liis appeal, es- corted him home, and a large crowd kept watch around his house all night. Next day the adjourned Assembly met on the Capitol in the open space in front of the Temple of Jupiter. The Senate alsa assembled in the Temple of Faith close by. Scipio Nasica, the leader of the more violent party in the Senate, cxlled upon the Consul Mucius Scayvota to stop the re-election, but the Consul declined to interfere. Fulvius Flaccus, a Senator, and a friend of Tiberius, hastened to inform him of the speech of Nasica, and told him that his death was resolved upon. Thereupon the friends of Tiberius prepared to resist force by force; and as those at a dis- tance could not hear him, on account of the tumult and confusion, the Tribune pointed Avith his hand to his head, to intimate that his life was in danger. His enemies exclaimed that he was asking for the crown. The news reached the Senate. Nasiea appealed to the Consul to save the Republic, but as Sc3vola still refused to have recourse to violence, Nasica sprung up and exclaimed, "The Consul is betraying the Republic ! let those who wish to save the state follow me." He then rushed out of the Senate-house, fol- lowed by many of the Senators. The people made way for them ; and they, breaking up the benches, armed themselves with sticks, and rushed upon Tiberius and his friends. The. tribune fled to the Temple of Jupiter, but the door had been barred by the priests, and in his flight he fell over a prostrate body. As he was rising he received the first blow from one of his colleagues^ and was quickly dispatched. Upward of 300 of his partisans were slain on the same day. Their bodies were thrown into the Tiber. This was the first blood shed at Rome in civil strife since the expulsion of the kings. Notwithstanding their victory, the Nobles did not venture to pro. pose the repeal of the Agrarian Law, and a new Commissioner was chosen in the place of Tiberius. The popular indignation was so strongly excited against Scipio Nasica that his friends advised him to withdraw from Italy, though he was Fontifex Maximus,, and therefore ought not to have quitted the country. He died shortly afterward at Fergamus. All eyes were now turned to Scipio Africanus, who returned to Rome in B.C, 132. When. Scipio received at Numantia the news B.C. 133. MUKDEK OF SCiriO AFRICANUS 153 of the death of Tiberius, he is reported to have exclaimed in the verse of Homer* "So perish all who do the like again." The people may have thought that the brother-in-law of Tiberius would show some sympathy with his reforms and some sorrow for his fate. They were, however, soon undeceived. Being asked in t'.ie Assembly of the Tribes by C. Papirius Carbo, the Tribune, who was now the leader of the popular party, what he thought of the death of Tiberius, he boldly replied that "he was justly slain." The people, who had probably expected a different answer, loudly expressed their disapprobation ; whereupon Scipio, turning to the mob, bade them be silent, since Italy was only their step-mother. "t The people did not forget this insult; but such was his influence and authority that the Nobility were able to defeat the bill of Carbo by which the Tribunes might be re-elected as often as the people pleased. Scipio was now regarded as the acknowledged leader of the Nobility, and the latter resolved to avail themselves of his powerful aid to prevent the Agrarian Law of Tiberius from being carried into effect. The Italians were alarmed at the pros* pect of losing some of their lands, and Scipio skillfully availed him- self of the circumstance to propose in the Senate (n.c. 129) that all disputes respecting the lands of the Italians should be taken out of the hands of the Commissioners and transferred to the Con- suls. This would have been equivalent to an abrogation of the law, and accordingly the three Commissioners offered the most ve- hement opposition to his proposal. In the forum he was attacked by Carbo, with the bitterest invectives, as the enemy of the people ; and upon his again expressing his approval of the death of Tiberius, the people shouted out, "Down with the tyrant!" In the evening he went home accompanied by the Senate and a great number of the Italians. He retired to his sleeping-room with the intention of composing a speech for the following day. Next morning Rome was thrown into consternation by the news that Scipio was found dead in his room. The most contradictory rumors were circu- lated respecting his death, but it was the general opinion that he Avas murdered. Suspicion fell upon various persons, but Carbo was most generally believed to have been the murderer. There was no inquiry into the cause of his death (n.c. 129). Scipio was only 5G at the time of his death. To the Republic * Off., i. 47. t It must be recollected that the mob at Koine consisted chiefly of the four cit7 tribes, and that slaves when manumitted could be enrolled in these four tribes 154 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXI. his loss was irreparable. By his last act he had come forward as the patron of the Italians. Had he lived he might have incorpo- rated them in the Roman state, and by forming a united Italy have saved Rome from many of the horrors and disasters which she aft- erward suffered. The leaders of the popular party perceived the mistake they had made in alienating the Italians from their cause, and they now se- cured their adhesion by offering them the Roman citizenship if they would support the Agrarian Law. As Roman citizens they would, of course, be entitled to the benefits of the law, while they would, at the same time, obtain what they hr.d so long desired an equal share in political power. But the existing citizens, who saw that their own importance would be diminished by an increase in their numbers, viewed such a proposal with the utmost repug- nance. So strong was their feeling that, when great numbers of the Italians had flecked to Rome in B.C. 326, the Tribune M. Ju- nius Pennus carried a law that all aliens should quit the city. Caius Gracchus spoke against this law, and his friends still remain- ed faithful to the cause of the Italians. In the following year (B.C. 125), M. Fulvius Flaccus, who was then Consul, brought forward a Reform Bill, granting the Roman citizenship to all the Italian al- lies. But it was evident that the Tribes would reject this law, and the Senate got rid of flic proposer by sending him into Transal- pine Gaul, where the M;>.s.-ilians had implored the assistance of Rome against the Salluvians. In the previous year Caius Grac- chus had gone to Sardinia as Qua'stor, so that the Senate had noAv removed from Rome two of their most troublesome opponents, and the Italians had lost their two most powerful patrons. Bitter was the disappointment of the Italians. Fregclla?, a town of Latium, and one of the eighteen Latin colonies which had remained faith- ful to Rome during the Second Punic War, took up arms, but its example was not followed, and it had to bear alone the brunt of the unequal contest. It was quickly reduced by the Pnvtor L. Opimius ; the city was utterly destroyed; and the insurrection, which a slight success would have made universal, was thus nipped in its bud (B.C. 125). Caius. Gracchus had taken very little part in public affairs since his brother's death. He had spoken only twice in public ; once in favor of the law of Carbo for the re-election of Tribunes, and a second time in opposition to the Alien Act of Junius Pennus, as already mentioned. But the eyes of the people were naturally turned toward him. His abilities Avere known, and the Senate dreaded his return to Rome. He had been already two years in Sardinia, and they now attempted to retain him there another year B.C. 123. CAIUS GUACCHUS ELECTED TRIBUNE. 157 "by sending fresh troops to the province, and by commanding tho Proconsul to remain in the island. But Gains suddenly appeared at Home, to the surprise of all parties (B.C. 124). His enemies brought him before the Censors to account for his conduct, but ho defended himself so ably that not only was no stigma put upon him, but he was considered to have been very badly used. Ho showed that he had served in the army twelve years, though re, quired to serve only ten ; that he had acted as Quaestor two years, though the law demanded only one year's service ; and he added that he was the only soldier who took out with him a full purso and brought it back empty. Exasperated by the persecution of the Senate, Caius determined to become a candidate for theTribuneship, and to reform the Ro- man constitution. He was elected for the year B.C. 123, and lost no time in bringing forward a number of important measures which are known as the Sempronian Laws. His legislation was direct- ed to two objects: the amelioration of the condition of the poor, and the weakening of the power of the Senate. Caius was the greatest orator of all his contemporaries; the contagion of his elo- quence was irresistible, and the enthusiasm of the people enabled him to carry every thing before him. I. His principal laws for improving the condition of the people were : 1. The extension of the Agrarian Law of his brother by planting new colonies in Italy and the provinces. 2. A state provision for the poor, enacting that corn should be sold to every citizen at a price much below its market value. This was the first of the Leges Fruuientarld', which were attended with the most injurious effects. They emptied the treasury, at the same time that they taught the poor to become state paupers, instead of depending upon their own exertions for a living. 3. Another law enacted that the soldiers should be equipped at the expense of the Republic, without the cost being deducted from their pay, as had hitherto been the case. II. The most important laws designed to diminish the power of the Senate were : 1 . The law by which the Jtidices were to be taken only from the Ivmites, and not from the Senators, as had been the custom hith- erto. This was a very important enactment, and needs a little ex- planation. All offenses against the state were originally tried in the Popular Assc'inblv ; but when special enactments were passed for the trial of particular offenses, the practice was introduced of forming a body of Judices for the trial of these offenses. This was first done upon the passing of the Calpurnian Law (B.C. 149) for 158 HISTORY OF HOME. CHA.P. XXT. the punishment of provincial magistrates for extortion in their gov- eminent (L>e Rcpetcndis'). Such offenses had to be tried before the Praitor and a jury of Senators; but as these very Senators ei- ther had been or hoped to be provincial magistrates, they were not disposed to visit Avith severity offenses of which they themselves ei- ther had been or were likely to be guilty. By depriving the Sen- ators of this judicial power, and by transferring it to the Equates, Gracchus also made the latter a political order in the state apart from their military character. The name of Equites was now ap- plied to all persons who were qualified by their fortune to act as Judiccs, whether they served in the army or not. From this nmo is dated the creation of an Ordo Jiqiiestris, whose interests were fre- quently opposed to those of the Senate, and who therefore served as a check upon the latter. 2. Another law was directed against the arbitrary proceedings of the Senate in the distribution of the provinces. Hitherto the Senate had assigned the provinces to the Consuls after their elec- tion, and thus had had it in their power to grant wealthy govern- ments to their partisans, or unprofitable ones to those opposed to them. It was now enacted that, before the election of the Consuls, the Senate should determine the two provinces which the Consuls should have ; and that they should, immediately after election, set- tle between themselves, by lot or otherwise, which province each should take. These laws raised the popularity of Cains still higher, and he be- came for a time the absolute ruler of Rome. He was re-elected Tribune for the following year (n.c. 122), though he did not offer himself as a candidate. M. Fulvius Flaccus, who had been Consul in 15. c. 125, was also chosen as one of his colleagues. Flaccus, it will be recollected, had proposed in his consulship to give the llo- man franchise to the Italian allies, and it was now determined to bring forward a similar measure. Cains therefore brought in a bill conferring the citizenship upon all the Latin colonies, and making the Italian allies occupy the position which the Latins had previously held. This wise measure was equally disliked in the forum and the Senate. Neither the influence nor the eloquence of Gracchus could induce the people to view with satisfaction the admission of the Italian allies to equal rights and privileges with themselves. The Senate, perceiving that the popularity of Grac- chus had been somewhat shaken by this measure, employed his col- league, M. Livius Drusus who was noble, well-educated, wealthy, and eloquent to undermine his influence with the people. With the sanction of the Senate, Drusus now endeavored to outbid Grac- chus. He played the part of a demagogue in order to supplant B.C. 121. CAIUS GRACCHUS AND M. L, DRUSUS. 159 the true friend of the people. lie gave to the Senate the credit of every popular law which lie proposed, and gradually impressed the people with the belief that the Nobles were their best friends. Gracchus proposed to found two colonies at Tarentum and Capua, and named among the founders some of the most respectable citi- zens. Drusus introduced a law for establishing no fewer than twelve colonies, and for settling 3000 poor citizens in each. Grac- thus, in the distribution of the public land, reserved a rent payable to the public treasury. Drusus abolished even this payment. He also gained the confidence cf the people by asking no favor for himself; he took no part in the foundation of colonies, and left to others the management of business in which any money had to be expended. Gracchus, on the other hand, superintended every thing in person ; and the people, always jealous in pecuniary matters, began to suspect his motives. During his absence in Africa, whith- er he had gone as one of the three Commissioners for founding a colony upon the ruins of Carthage, Drusus was able to weaken his popularity still farther. On his return he endeavored in vain to reorganize his party and recover his power. Both he and Flaccus failed in being re-elected Tribunes ; while L. Opimius and Q. Fa- bius, two personal enemies of Gracchus, were raised to the Consul- ship. The two new Consuls had no sooner entered upon office (n.c. 121) than they resolved to drive matters to extremities. One of the first measures of Opimius was a proposal to repeal the law for colonizing Carthage, because it had been established upon the site which Scipio had cursed. It was evident that a pretext was only sought for taking the life of Gracchus, and Flaccus urged him to repel violence by force. Cains shrunk from this step, hut an ac- cident gave his enemies the pretext which they longed for. The tribes had assembled at the Capitol to decide upon the colony at Carthage, when a servant of the Consul Opimius, pushing against Gracchus, insolently cried out, "Make way for honest men, you rascals." Gracchus turned round to him with an angry look, and the man was immediately stabbed by an unknown hand. The as- sembly immediately broke up, and Gracchus returned home, fore- seeing the advantage which this unfortunate occurrence would give to his enemies. The Senate declared Gracchus and Flaccus public enemies, and invested the Consuls with dictatorial powers. Dur- ing the night Opimius took possession of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, which overlooked the forum ; summoned a meeting of the Senate for the following morning, and ordered all the partisans of the Senate to be present, each with two armed slaves. Flaccus seized the Temple of Diana on the Aventine, and distributed arms to his followers: here he was joined by Gracchus. Civil war was 160 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXI. thus declared. After some fruitless attempts at negotiation, the Consul jM'oceeded to attack the Aventine. Little or no resistance \vas made, and Flaccus and Gracchus took to flight, and crossed the Tiber by the Snblician bridge. Gracchus escaped to the Grove of the Furies, accompanied only by a single slave. When the pur- suers reached the spot they found both of them dead. The slave had first killed his master and then himself. The head of Grac- chus was cut off, and carried to Opimius, who gave to the person Who brought it its weight in gold. Flaccus was also put to death, together with numbers of his party. Their corpses were thrown into the Tiber, their houses demolished, and their property confis- cated. Even their widows were forbidden to wear mourning. Aft- er the bloody work had been finished, the Consul, by order of the Senate, dedicated a temple to Concord ! At a later time statues of the two Gracchi were set up in public places, and the spots on which they fell were declared holy ground ; but for the present no one dared to show any sympathy for their fate. Their mother Cornelia retired to Misenum, where she was visited by the most distinguished men. She loved to recount to her guests the story of her noble sons, and narrated their death without showing sorrow or shedding tears, as if she had been speak- ing of heroes of the olden time. SENATVS POFVJLVSQE IXCENDIO COKSVMPTVM - RF.S'TITVEHK Temple of Saturn at Rome. A Roman Trophy. CHAPTER XXII. JCGURTHA AND HIS TIMES. B.C. 118-104. THK murder of C. Gracchus and his adherents left the Nobility undisputed masters of the state, till their scandalous conduct in the Jugurthau War provoked a reaction against them, and raised to power a more terrible opponent than the Gracclii had ever been. This man, who took such signal vengeance upon the Nobility, was the lowborn MARIUS. He was a native of Arpinum, and was said to have worked for wages as a common peasant before lie en- tered the ranks of the army. He first served in Spain, and was present at the siege of Numantia in B.C. 134. Here he distin- guished himself so much that he attracted the notice of Scipio Africanus, and received from him many marks of honor. Scipio indeed admitted him to his table ; and on a certain occasion, when cue of the guests asked Scipio where the Roman people would find L 102 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXII. such another general after his death, he is said to have laid his hand on the shoulder of Marius, and said, "Perhaps here." The name of Marius does not occur again for many years, but he doubt, less continued to serve in ihe army, and became so distinguished that he was at length raised to the Tribunate of the Plebs in B.C. 119, though not till he had attained the mature age of 38. Only two years had elapsed since the death of C. Gracchus ; and the Nobles, flushed with victory, resolved to put down with a high hand the least invasion of their privileges and power. But Marius had the boldness to propose a law for the purpose of giving greater free- dom at elections ; and when the Senate attempted to overawe him, he ordered one of his officers to carry the Consul Metellus to prison. Marius now became a marked man. He lost his election to the jEdileship, and with difficulty obtained the Progtorship (B.C. 115); but he added to his influence by his marriage with Julia, the sister of C. Julius Ccesar, the father of the future ruler of Rome. His military abilities recommended him to the Consul Metellus (B.C. 100), who was anxious to restore discipline in the army and to retrieve the glory of the Roman name, which had been tarnish- ed by the incapacity and corruption of the previous generals in the Jugnrthan War, which now requires our attention. Masinissa, the ruler of Numidia, and so long the faithful ally of the Romans, had died in B.C. 149, at the advanced age of 90, leav- ing three sons, Micipsa, Mastanabal, and Gulussa, among whom his kingdom was divided by Scipio Africanus, according to the cly-' ing directions of the old king. Mastanabal and Gulussa dying in their brother's lifetime, Micipsa became sole king. Jugnrtha was a bastard son of Mastanabal ; but Micipsa brought him up with his own sens, Hiempsal and Adherbal. Jugurtha distinguished himself so much that he began to excite the jealousy of Micipsa. In order to remove him to a distance, and not without a hope that he might perish in the war, Micipsa sent him, in B.C. 134, with an auxiliary force, to assist Scipio against Numantia ; but this only proved to the young man a fresh occasion of distinction. By his zeal, courage, and ability he gained the favor not only of his com- mander, but of all the leading nobles in the Roman camp, by many of whom he was secretly stimulated to nourish ambitious schemes for acquiring the sole sovereignty of Numidia; and notwithstand- ing the contrary advice of Scipio, the counsels seem to have sunk deep into the mind of Jugurtha. On his return he wns received with every demonstration of honor by Micipsa; nor did he allow his ambitious projects to break forth during the lifetime of the old man. Micipsa, on his death-bed, though but too clearly foreseeing what would happen, commended the two young princes to the care B.C. 118-104. aUGURTHA AND HIS TIMES. 103 of Jugurtha ; but at the very first interview which took place be- tween them after his decease (B.C. 118) their dissensions broke out with the utmost fierceness. Shortly afterward Jugurtha found an opportunity to surprise and assassinate Hiempsal; whereupon Ad- hcrbal and his partisans rushed to arms, but were defeated in bat= tie by Jugurtha. Adherbal himself fled for refuge to the Roman province, from whence he hastened to Rome to lay his cause be- fore the Senate, Jugurtha had now the opportunity, for the first time, of putting to the test tlu\t which he had learnt in the camp before Numantia of the venality and corruption of the Roman no- bility. He sent embassadors to Rome to counteract, by a lavish distribution of bribes, the effect of the just complaints of Adherbal, and by these means succeeded in averting the indignation of the Senate. A decree was, however, passed for the division of the kingdom of Xumidia between the two competitors, and a commit- tee of Senators sent to enforce its execution ; but as soon as these arrived in Africa, Jugurtha succeeded in gaining them over by the same unscrupulous methods, and obtained, in the partition of the kingdom, the western division adjacent to Mauritania, by far the larger and richer portion of the two (B.C. 117). But this advan- tage was far from contenting him, and shortly afterward he in- vaded th3 territories of his rival with a large army. Adherbal was defeated in the first engagement, his camp taken, ami lie him- self with difficulty made his escape to the strong fortress of Cirta. Here he was closely blockaded by Jugurtha. The garrison sur- rendered on a promise of their lives being spared; but these con- ditions were shamefully violated by Jugurtha, who immediately put to death Adherbal ard all his followers (B.C. 112). Indignation was now loud at Rome against the Numidian king; yet so powerful was the influence of those whose favor he had gained by his gold, that he would probably have prevailed upoai the Senate to overlook all his misdeeds, had not one of the Trib- unes, C. Memmius, by bringing the matter before the people, com- pelled the Senators to give way. War was accordingly declared again st him, and one of the Consuls, L. Calpurnius Bestia, landed in Africa with a large army, and immediately proceeded to invade Kumidia (B.C. 111). But Jugurtha easily bribed Bestia and M. Scaurus, who acted as his principal lieutenant, to grant him a fa- vorable peace, on condition only of a pretended submission, to- gether with the surrender of thirty elephants and a small sum of money. As soon as the tidings of this disgraceful transaction reached Rome, the indignation excited was so great that, on the proposition of C. Memmius, it was agreed to send the Tractor L. CaSsius, a man of the highest integrity, to Numidia, in order to 364 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXIL prevail on the king to repair in person to Rome, the popular party hoping to be able to convict the leaders of the Nobility by means of his evidence. The safe-conduct granted him by the state was religiously observed ; but the scheme failed of its effect, for, as soon as Jugurtha was brought forward in the assembly of the people to make his statement, one of the Tribunes, who had been previously gained over by the friends of Scaurus and Bestia, forbade him to speak. He nevertheless remained at Rome for some time longer, and engaged in secret intrigues, which would probably have been ultimately crowned with success had he not in the mean time ven- tured to assassinate Massiva, son of Gulussa, who was putting in a claim to the Numidian throne. It was impossible to overlook so daring a crime, perpetrated under the very eyes of the Senate. Jugurtha was ordered to quit Italy without delay. It was on this occasion that he is said, when leaving Rome, to have uttered the memorable words, "A city for ?ale, and destined to perish quickly, if it can find a purchaser." "\Y;ir was now inevitable; but the incapacity of Sp. Postumius Albinus. who arrived to conduct it (B.C. 110), and still more that of his brother Aulus, whom he left to command in his absence, when called away to hold the elections at Rome, proved as favora- ble to Jugurtha as the corruption of their predecessors. Aulus, having penetrated into the heart of Numidia, suffered himself to be surprised in his camp ; great part of his army was cut to pieces, and the rest only escaped a similar fate by the ignominy of passing under the yoke. But Jugurtha had little reason to rejoice in this success, great as it might at first appear ; for the disgrace at once roused all the spirit of the Roman people; the treaty concluded by Aulus was instantly annulled, immense exertions made to raise troops, and one of the Consuls for the new year (B.C. 109), Q. Cce- cilius Metellus, hastened to Numidia to retrieve the honor of the Roman arms. But this did not satisfy the people. The scandal- ous conduct of so many of the Nobles had given fresh life to the popular party ; and the Tribune C. Mamilius carried a bill for the appointment of three Commissioners to inquire into the conduct of all of those who had received bribes from Jugurtha. Scaurus, though one of the most guilty, managed to be put upon the Com= mission. But he dared not shield his confederates. Many men of the highest rank were condemned, among whom were Bestia, Albinus, and Opimius. The last named was the Opimius who act- ed with such ferocity toward Cains Gracchus and his party. He died in exile at Dyrrhachinm some years afterward, in great pov- erty. The Consul Metellus, who was an able general and a man of B.C. 118-104. JUGURTHA AND HIS TIMES. 165 the strictest integrity, landed in Africa, with Marias as his lieuten- ant, in B.C. 109. As soon as Jugurtha discovered the character of the new commander he began to despair of success, and made overtures for submission in earnest. These were apparently en- tertained by Metellus, while he sought in fact to gain over the ad- herents of the king, and induce them to betray him to the Romans, at the same time that he continued to advance into the enemy's territories. Jugurtha, in his turn, detected his designs, attacked him suddenly on his march with a numerous force, but was, after a severe struggle, repulsed, and his army totally routed. Metellus ravaged the greater part of the country, but failed in taking the important town of Zama before he withdrew into winter quarters.. But he had produced such an effect upon the Numidian king, that Jugurtha was induced, in the course of the winter, to make offers of unqualified submission, and even surrendered all his elephants, with a number of arms and horses, and a large sum of money, to the Roman general ; but when called upon to place himself per- sonally in the power of Metellus, his courage failed him, he broke off the negotiation, and once more had recourse to arms. Marius had greatly distinguished himself in the preceding campaign. The readiness with which he shared the toils of the common soldiers, eating of the same food, and working at the same trenches with them, had endeared him to them, and through their letters to their friends at Rome his praises were in every body's mouth. His in- creasing reputation and popularity induced him to aspire to the Consulship. His hopes were increased by a circumstance which happened to him at Utica. While sacrificing at this place the of- ficiating priest told him that the victims predicted some great and wonderful events, and bade him execute whatever purpose he had in his mind, Marius thereupon applied to Metellus for leave of absence, that he might proceed to Rome and offer himself as a candidate. The Consul, who belonged to a family of the highest nobility, at first tried to dissuade Marius from his presumptuous attempt, by pointing out the certainty of failure ; and when lie could not prevail upon him to abandon his design, he civilly evaded his request by pleading the exigencies of the public service, which required his presence and assistance. But, as Marius still continued to press him for leave of absence, Metellus said to him, on one occasion, "You need not be in such a hurry to go to Rome; it will be quite time enough for you to apply for the Consulship along with my son." The latter, who was then serving with the army, was a youth of only twenty years of age, and could not, therefore, become a candidate for the Consulship for the next twenty years. This insult was never forgotten by Marius. lie 166 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXI L now began to intrigue against his general, and to represent that the war was purposely prolonged by Metellus to gratify his own vanity and love of military power. He openly declared that with one half of the army he would soon have Jugurtha in chains ; and as all his remarks were carefully reported at Borne, the people be- gan to regard him as the only person competent to finish the war. Metellus at last allowed him to leave Africa, but only twelve days before the election. Meeting with a favorable wind, he arrived at Home in time, and was elected Consul with an enthusiasm which bore down all opposition. He received from the people the prov- ince of Numidia. although the Senate had previously decreed that Metellus should continue in his command. The exultation of Marius knew no bounds. In his speeches to the public, he gloried in his humble origin. He upbraided the Nobles with their effem- inacy and licentiousness ; he told them that he looked upon the Consulship as a trophy of his conquest over them ; and he proudly compared his own wounds and military experience with their indo- lence and ignorance of war. It was a great triumph for the peo- ple and a great humiliation for the aristocracy, and Marius made them drink to the dregs the bitter cup. While engaged in these attacks upon the Nobility, he at the same time carried on a levy of troops with great activity, and enrolled any persons who chose to offar for the service, however poor and mean, instead of taking them from the five classes according to ancient custom.* Meantime Metellus had been carrying on the war in Africa as Proconsul (n.c. 108). But the campaign was not productive of such decisive results as might have been expected. Jugurtha avoided any general action, and eluded the pursuit of Metelhis b'y the rapidity of his movements. Even when driven from Thala, a strong-hold which he had deemed inaccessible from its position in the midst of arid deserts, he only retired among the Ga?tulians, and quickly succeeded in raising among those wild tribes a fresh army, with which he once more penetrated into the heart of Numidia. A still more important accession was that of Bocchus, king of Mauritania, who had been prevailed upon to raise an arm}', and advance to the support of Jugurtha, Metellus, however, having now relaxed his own efforts, from disgust at hearing that C. Marius had been appointed to succeed him in the command, remained on the defensive, while he sought to amuse the Moorish king by ne- gotiation. The arrival of Marius (B c. 107) infused fresh vigor into the Ro- man arms. He quickly reduced in succession almost all the strong- holds that still remained to Jugurtha, in some of which the king fl On this important ehsvnge in the T?omnn army, see p. 12 I. B.C. 107-10G. MARIUS AND SULLA. 167 had deposited his principal treasures ; and the latter, seeing him. self thus deprived step by step of all his dominions, at length de- termined on a desperate attempt to retrieve his fortunes by one grand effort, lie with difficulty prevailed on the wavering Bocchus, by the most extensive promises in case of success, to co-operate with him in this enterprise ; and the two kings, with their united forces, attacked Marius on his march, when he was about to retire into winter quarters. Though the Roman general was taken by surprise for a moment, his consummate skill and the discipline of his troops proved again triumphant ; the Numidians were repulsed, and their army, as usual with them in case of a defeat, dispersed in all directions. Jugurtha himself, after displaying the greatest cour- age in the action, cut his way almost alone through a body of Ro- man cavalry, and escaped from the field of battle. He quickly again gathered round him a body of Numidian horse ; but his only hope of continuing the war now rested on Bocchus. The latter was for some time uncertain what course to adopt, but was at length gain- ed over by Sulla, the Quaestor of Marius, to the Roman cause, and joined in a plan for seizing the person of the Numidian king. Ju- gurtha fell into the snare ; he was induced, under pretense of a conference, to repair with only a few followers to meet Bocchus, when he was instantly surrounded, his attendants cut to pieces, and he himself made prisoner, and delivered in chains to Sulla, by whom he was conveyed directly to the camp of Marius. This oc- curred early in the year B.C. 10G. L. Cornelius Sulla, the Quaestor of Marius, who afterward pbys such a distinguished part in Roman history, was descended from a Patrician family which had been reduced to great obscurity. But his means were sufficient to secure him a good education. He studied the Greek and Roman writers with diligence and success, and early imbibed that love of literature and art by which he was distinguished throughout his life. But he was also fond of pleas- ure, and was conspicuous even among the Romans for licentious- ness and debauchery. He was in every respect a contrast to Ma- rius. He possessed all the accomplishments and all the vices which the old Cato had been most accustomed to denounce, and he was one of those advocates of Greek literature and of Greek profligacy who had since Cato's time become more and more common among the Roman Nobles. But Sulla's love of pleasure did not absorb all his time, nor enfeeble his mind; for no Roman during the lat- ter days of the Republic, with the exception of Julius Ca>ar, had a clearer judgment, a keener discrimination of character, or a firmer will. Upon his arrival in Africa, Marius was not well pleased that a Qiuvstor Ind been assigned to him who was only known for his 1G8 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXII. profligacy, and who had had no experience in war ; but the zeal and energy with which Sulla attended to his new duties soon rendered him a useful and skillful officer, and gained for him the unquali- fied approbation of his commander, notwithstanding his previous prejudices against him. He was equally successful in winning the affections of the soldiers. He always addressed them with the greatest kindness, seized every opportunity of conferring favors upon them, was ever ready to take part in all the jests of the camp, and at the same time never shrank from sharing in all their labors and dangers. It is a curious circumstance that Marius gave to his fu- ture enemy and the destroyer of his family and j arty the first op- portunity of distinguishing himself. The enemies of Marius claim- ed for Sulla the glory of the betrayal of Jugurtha, and Sulla him- self took the credit of it by always wearing a signet ring repre- senting the scene of the surrender. Marius continued more than a year in Africa after the capture of Jugurtha. He entered Rome on the first of Jnnuary, B.C. 10-i, lead- ing Jugurtha in triumph. The Numidian king was then thrown into a dungeon, and there starved to death. Marius, during his absence, had been elected Consul a second time, and he entered upon his office on the day of his triumph. The reason of this un- precedented honor will be related in the following chapter. Soldiers blowing Tubee and Cornua. (From Column of Trajan.) C'aius Marius. CHAPTER XXIII. THE CIMBRI AND TEUTONES, B.C. 113-101. SECOND SERVILE WAR IX SICILY, B.C. 103-101. A GREATER danger % than Rome had experienced since the time of Hannibal now threatened the state. Vast numbers of barbari- ans, such as spread over the south of Europe in the later times of the Roman Empire, had collected together on the northern side of the Alps, and were ready to pour down upon Italy. The two lead- ing nations of which they consisted are called Cimbri and Teutones, of whom the former were probably Celts and the latter Germans, but the exact parts of Europe from which they came can not be as- certained. The whole host is said to have contained 300,000 fight- ing men, besides a much larger number of women and children. The alarm at Rome was still farther increased by the ill success which had hitherto attended the arms of the Republic against these barbarians. Army after army had fallen before them. The Cimbri were first heard of in B.C. 113, in Noricum, whence they descended into Illyricum, and defeated a Roman army under the command of Cn. Papirius Carbo. They then marched westward into Switzer- land, where they were joined by the Tigurini and the Ambroncs. They next poured over Gaul, which they plundered and ravaged in every direction. The Romans sent army after army to defend the southwestern part of the country, which was now a Roman prov- ince ; but all in vain. In B.C. 109 the Consul M. Junins Silamis WAS defeated by the Cimbri ; in B.C. 107 the Tigurini cut in pieces, near the Lake of Geneva, the army of the Consul L. Cassius Lon- 170 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXIII ginus, the colleague of Marius, who lost his life in the battle ; and shortly afterward M. Aurelius Scaurus was also defeated and taken prisoner. But the most dreadful loss was still to come. In B.C. 105 two consular armies, commanded by the Consul Cn, Mallius Maximus and the Proconsul Cn. Servilius Cajpio, consisting of 80,000 men, were completely annihilated by the barbarians: only two men are said to have escaped the slaughter. These repeated disasters hushed all party quarrels. Every one at Rome felt that Marius was the only man capable of saving the state, and he was accordingly elected Consul by the unanimous votes of all parties while he was still absent in Africa. He enter- ed Rome in triumph, as we have already said, on the 1st of Janu- ary, B.C. 101, which was the first day of his second Consulship. Meantime the threatened danger was for a while averted. Instead of crossing the Alps and pouring down upon Italy, as had been ex- pected, the Cimbri marched into Spain, which they ravaged for the next two or three years. This interval was advantageously em- ployed by Marius in training the new troops, and accustoming them to hardships and toil. It was probably during this time that he introduced the various changes into the organization of the Ro- man army which are usually attributed to him. Notwithstanding the sternness and severity with which he punished the least breacn of discipline, he was a favorite with his new soldiers, who learned to place implicit confidence in their general, and were delighted with the strict impartiality with which he visit'ed the offenses of the officers as well as of the privates. As the enemy still continued in Spain, Marius was elected Consul a third time for the year B.C. 103, and also a fourth time for the following year, with Q. Lutatius Catulus as his colleague. It was in this year (B.C. 102) that the long-expected barbarians arrived. The Cimbri, who had returned from Spain, united their forces with the Teutones. Marius first. took up his position in a fortified camp upon the Rhone, probably in the vicinity of the modern Aries ; and as the entrance of the river was nearly blocked up by mud and sand, he employed his sol- diers in digging a canal from the Rhone to the Mediterranean, that he might the more easily obtain his supplies from the sea.* Mean- time the barbarians had divided their forces. The Cimbri march- ed round the northern foot of the Alps, in order to enter Italy by the northeast, crossing the Tyrolese Alps by the defiles of Triden- tum {Trent'). The Teutones and Ambrones, on the other hand, inarched against Marius, intending, as it seems, to penetrate into Italy bv Nice and the Riviera of Genoa. Marius, anxious to ac- * This canal continued to exist long afterward, and bore the name of Fossa Nan ina. B.C. 113-101. THE CIMBRI AND TEUTONES. 171 custom bis soldiers to the savage and strange appearance of the barbarians, would not give them battle at first. The latter resolved to attack tbe Roman camp; but as they were repulsed in this at- tempt, they pressed on at once for Italy. So great were their num- lers, that they are said to have been six days in marching by the Roman camp. As soon as they had advanced a little way, Marius followed them 5 and thus the armies continued to march for a few days, the barbarians in the front and Marius behind, till they came to the neighborhood of Aqua Sextiaj (Aix*). Here the decisive bat- tle was fought. An ambush of 3000 soldiers, which Marius had stationed in the rear of the barbarians, and which fell upon them when they were already retreating, decided the fortune of the day. Attacked both in front and rear, and also dreadfully exhausted by the excessive heat of the weather, they at length broke their ranks and fled. The carnage was dreadful ; the whole nation was anni- hilated, for those who escaped put an end to their lives, and their wives followed their example. Immediately after the battle, as Marius was in the act of setting fire to the vast heap of broken arms which was intended as an offering to the gods, horsemen rode up to him, and greeted him with the news of his being elected Con- sul for the fifth time. The Cimbri, in the mean time, had forced their way into Italy. The colleague of Marius, Q. Lutatius Catulus, despairing of de- fending the passes of the Tyrol, had taken up a strong position on the Athesis (Adige) ; but, in consequence of the terror of his sol- diers at the approach of the barbarians, he was obliged to retreat even beyond the Po, thus leaving the whole of the rich plain of Lombardy exposed to their ravages. Marius was therefore recalled to Rome. The Senate offered him a triumph for his victory over the Teutones, which he declined while the Cimbri were in Italy, and proceeded to join Catulus, who now commanded as Proconsul (n.r. 101). The united armies of the Consul and Proconsul cross- ed the Po, and hastened in search of the Cimbri, whom they found to the westward of Milan, near Vercella?, searching for the Teutones, of whose destruction they had not yet heard. The Cimbri met with the same fate as the Teutones; the whole nation was annihi- lated ; and the women, like those of the Teutones, put an end to their lives. Marius was hailed as the savior of the state ; his name was coupled with the gods in the libations and at banquets; and he received the title of third founder of Rome. He celebrated his victories by a brilliant triumph, in which, however, he allowed Ca- tulus to share. During the brilliant campaigns of Marius, Sicily had been ex- posed to the horrors of a second Servile War. The insurrection 172 HISTORY OF HOME. CIIAI-. XXIII. broke out in the cast of the island, where the slaves elected as their king one Salvius, a soothsayer. He displayed considerable abilities, and in a short time collected a force of 20,000 foot and 2000 horse. After defeating a Roman army he assumed all the })omp of ro} r alty, and took the surname of Try phon, which had been borne by a usurper to the Syrian throne. The success of Salvius led to an insurrection in the western part of the island, where the slaves chose as their leader a Cilician named Athenio, Avho joined Tryphon, and acknowledged his sovereignty. Upon the death of Try phon, Athenio became king. The insurrection had now as- sumed such a formidable aspect that, in B.C. 101, the Senate sent the Consul M. Aquillius into Sicily. He succeeded in subduing the insurgents, and killed Athenio with his own hand. The survivors were sent to Rome, and condemned to fight with wild beasts ; but they disdained to minister to the pleasures of their oppressors, and slew each other with their own hands in the amphitheatre. fasces. (From the original in the Capitol at Home.) Tomb of Metella C'aecUia. CHAPTER XXIV. INTERNAL HISTORY OF ROM?: FROM THE DEFEAT OF THE CIMBRI AND TEUTONES TO THE SOCIAL WAI?. B.C. 100-91. THE career of Marius had hitherto been a glorious one, and it- would have been fortunate for him if he had died on the day of his triumph. The remainder of his life is full of horrors, and brings out into prominent relief the worst features of his character. As the time for the consular elections approached, Marius became again a candidate for the Consulship. He wished to be first in peace as well as in war, and to rule the state as well as the army. But he did not possess the qualities requisite for a popular leader at Rome; he had no power of oratory, and lost his presence of mind in the noise and shouts of the popular assemblies. In order to secure his election, he entered into close connection with two of the worst demagogues that ever appeared at Rome, Saturninus and Glaucia. The former was a candidate for the Tribunate, and the latter for the Pra-torship ; and by their means, ns well as by brib- ing the Tribes, Marius secured his election to the Consulship for 174 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXIV. the sixtli time. Glaucia also obtained the Praetorship, but Satur- ninus was not equally successful. He lost his election chiefly through the exertions of A. Nonius, who was chosen in his stead. But Nonius paid dearly for the honor, for on the evening of his election he was murdered by the emissaries of Saturninus and Glaucia, and next morning, at an early hour, before the forum was full, Saturninus was chosen to fill up the vacancy. As soon as Saturninus had entered upon his office (n.c. 100) ho brought forward an Agrarian Law for dividing among the soldiers of Marius the lands in Gaul which had been lately occupied by the Cimbri. He added to the law a clause that, if it was enacted by the people, every Senator should swear obedience to it within five days, and that whoever refused to do so should be expelled from the Senate, and pay a fine of twenty talents. This clause was specially aimed at Metellus, who, it was well known, would refuse to obey the requisition. In order to insure a refusal on the part of Metellus, Marius rose in the Senate, and declared that he would never take the oath, and Metellus made the same declaration; but when the law had been passed, and Saturninus summoned the Senators to the rostra to comply with the demands of the law, Marius, to the astonishment of all, immediately took the oath, and advised the Senate to follow his example. Metellus alone refused compliance ; and on the following day Saturninus sent his beadle to drag him out of the Senate-house. Not content with this vic- tory, Saturninus brought forward a bill to punish him with exile. The friends of Metelius were ready to take up arms in his defense ; but he declined their assistance, and withdrew privately from the city. Satnrninus brought forward other popular measures, of which our information is very scanty. He proposed a Lex Frumer.- taria, by which the state was to sell corn to the people at a very low price ; and also a law for founding new colonies in Sicily, Achaia, and Macedonia. In the election of the magistrates for the following year Saturninus was again chosen Tribune. Glaucia was at the same time a candidate for the Consulship, the two other candidates being M. Antonius and C. Mcmmius. The election of Antonius was certain, and the struggle lay between Glaucia and Memmius. As the latter seemed likely to carry his election, Sat- urninus and Glaucia hired some ruffians, who murdered him open- ly in the comitia. All sensible people had previously become alarmed at the mad conduct of Saturninus and his partisans, and this last act produced a complete reaction against them. The Senate felt themselves now sufficiently strong to declare them public enemies, and invested the Consuls with dictatorial power. Mariua was unwilling to act against his associates, but he had no B.C. 100-91. FACTIONS IN HOME. 175 alternative, and his backwardness was compensated by the zeal of others. Driven out of the forum, Sattirninus, Glaucia, and tho Quaxtor Saufeius took refuge in the Capitol, but the partisans of the Senate cut off the pipes which supplied the citadel with water befura Marius began to move against them. Unable to hold out any longer, they surrendered to Marius. The latter did all he could to save their lives : as soon as they descended from the Cap- itol, ho placed them, for security, in the Curia Hostilia ; but the mob pulled off the tiles of the Senate-house, and pelted them till they died. The Senate gave their sanction to the proceeding by rewarding with the citizenship a slave" of the name of Scaeva, who claimed the honor of having killed Saturninus. Marias had lost all influence in the state by allying himself with such unprincipled adventurers. In the following year (u.c. 99) he left Rome, in order that he might not witness the return of Metel- lus from exile, a measure which he had been unable to prevent. He set sail for Cappadocia and Galatia under the pretense of of- fering sacrifices which he had vowed to the Great Mother. He ha 1, however, a deeper purpose in visiting these countries. Find- ing that he was losing his popularity while the Republic was at peace, he was anxious to recover his lost ground by gaining fresh victoi'ies in war, and accordingly repaired to the court of Mithri- dates, in hopes of rousing him to attack the Romans. The mad scheme of Saturninus. and the discredit into which Marius had fallen, had given new strength to the Senate. They judged the opportunity favorable for depriving the Equites of the judicial power which they had enjoyed, with only a temporary ces- sation, since the time of C. Gracchus. The Equites had abused their power, as the Senate had done before them. They were the capitalists who farmed the public revenues in the provinces, where they committed peculation and extortion with habitual impunity. When accused, they were tried by accomplices and partisans. Their unjust condemnation of Rutilius Rufus had shown how unfit they were to be intrusted with judicial duties. Rutilius was a man of spotless integrity, and while acting as lieutenant to Q. Mucius Sc.uvola, Proconsul of Asia in u.c. 95, he displayed so much hon- esty and firmness in repressing the extortions of the farmers of the taxes, that he became an object of fear and hatred to the whole body. Accordingly, on his return to Rome, a charge of malversa- tion was trumped up against him, he was found guilty, and com- pelled to withdraw into banishment (u.c. 92). The following year (H.C. 91) witnessed the memorable Tribunate of M. Livius Drustis. He was the son of the celebrated opponent of C. Gracchus. He was a man of boundless activity and extraor- 17G HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXIV. dinary ability. Like his father, he was an advocate of the party of the Nobles. He took up arms against Saturninus, and support- ed the Senate in the dispute for the possession of the judicial pow- er. His election to the Tribunate was hailed by the Nobles with delight, and for a time he possessed their unlimited confidence. He gained over the people to the party of the Senate by various popular measures, such as the distribution of corn at a low price, and the establishment of colonies in Italy and Sicily. He was thus enabled to carry his measures for the reform of the judicia, which were, that the Senate should be increased from 300 to GOO by the addition of an equal number of Equites, and that the Judi- ces should be taken from the Senate thus doubled in numbers. Drusus seems to have been actuated by a single-minded desire to do justice to all, but the measure was acceptable to neither party. The Senators viewed with dislike the elevation to their own rank of 300 Equites, Avhile the Equites had no desire to transfer to a select few of their own order the profitable share in the adminis- tration of justice which they all enjoyed. Another measure of Drusus rendered him equally unpopular with the people. He had held out to the Latins and the Italian allies the promise of the Roman franchise. Some of the most eminent men of Rome had long been convinced of the necessity of this re- form. It had been meditated by the younger Scipio Africanus, and proposed by C. Gracchus. The Roman people, however, al- ways offered it the most violent opposition. But Drusus still had many partisans. The Italian allies looked up to him as their lead- er, and loudly demanded the rights which had been promised them. It was too late to retreat ; and, in order to oppose the formidable coalition against him, Drusus had recourse to sedition and conspir- acy. A secret society was formed, in which the members bound themselves by a solemn oath to have the same friends and foes with Drusus, and to obey all his commands. The ferment soon became so great that the public peace was more than once threat- ened. The Allies were ready to take up arms at the first move- ment. The Consuls, looking upon Drusus as a conspirator, re- solved to meet his plots by counterplots. But he knew his dan- ger, and whenever he went into the city kept a strong body-guard of attendants close to his person. The end could not much longer be postponed; and the civil war was on the point of breaking out, when one evening Drusus was assassinated in his own house, while dismissing the crowds who were attending him. A leather-cut- ter's knife was found sticking in his loins. Turning round to those who surrounded him, he asked them, as he was dying, " Friends B.C. 91. M. LIVIUS DRUSUS. 177 and neighbors, when will the Commonwealth have a citizen like me again?" Even in the lifetime of Drusus the Senate had repealed all his laws. After his death the Tribune Q. Varius brought forward a law declaring all per&ons guilty of high treason who had assisted the cause of the Allies. Many eminent men were condemned un- der this law. This measure, following the assassination of Drusus, roused the indignation of the Allies to the highest pitch. They clearly saw that the Roman people would yield nothing except upon compulsion. Bencventum in Sumniuni. M Coin of the Eight Italian Nations taking the Oath of Federation. CHAPTER XXV. THE SOCIAL OR. MARSIC AVAR. B.C. 90-89. ROME had never been exposed to greater danger than at this time. Those who had been her bravest defenders now rose against her; and she would probably have perished had the whole Italian people taken part in the war. But the insurrection was confined almost exclusively to the Sabellians and their kindred races. The Etruscans and Umbrians stood aloof, while the Sabines, Volsciaus, and other tribes who already possessed the Roman franchise, sup- ported the Republic, and furnished the materials of her armies. The nations which composed the formidable conspiracy against Rome were eight in number the Marsians, Pelignians, Marrucin- ians, Vestinians, Picentines, Samnites, Apulians, and Lucanians. Of these the Marsians were particularly distinguished for their courage and skill in war; and from the prominent part which they took in the struggle, it was frequently termed the Marsic as well as the Social War. The war broke out at Asculum in Picenum. The Proconsul Q. Servilius, who had the charge of this part of Italy, hearing that the inhabitants of Asculum were organizing a revolt, entered the town, and endeavored to persuade them to lay aside their hos. tile intentions. But he was murdered, together with his legate, by the exasperated citizens, and all the Romans in the place were likewise put to death. The insurrection now became general. The Allies entered upon the war with feelings of bitter hatred against their former rulers. They resolved to destroy Rome, and fixed upon Corfinium, a strong city of the Peligni, to which they gave the name of Italica, as the new capital of the Italian Confed- eration. The government of the new Republic was borrowed from that of Rome. It was to have two Consuls, twelve Praetors, and a Senate of 500 members. Q. Pompxdius Silo, a Marsian, one of B.C.90-SU. SOCIAL OR MARS1C WAR. 179 the chief instigators of the war, and C. Papius Mutilus, a Samnite, who cherished the hereditary hatred of his countrymen against the Romans, were chosen Consuls. Under them were many able lieu- tenants, who had learned the art of war under the best Roman generals. The soldiers had also served in the Roman armies, and wer-3 armed and disciplined in the same way, so that the contest partook of all the characters of a civil war. But the Romans had the great advantage which a single state always possesses over a confederation. Of the details of the war our information is meagre and imper- fect. But in the military operations we clearly see that the Allies formed two principal groups : the one composed of the Marsians, with their neighbors the Marrucinians, Pelignians,Vestinians, and Picentines ; the other of the Samnites, with the Lucanians and Apulians. The two Consuls, L. Julius Caesar and P. Rtitilius Lu- pus, took the field with powerful armies, and under them served Marius, Sulla, and the most experienced generals of the time. The Romans were fully aware of the formidable nature of the struggle, which was one for existence, and not for victory. In the first cam- paign the advantage was on the side of the Allies. The Samnites, under their Consul Papius, overran Campania, took most of the towns, and laid siege to Acerrde, into which Ca>sar threw himself. Pompasdius Silo was still more successful. He defeated the Ro- man Consul P. Rutilius Lupus with great slaughter, Rutilius him- self being slain in the battle. This disaster was to some extent repaired by Marius, who commanded a separate army in the neigh- borhood, and compelled the victorious Allies to retire. The old general then intrenched himself in a fortified cam]), and neither the stratagems nor the taunts of the Samnites could entice him from his advantageous position. " If you are a great general," said Pompaadius, "come down and fight;" to which the veteran re- plied, " Nay, do you, if you are a great general, compel me to fight against my will." The Romans considered that Marius was over- cautious and too slow ; and Plutarch says that his age and corpu- lence rendered him incapable of enduring the fatigue of very active service. But it is more probable that he was not very willing to destroy the Allies, who had been among his most active partisans, and to whom he still looked for support in his future struggles with the Nobility. The Romans now saw the necessity of making some concessions. The Lex Julia, proposed by the Consul Julius Caesar, granted the franchise to all the Latin colonies, and to those of the Allies who had remained faithful to Rome, or had laid down their arms. The effects of this concession were immediately seen. Several of the 180 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXV. Allies hastened to avail themselves of it, and disunion and distrust were produced among the rest. The next campaign (B.C. 89) was decidedly favorable to the Ro- mans. The Consuls were Cn.Pompeius Strabo, the father of the celebrated Triumvir, and L. Porcins C\ito. The latter, it is true, was slain at the commencement of the campaign ; but his loss was more than compensated by his lieutenant Sulla obtaining, in consequence, the supreme command. He carried on the war with the utmost vigor, and completely eclipsed his old commander Ma- rius. He drove the enemy out of Campania, subdued the Hirpini, and then penetrated into the very heart of Samnium. Here he de- feated Papius Mutilus, the Samnite Consul, and followed up his victory by the capture of the strong to\vn of Bovianuni. Meanwhile Pompeius Strabo had been equally successful in the north. Asculum was reduced after a long and obstinate siege. The Marrucinians,Vestinians, Pelignians, and finally the Marsians, laid down their arms before the end of the year. Their submis- sion was facilitated by the Lex Plautia Papiria. proposed by the Tribunes M. Plautius Silvanus and C. Papirius Carbo (B.C. 89), which completed the arrangements of the Lex Julia, and granted, in fact, every thing which the Allies had demanded before the war. All citizens of a town in alliance with Rome could obtain, by this law, the Roman franchise, provided they were at the time resident in Italy, and registered their names with the Praetor within sixty days.* The Avar was tlms virtually brought to a conclusion within two years, but 300,000 men, the flower of Rome and Italy, perished in this short time. The only nations remaining in arms were the Samnites and Lncanians, who still maintained a guerrilla warfare in their mountains, and continued to keep possession of the strong fortress of Nola, in Campania, from which all the efforts of Sulla failed to dislodge them. It now remained to be settled in what way the new citizens were to be incorporated in the Roman state. If they were enrolled in the thirty-five tribes, they would outnumber the old citizens. It was therefore resolved to form ten new tribes, which should consist of the new citizens exclusively ; but, before these arrangements could be completed, the Civil War broke out. * A law of the Consul Pompeius bestowed the Latin franchise upon all the cit- izens of the Gallic towns between the Po and the Alp?, so that they now entered into the same relations with Rome as the Latins had formerly held. CHAPTER XXVI. FIRST CIVIL WAR. B.C. 88-86. ONE reason which induced the Senate to bring the Social Wor to a conclusion was the necessity of attacking Mithridates, king of Pontus, one of the ablest monarchs with whom Rome ever came into contact. The origin and history of this war will be narrated in the following chapter. The dispute between Marius and Sulla for the command agamst Mithridates was the occasion of the first Civil War. The ability which Sulla had displayed in the Social War, and his well-known attachment to the Senatorial party, natu- rally marked him out as the man to whom this important dignity was to be granted. He was accordingly elected Consul for the year 88 K.C., with Q. Pompeius Rufus as his colleague ; and he forthwith received the command of the Mithridatic War. But 'Marius had long coveted this distinction; he quitted the magnifi- cent villa which he had built at Misenum, and took up his resi- dence at Rome ; and in order to show that neither his age nor his corpulency had destroyed his vigor, he repaired daily to the Cam- 182 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXVI pus Martius, and went through the usual exercises with the young men. He was determined not to yield without a struggle to hi=> hated rival. As he had formerly employed the Tribune Saturni- nu3 to carry out his designs, so now he found an able instrument for his purpose in the Tribune P. Sulpicius Ruftis. Sulpicius was one of the greatest orators of the age, and had acquired great influ- ence by his splendid talents-. He was an intimate friend of the Tribune M..Livius Drusus, and had been himself elected Tribune for B.C. 88,. through the influence of the Senatorial party, who placed great hopes in him ; but, being overwhelmed with debt, lie now sold himself to Marius, who promised him a liberal share of the spoils of the Mithridatic War. Accordingly, Sulpicius brought forward a law by which the Italians were to be distributed among, the thirty-five tribes. As they far outnumbered the old Roman citizens, they would have an overwhelming majority in each tribe, and would certainly confer upon Marius the command of the Mith- ridatic War. To prevent the Tribune from putting these roga- tions to the vote,, the Consuls declared a justitium, during Avhich no business, could be legally transacted. But Sulpicius was re- solved to carry his point ; with an armed band of followers he en- tered the forum and called upon the Consuls to withdraw the justi- tinm j and upon their refusal to comply with his demand he order- ed his satellites to draw their swords and fall upon them. Pom- peius escaped, but his son Qnintns, who was also the son-in-law of Sulla,, was killed. Sulla himself took refuge in the house of Ma- rius, which was close to the forum, and in order to save his life he was obliged to remove the-justitium. Sulla quitted Rome and hastened to his army, then besieging Nola, which was still held by the Samnitcs (see p. 180). The city- was now in the hands of Sulpicius and Marius, and the rogations passed into law without opposition, as well as a third, conferring upon Marius the command of the Mithridatic War. Marius losfc no time in sending some Tribunes to asstime on his behalf the command of the army at Nola; but the soldiers, who loved Sulla, and who feared that Marius might lead another army to Asia, and thus deprive them of their anticipated plunder, stoned his deputies to death. Sulla found his soldiers ready to respond to his wishes; they called upon him to lead them to Rome, and deliver the city from the tyrants. He therefore hesitated no longer, but at the head of six legions broke up from his encampment at Nola, and marched toward the city. His officers, however, refused to serve against their country, and all quitted him, with the exception of one Quasstor. This was the first time that a Roman had ever marched at the head of Roman troops against the city. Marina B.C. 88-80. FIRST CIVIL WAR 183 was taken by surprise. Such was the reverence that the Romans entertained for law, that it seems never to have occurred to him or to his party that Sulla would venture to draw Ids sword against the state. Marius attempted to gain time for preparations by for- bidding Sulla, in the name of the Republic, to advance any far- ther; but the Praetors who carried the command narrowly escaped being murdered by the soldiers; and Marias, as a last resource, offered liberty to the slaves who would join him. But it was all in vain. Sulla forced his way into the city, and Marius took to flight with his son and a few followers. Sulla used his victory with moderation. He protected the city from plunder; and only Marius, Snlpicius, and ten others of his bitterest enemies, were de- clared public enemies by the Senate. Sulpicins was betrayed by one of his slaves and put to death, but Marius and his son succeed- ed in making their escape. Marius himself embarked on board a ship at Ostia, with a few companions, and then sailed southward along the coast of Italy. At Circeii he and his companions were obliged to land on account of the violence of the wind and the want of provisions. After wandering about for a long time, they learned from some peasants that a number of horsemen had been in search of them ; and they accordingly turned aside from the road, and passed the night in a deep wood in great want. But the indomitable spirit of the old man did r.ot fail him ; and he consoled himself and encouraged his companions by the assurance that he should still live to see his seventh Consulship, in accord- ance with a prediction that had been made to him in his youth. Shortly afterward, when they were near to Minturnai, they de- scried a party of horsemen galloping toward them. In great haste they hurried down to the sea, and swam off to two merchant ves- sels, which received them on board. The horsemen bade the crew bring the ship to land or throw Marius overboard ; but, moved by his tears and entreaties, they refused to surrender him. The sailors soon changed their minds ; and, fearing to keep Marius, they cast anchor at the mouth of the Liris, where they persuaded him to disembark, and rest himself from his fatigues till a wind should rise; but they had no sooner landed him than they imme- diately sailed away. Marius was now quite alone amid the swamps and marshes through which the Liris Hows. With difficulty he reached the hut of an old man, who concealed him in a hole near the river, and covered him with reeds ; but hearing shortly after- ward the noise of his pursuers, he crept out of his hiding-place and threw himself into the marsh. He was discovered, and dragged out of the water; and, covered v>ith mud, and with a rope r< ,ni:d his neck, was delivered up to tho authorities of Minturnce. 'J he 184 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXVI. magistrates then deliberated whether they should comply with the instruction that had been sent from Rome to all the municipal towns to put Marius to death as soon as they found him. After some consultation they resolved to obey it, and sent a Cimbrian slave to carry out their orders. The room in which the old gen- eral was confined was dark; and, to the frightened barbarian, the eyes of Marius seemed to dart forth fire, and from the darkness a terrible voice shouted out, "Man! durst thou slay C. Marius?" The barbarian immediately threw down his sword, and rushed out of the house, exclaiming, "I can not kill C. Marius !" Straight- way there was a revulsion of feeling among the inhabitants of Minturme. They repented of their ungrateful conduct toward a man who had saved Rome and Italy. They got ready a ship for his departure, provided him with every thing necessary for the voyage, and, with prayers and wishes for his safety, placed him on board. The wind carried him to the island of -ZEnaria (now Is- chia), where he found the rest of his friends; and from thence he set sail for Africa, which he reached in safety. He landed near the site of Carthage, but he had scarcely put his foot on shore be- fore the Pnetor Sextilius sent an officer to bid him leave the coun- try, or else he would carry into execution the decree of the Senate. This last blow almost unmanned Marius : grief and indignation for a time deprived him of speech, and his only reply was, "Tell the Traitor that you have seen C. Marina a fugitive sitting on the ruins of Carthage." Shortly afterward Marius was joined by his son, and they crossed over to the island of Cercina, where they rem ined unmolested. Meantime a revolution had taken place at Rome, which prepared the way for the return of Marius to Italy. Sulla's soldiers were impatient for the plunder of Asia, and he therefore contented him- self \vith repealing the Sulpician laws. He then sent forward his legions to Capua, that they might be ready to embark for Greece, but he himself remained in Rome till the Consuls were elected for the following year. Tho candidates whom he recommended were rejected, and the choice fell on Cn. Octavius, who belonged to the aristocratical party, but was a weak and irresolute man, and on L. Cinna, a professed champion of the popular side. Sulla did not attempt to oppose their election : to have recalled his legions to Rome would have been a dangerous experiment when the soldiers were so eager for the spoils of the East ; and he only took the vain precaution of making Cinna promise that he would make no at- tempt to disturb the existing order of things. But as soon as Sulla had quitted Italy, Cinna brought forward again the law of Sulpic- ius for incorporating the new Italian citizens among the thirty-five B.C. 8G. MARIUS AND CINNA CONSULS 185 tribes. The two Consuls had recourse to arms, Octavius to oppose and Cinna to carry the law. A dreadful conflict took place in the forum. The party of Octavius obtained the victory, and China was driven out of the city with great slaughter. But Cinna, by means of the new citizens, whose cause he espoused, was soon at the head of a formidable army. As soon as Marius heard of these changes he set sail from Africa, and offered to serve under Cinna, who glad- lv accepted his proposal, and named him Proconsul ; but Marius re- fused Jill marks of honor. The sufferings and privations he had endured had exasperated his proud and haughty spirit almost to madne.-s, and nothing but the blood of his enemies could appease his resentment. He continued to wear a mean and humble dress, and his hair and beard had remained unshorn from the day he had been driven out of Home. After joining Cinna, Marius prosecuted the war with great vigor. He first captured the corn-ships, and thus cut off Rome from its usual supply of food. He next took Ostia and the other towns on the sea-coast, and, moving down the Tiber, encamped on the Janiculum. Famine began to rage in the eitv, and the Senate was obliged to yield. They sent a deputation to Ciniia and Marius, inviting them into the city, but entreating them to spare the citizens. Cinna received the deputies sitting in his chair of office, and gave them a kind answer. Marius stood in silence by the side of the Consul, but his actions spoke louder than words. After the audience was over they entered the city. The most frightful scenes followed. The Consul Octavius was slain while seated in his curule chair. The streets ran with the noblest blood of Rome. Every one whom Marius hated or feared was hunt- ed out and put to death ; and no consideration, either of rank, tal- ent, or former friendship, induced him to spare the victims of his vengeance. The great orator M. Antonius fell by the hands of his assassins ; and his former colleague, Q. Catulus, who had triumphed with him over the Cimbri, was obliged to put an end to his own life. Cinna was soon tired of the butchery ; but the appetite of Marius seemed only whetted by the slaughter, and daily required fresh vic- tims for its gratification. Without going through the form of an election, Marius and Cinna named themselves Consuls for the fol- lowing year (n.c. 80), and thus was fulfilled the prediction that Ma- rius should be seven times Consul. But he did not long enjoy the honor: he was now in his seventy-first year; his body was worn out by the fatigues and sufferings he had recently undergone ; and on the eighteenth day of his Consulship he died of an attack of pleurisy, after a few days' illness. Mount Argaeus in Cappadocia. CHAPTER XXVII. FIRST IMITIIRIDATIC WAR. 15. C. 88-84. THE kingdom of Pontus, which derived its name from being on the coast of the Pontus Enxinus, or Black Sea, was originally a sa- trapy of the Persian empire, extending from the River H;ilvs on the west to the frontiers of Colchis on the east. Even under the Liter Persian kings the rulers of Pontus were really independent, and in the wars of the successors of Alexander the Great it he- came a separate kingdom. Most of its kings bore the name of Mithridates; and the fifth monarch of this name formed an alli- ance with the Romans, and was rewarded with the province of Phrygia for the services he had rendered them in the war against Aristonicus. He was assassinated about B.C. 120, and was suc- ceeded by his son Mithridates VI., commonly called the Great, who was then onlv about twelve years of age. His youth was re- markable, but much that has been transmitted to us respecting this period of his life wears a very suspicious aspect; it is certain, how- 13. C. 88- 84. 1TRST MITHRIDATTC WAR. 187 ever, that when he attained to manhood he was not only endowed with consummate skill in all martial exercises, and possessed of a bodily frame inured to all hardships, but his naturally vigorous in- tellect had been improved by careful culture. As a boy he had been brought up at ISinopc, where he had probably received the el- ements of a Greek education, and so powerful was his memory that he is said to have learned not less than twenty-five languages, and to have been able in the days of his greatest power to transact busi- ness with the deputies of cvcrv tribe subject to his rule in their own peculiar dialect. As soon as he was firmly established on the throne he began to turn his arms against the neighboring nations. On the west his progress was hemmed in by the power of Rome, and the minor sovereigns of Bithynia and Cappadocia enjoyed the all-powerful protection of the Republic. But on the east his am- bition found free scope. He subdued the barbarian tribes between the Euxine and the confines of Armenia, including the whole of Colchis and the province called Lesser Armenia ; and he even added to his dominions the Tauric Chcrsonesus, now called the Crimea. The Greek kingdom of Bosphorus, which formed a por- tion of the Chersonesus, likewise submitted to his sway. More- over, he formed alliances with Tigranes, king of Armenia, to whom he gave his daughter Cleopatra in marriage, as well as with the warlike nations of the Parthians and Iberians. He thus found himself in possession of such great power and extensive resources, that he began to deem himself eqnal to a contest with Rome it- self. Many causes of dissension had already arisen between them. Shortly after his accession, the Romans had taken advantage of his minority to wrest from him the province of Phrygia. In B.C. 93 they resisted his attempt to place upon the throne of Cappadocia one of his own nephews, and appointed a Cappadocian named Ari- obarzanes to be king of that country. For a time Mithridates sub- mitted ; but the death of Nicomedes II., king of Bithynia, shortly afterward, at length brought matters to a crisis. That monarch was succeeded by his eldest son, Nicomedes III. ; but Mithridates took the opportunity to set up a rival claimant, whose pretensions he supported with an army, and quickly drove Nicomedes out of Bithynia (u.c. 90). About the same time he openly invaded Cap- padocia, and expelled Ariobarzanes from his kingdom, establishing his own son Ariarathes in his place. Both the fugitive princes had recourse to Rome, where they found ready support; a decree was passed that Nicomedes and Ariobarzanes should be restored to their respective kingdoms, and the execution of it was confided to M'. Aquillius and L. Cassius. Mithridates again yielded, and the two fugitive kings wcro re- 188 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXVII. stored to their dominions ; but no sooner was Nicomedes replaced on the throne of Bithynia than lie was urged by the Roman legates to invade the territories of Mithridates, into which he made a pred- atory incursion. Mithridates offered no resistance, but sent to the Romans to demand satisfaction, and it was not until his embassador was dismissed with an evasive answer that he prepared for imme- diate hostilities (B.C. 88). His first step was to invade Cappado- ia, from winch he easily expelled Ariobar/anes once more. His generals drove Nicomedes out of Bithynia, and defeated Aquillius. Mithridates, following up his advantage, not onlv made himself master of Phrygia and Galatia, but invaded the Roman province of Asia. Here the universal discontent of the inhabitants, caused by the oppression of the Roman governors, enabled him to overrun the whole province almost without opposition. The Roman offi- cers, who had imprudently brought this danger upon themselves, were unable to collect any forces to oppose his progress ; and Aquil- lius himself, the chief author of the war, fell into the hands of the King of Pontus. Mithridates took up his winter quarters at Per- gamus, where he issued the sanguinary order to all the cities of Asia to put to death on the same day all the Roman and Italian citizens who were to be found within their walls. So hateful had the Romans rendered themselves during the short period of their dominion, that these commands were obcved with alaciity by al most all the cities of Asia. Eighty thousand persons are said to have perished in this fearful massacre. The success of Mithridates encouraged the Athenians to declare against Rome, and the king accordingly sent his general Arche- laus with a large army and fleet into Greece. Most of the Gre- cian states now declared in favor of Mithridates. Such was the position of affairs when Sulla landed in Epirus in B.C. 87. He im- mediately marched southward, and laid siege to Athens and the Piraus. But for many months these towns resisted all his attacks. Athens was first taken in the spring of the following year ; and Ar- chelaus, despairing of defending the Pirasus any longer, withdrew into Boeotia, where he received some powerful re-enforcements from Mithridates. Pirreus now fell into the hands of Sulla, and both this place and Athens were treated with the utmost barbarity. The soldiers were indulged in indiscriminate slaughter and plun- der. Having thus wreaked his vengeance upon the unfortunate Athenians, Sulla directed his arms against Archelaus in Boeotia, and defeated him with enormous loss at Chseronea. Out of tho 110,000 men of which the Pontic army consisted, Archelaus assem- bled onlv 10,000 at Chalcis, in Eubcea, where he had taken refuge. Mithridates, on receiving news of this great disaster, immediately B.C. 88-84. FIRST MITHRIDATIC WAR. 189 pet about raising fresh troops, and was soon able to send another array of 80,000 men to Eubcea. But he now found himself threat- ened with clanger from a new and unexpected quarter. While Sul- la was still occupied in Greece, the party of Marius at Rome had sent a fresh army to Asia under the Consul L.Valerius Flaccus to carry on the war at once against their foreign and domestic ene- mies. Flaccus was murdered by his troops at the instigation of Fimbria, who now assumed the command, and gained several vic- tories over Mithridates and his generals in Asia (K.C. 85). About the same time the new army, which the king had sent to Arche- laus in Greece, was defeated by Sulla in the neighboihood of Or- chomenus. These repeated disasters made Mithridates anxious for peace, but it was not granted by Sulla till the following year (u.c. 84), when he had crossed the Hellespont in order to carry on the war in Asia. The terms of peace were definitely settled at an interview which the Roman general and the Fontic king had at Dardanus, in the Troad. Mithridates consented to abandon all his conquests in Asia, to restrict himself to the dominions which lie held before the commencement of the war, or pay a sum of 000 talents, and surrender to the Romans a fleet of seventy ships fully equipped. Thus terminated the First Mithridatic War. Sulla was now at liberty to turn his aims against Fimbm, who was with his army at Thyatira. The name of Sulla carried vic- tory with ir. The troops of Fimbria deserted their general, who put an end to his own life. Sulla now prepared to return to Italy. After exacting enormous sums from ihe wealthy cities of Asia, he left his legate, L. Licinius Murena, in command of that province, with two legions, and set sail with his o\\ n army to Athens. While preparing for his deadly struggle in Italy, he did not lose his inter- est in literature. He carried with him from Athens to Rome the valuable library of Apellrcon of Teos, which contained most of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus. C .in <>f Niccmedes III., king of Bithynia. Bronduelum. CHAPTER XXVIII. SECOND CIVIL WAR. SULLA'S DICTATORSHIP, LEGISLATION, AND DEATH. B.C. 83-78. SULLA landed at Brundusium in the spring of B.C. 83, in the Consulship of L. Scipio and C. Norbanus. During the preceding year he hacl written to the Senate, recounting the services he had rendered to the commonwealth, complaining of the ingratitude with which he had been treated, announcing his speedy return to Italy, and threatening to take vengeance upon his enemies and those of the Republic. The Senate, in alarm, sent an embassy to Sulla to endeavor to bring about a reconciliation between him and lis enemies, and menu time ordered the Consuls Cinna and Carbo to desist from levying troops and making farther preparations for war. Cinna and Carbo gave no heed to this command ; they knew that a reconciliation was impossible, and resolved to carry over an army to Dalmatia, in order to oppose Sulla in Greece; but, after one detachment of their troops had embarked, the rest of the sol- diers rose in mr.tiny, and murdered Cinna. The Marian party had th;is lost their chief leader, but continued nevertheless to make B.C. 83. SECOND CIVIL WAR. 191 every preparation to resist Sulla, for they were well aware that ho would never forgive them, and that their only choice lay between rictory and destruction. Besides this the Italians were ready to support them, as these new citizens feared that Sulla would de- prive them of the rights which they had lately obtained after so much bloodshed. The Marian party had every prospect of victory, for their troops far exceeded those of their opponent. They had 200,000 men in arms, while Sulla landed atBrundusium with only 30,000, or at the most 40,000 men. But, on the other hand, the popular party had no one of sufficient influence and military repu- tation to take the supreme command in the war ; their vast forces were scattered about Italy, in different armies, under different gen- erals; the soldiers had no confidence in their commanders, and no enthusiasm in their cause ; and the consequence was, that whole hosts of them deserted to Sulla on the first opportunity. Sulla's soldiers, on the contrary, were veterans, who had frequently fought by each other's sides, and had acquired that confidence in them- selves and in their general which frequent victories always give. Still, if the Italians had remained faithful to the cause of the Ma- rian party, Sulla would hardly have conquered, and therefore one of his first cares after landing at Brundusium was to detach them from his enemies. For this purpose he would not allow his troops to do any injury to the towns or fields of the Italians in his march from Brundusium through Calabria and Apulia, and he formed separate treaties with many of the Italian towns, by which he se- cured to them all the rights and privileges of Roman citizens which they then enjoyed. Among the Italians the Samnites continued to be the most formidable enemies of Sulla. They had joined the Marian party, not simply with the design of securing the suprem- acy for the latter, but with the hope of conquering Rome by their means, and then destroying forever their hated oppressor. Thus this Civil war became merely another phase of the Social war, and the struggle between Rome and Samnium for the supremacy of the peninsula was renewed after the subjection of the latter for more than two hundred years. Sulla marched from Apulia into Campania without meeting with any resistance. In Campania he gained his first victory over the Consul Xorbanus, who was defeated with great loss, and obliged to take refuge in Capua. His colleague Scipio, who was at no great distance, willingly accepted a truce which Sulla offered him, although Scrtorius, the ablest of the Marian generals, warned him against entering into any negotiations. His caution was justified by the event. By means of his emissaries Sulla seduced the troops of Scipio, who at length found himself deserted by all his soldiers, 192 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXVIII. and was taken prisoner in his tent. Sulla, however, dismissed him uninjured. On hearing of this, Carbo is said to have observed " that he had to contend in Sulla both with a, lion and a fox, but that the fox gave him more trouble." Many distinguished Romans mean- time had taken up arms on behalf of Sulla. Cn. Pompey, the son of Cn.Pompeius Strabo, then only twenty-three years of age, levied three legions in Picenum and the surrounding districts ; and Q. Metellus Pius, M. Crassus, M. Lucullus, and several others, offered their services as legates. It was not, however, till the following year (.c. 82) that the struggle was brought to a decisive issue. The Consuls of this year were Cn. Papirius Carbo and the younger Marias, the former of whom was intrusted with the protection of Etruria and Umbria, while the latter had to guard Rome and La- tium. Sulla appears to have passed the winter nt Campania. At the commencement cf spring he advanced against the younger Marius, who had concentrated all his forces at Sacriportus, and defeated him with great loss. Marius took refuge in Praenestc; and Sulla, after leaving Q. Lucretius Ofella with a large force to blockade the town, marched \\h\\ the main body of his army to Rome. Marius was resolved not to perish unavenged, and accord- ingly, before Sulla could reach Rome, he sent orders to L. Dama- sippus, the Pra'tor, to put to death all his leading opponents. His orders were faithfully obeyed. Q. Mucius Scaivola, the Pontifex Maximus and jurist, P. Antistius, L. Domitius, and many other dis- tinguished men, were butchered, and their corpses thrown into the Tiber. Sulla entered the city without opposition, and marched against Carbo, who had been previously opposed by Pompey and Metellus. The history of this part of the Avar is involved in great obscurity. Carbo made two efforts to relieve Praneste, but failed in each ; and, after fighting with various fortune against Pompey, Metellus, and Sulla, ho at length embarked for Africa, despairing of farther success in Italy. Meantime Rome had nearly fallen into the hands of the enemy. The Samnitcs and Lucanians, under Pontius Telesinus and L. Lamponius, after attempting to relieve Pnenestc, resolved to inarch straight upon Rome, which had been left without an army for its protection. Snlla arrived barely in timo to save the city. The battle was fought before the Collins Gate; it was long and obstinately contested; the combat was not simplv for the supremacy of a party; the very existence of Rome wa at stake, for Pontius had declared that he would raze the city to the ground. The left wing, where Sulla commanded in person, was driven off the field by the vehemence of the enemy's charge ; but the success of the right wing, which was commanded by Cras- BUS, enabled Sulla to restore the battle, and at length gain a com- B.C. 81. SULLA'S DICTATORSHIP. 103 pletc victory. Fifty thousand men are said to have fallen on each side. All the most distinguished leaders of the Marian party ei- ther perished in the engagement, or were taken prisoners and put to death. Among these was the brave Samnite Pontius, whose head was cut oft' and carried under the walls of Prseneste, thereby announcing to the young Marius that his last hope of succour was gone. To the Samnite prisoners Sulla showed no mercy. He was resolved to root out of the peninsula those heroic enemies of Home. On the third day after the battle he collected all the Sam- nite and Lucanian prisoners in the Campus Martius, and ordered his soldiers to cut them down. The dying shrieks of so many vic- tims frightened the Senators, who had been assembled at the same time by Sulla in the temple of Bellona ; but he bade them attend to what he was saying, and not mind what was taking place outside, as he was only chastising some rebels. Praeneste surrendered soon afterward. The Romans in the town were pardoned ; but all the Samnites and Prsenestines were massacred without mercy. The younger Marius put an end to his own life. The war in Italy was now virtually at an end, for the few towns which still held out had no prospect of offering any effectual opposition, and were reduced soon afterward. In other parts of the Roman world the war con- tinued still longer, and Sulla did not live to see its completion. The armies of the Marian party in Sicily and Africa were subdued by Pompey in the course of the same year; but Sertorius in Spain continued to defy all the attempts of the Senate till B.C. 72. Sulla was now master of Rome. He had not commenced the Civil war, but had been driven to it by the mad ambition of Ma- rius. His enemies had attempted to deprive him of the command in the Mithridatic war, which had been legally conferred uj.cn him by the Senate ; and while he was fighting the battles of the Rejiub- lic they had declared him a public enemy, confiscated his property, and murdered the most distinguished of his friends and adherents. For all these wrongs Sulla had threatened to take the most ample vengeance ; and he more than redeemed his word. He resolved to extirpate the popular party root and branch. One of his first acts was to draw up a list of his enemies who were to be put to death, which list was exhibited in the forum to public inspection, and called a Proscriptlo. It was the first instance of the kind in Ro- man history. All persons in this list were outlaws who might be killed by any one with impunity ; their property was confiscated to the state; their children and grandchildren lost their votes in the comitia, and were excluded from all public offices. Farther, all who killed a j>roscribed person, or indicated the place of his con- icalment, received two talents as a reward, and whoever sheltered N 194 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP.XXVIII &uch a person Avas punished with death. Terror now reigned not only at Rome, but throughout Italy. Fresh lists of the proscribed constantly appeared. No one was safe ; for Sulla gratified his friends by placing in the fatal lists their personal enemies, or per- sons whose property was coreted by his adherents. An estate, a house, or even a piece of plate, was to many a man, who belonged to no political party, his death-warrant ; for, although the confis- cated property belonged to the state, and had to be sold by public auction, the friends and dependents of Sulla purchased it at a nom- inal price, as no one dared to bid against them. Oftentimes Sul- la did not require the purchase-money to be paid at all, and in many cases he gave such property to his favorites without even the formality of a sale. The number of persons who perished by the proscriptions amounted to many thousands At the commence- ment of these horrors Sulla had been appointed Dictator. As both the Consuls had perished, he caused the Senate to elect Valerius Flaecus interrex, and the latter brought before the people a rogatio, conferring the Dictatorship upon Sulla, for the purpose of restoring order to the Republic, and for as long a time as he judged to be necessary. Thus the Dictatorship was revived after being in abey- ance for more than 120 years, and Sulla obtained absolute power over the lives and fortunes of all the citizens. This was toward the close of B.C. 81. Sulla's great object in being invested with the Dictatorship was to carry into execution in a legal manner the great reforms which he meditated in the constitution and the ad- ministration of justice, by which he hoped to place the government of the Republic on a firm and secure basis. He had no intention of abolishing the Republic, and consequently he caused Consuls to be elected for the following year, B.C. 81, and was elected to the office himself in B.C. 80, while he continued to hold the Dictator- ship. At the beginning of B.C. 81 Sulla celebrated a splendid triumph on account of his victory over Mithridates. In a speech which he. delivered to the people at the close of the gorgeous ceremony, he claimed for himself the surname of /-W/.r, as he attributed his suc- cess in life to the favor of the gods. All ranks in Rome bowed in awe before their master; and among other marks of distinction which were voted to him by the obsequious Senate, a gilt eques- trian statue was erected to his honor before the Rostra, bearing the inscription "Cornelio Stilltc Imperatori Felici." During the years B.C. 80 and 79 Sulla carried into execution his various reforms in the constitution, of which an account is given at the end of this chapter. At the same time he established many military colonies throughout Tta.lv. Tho inhabitant! of the Italian B.C. 80-79. SULLA'S REFORMS. 195 towns which had fought against Sulla were deprived of the full Ro man franchise which had been lately conferred upon them ; their lands were confiscated and given to the soldiers who had fought under him. A great number of these colonies were settled in Etruria. They had the strongest interest in upholding the institu- tions of Sulla, since any attempt to invalidate the latter would have endangered their newly-acquired possessions. But, though they tferc a support to the power of Sulla, they hastened the fall of the commonwealth; an idle and licentious soldiery supplanted an in- dustrious agricultural population ; and Catiline found nowhere more adherents than among the military colonies of Sulla. While Sulla thus established throughout Italy a population devoted to his inter- ests, he created at Rome a kind of body-guard for his protection by giving the citizenship to a great number of slaves belonging to those who had been proscribed by him. The slaves thus rewarded are said to have been as many as 10,000, and were called Cornelii after him JIB their patron. Sulla had completed his reforms by the beginning of n.c. 79; and as he longed for the undisturbed enjoyment of his pleasures, he resigned his Dictatorship, and declared himself ready to render an account of his conduct while in office. This voluntary abdica- tion by Sulla of the sovereignty of the Roman world has excited the astonishment and admiration of both ancient and modern writers. But it is evident that Sulla never contemplated, like Julius Casar, the establishment of a monarchical form of government; and it must be recollected that he could retire into a private station with- out any fear that attempts would be made against his life or his in- stitutions. The ten thousand Cornelii at Rome and his veterans stationed throughout Italy, as well as the whole strength of the aristocratical party, secured him against all danger. Even in his retirement his will was law, and shortly before his death he order- ed his slaves to strangle a magistrate of one of the towns in Italy because he was a public defaulter. After resigning his Dictatorship, Sulla retired to his estate at Puteoli, and there, surrounded by the beauties of nature and art, he passed the remainder of his life in those literary and sensual enjoyments in which he had always taken so much pleasure. He died in n.c. 78, in the sixtieth year of his age. The immediate cause of his death was the rupture of a blood-vessel, but some time before he had been suffering from the disgusting disease which is known in modern times by the name of Morbus Pediculosus. The Sen- ate, faithful to the last, resolved to give him the honor of a public funeral. This was, however, opposed by the Consul Lepidus, who had resulvftd to attempt the repeal of Sulla's laws ; but the Dicta- 196 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXVJIJL tor's power continued unshaken even after his death. The veter- ans were summoned from their colonies, and Q. Catulus, L. Lucul- lus, and Cn. Pompey placed themselves at their head. Lepidus was obliged to give way, and allowed the funeral to take place without interruption. It was a gorgeous pageant. The Magistrates, the Senate, the Equites, the Priests, and the Vestal virgins, as well as the veterans, accompanied the funeral procession to the Campus Martins, where the corpse was burnt according to the wish of Sulla himself, who feared that his enemies might insult his remains, as he had done those of Marius, which had been taken out of the grave and thrown into the Anio at his command. It had been previously the custom of the Cornelia gens to bury and not burn their dead. A monument was erected to Sulla in the Campus Martins, the in- scription on which he is said to have composed himself. It stated that none of his friends ever did him a kindness, and none of his enemies a wrong, without being fully repaid. All the reforms of Sulla were effected by means of Leges, which were proposed by him in the Comitia Centuriata, and bore the gen- eral name of Leges Cornelia*. They may be divided into four class- es : laws relating to the constitution, to the ecclesiastical corpora- tions, to the administration of justice, and to the improvement of public morals. Their general object and design Avas to restore, as far as possible, the ancient Roman Constitution, and to give again to the Senate and the Nobility that power of which they had been gradually deprived by the leaders of the popular party. His Con- stitution did not last, because the aristocracy were thoroughly self- ish and corrupt, and exercised the power which Sulla had intrusted' to them only for their own aggrandizement. Their shameless con- duct soon disgusted the provinces as well as the capital; the peo- ple again regained their power, but the consequence was an anarchy and not a government ; and as neither class was fit to rule, they were obliged to submit to the dominion of a single man. Thus the empire became a necessity to the exhausted Roman world. I. Laws relating to the Constitution. Sulla deprived the Comi- tia Tributa of their legislative and judicial powers ; but he allowed them to elect the Tribunes, JEdiles, Quwstors, and other inferior magistrates. This seems to have been the only purpose for which they were called together. The Comitia Centuriata, on the other hand, were allowed to retain their right of legislation unimpaired. He restored, however, the ancient regulation, which had fallen into desuetude, that no matter should be brought before them without the previous sanction of a senatus consultum. B.C. 80-79. SULLA'S LEGISLATION. 197 The Senate had been so much reduced in numbers by the pro- scriptions of Sulla, that lie was obliged to fill up the vacancies by the election of three hundred new members. But he made no al- teration in their duties and functions, as the whole administration of the state was in their hands ; and he gave them the initiative in legislation by requiring a previous senatus consultum respecting all measures that were to be submitted to the Comitia, as already stated. With respect to the magistrates, Sulla increased the number of Quasstors from eight to twenty, and of Praetors from six to eight. He renewed the old law that no one should hold the Prsetorship be- fore he had been Qusestor, nor the Consulship before he had been Praetor. He also renewed the law that no one should be elected to the same magistracy till after the expiration of ten years. One of the most important of Sulla's reforms related to the Trib- unate, which he deprived of all real power. He took away from the Tribunes the right of proposing a rogation of any kind to the Tribes, or of impeaching any person before them ; and he appears to have limited the right of intercession to their giving protection to private persons against the unjust decisions of magistrates, as, for instance, in the enlisting of soldiers. To degrade the Tribunate still lower, Sulla enacted that whoever had held this office forfeit- ed thereby all right to become a candidate for any of the higher curule offices, in order that all persons of rank, talent, and wealth might be deterred from holding an office which would be a fatal impediment to rising any higher in the state. He also required persons to be Senators before they could become Tribunes. II. Laics relating to the Ecclesiastical Corporations. Sulla re- pealed the Lex Domitia, which gave to the Comitia Tributa the right of electing the members of the great ecclesiastical corpora- tions, and restored to the latter tiie right of co-optatio, or self-elec- tion. At the same time, he increased the number of Pontiffs and Augurs to fifteen respectively. III. Laws relating to the Administration of Justice. Sulla estab- lished permanent courts for the trial of particular offenses, in each of which a Praetor presided. A precedent for this had been given by the Lex Calpurnia of the Tribune L. Calpurnius Piso, in B.C. 149, by whieli it was enacted that a Praetor should preside at sill trials for Kcpetundae during his year of office. This was called a Qiirt'stio I'crjicUici, and nine such Qixcstiones Perpetual were estab- lished by Sulla, namely, De Kcpetundis, Majestatis, De Sicariis ct Veneficis, De Parricidio, Peculatus, Ambitus, De Nummis Adulter- 198 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXVIII. inis, De Falsis or Testamentaria, and De Vi Publica. Jurisdic- tion in civil cases was left to the Praetor Peregrinus and the Prae- tor Urbanus as before, and the other six Prajtors presided in the Quaestiones; but as the latter were more in number than the Prae- tors, some of the Praetors took more than one Quacstio, or a Judex Questionis was appointed. The Praetors, after their election, had to draw lots for their several jurisdictions. Sulla enacted that the Judices should be taken exclusively from the Senators, and not from the Equitcs, the latter of whom had possessed this privilege, with a few interruptions, from the law of C. Gracchus, in B.C. 123. This was a great gain for the aristocracy, since the offenses for which they were usually brought to trial, such as bribery, malver- sation, and the like, were so commonly practiced by the whole or- der, that they were, in most cases, nearly certain of acquittal from men who required similar indulgence themselves. Sulla's reform in the criminal law, the greatest and most endur- ing part of his legislation, belongs to a history of Roman law, and can not be given here. IV. Laws relating to the Improvement of Public Morals. Of these we have very little information. One of them was a Lex Sumtuaria, which enacted that not more than a certain sum of money should be spent upon entertainments, and also restrained extravagance in funerals. There was likewise a law of Sulla re- specting marriage, the provisions of which are quite unknown, as it was probably abrogated by the Julian law of Augustus. (Join of Sulla. On the obverse is the hend of Sulla ; on the reverse that of Q. Porapeius Rufus, his colleague in his first Consulship. Cn. Pompeius Magnna. CHAPTER XXIX. FBOM TITS DEATH OF SULLA TO THE CONSULSHIP OF POMPEY AND CUASSUS. B.C. 78-70. SULLA was scarcely dead before an attempt was made to over- throw the aristocratic constitution which he had established. The Consul M. Lepidus had already, as we have seen, endeavored to prevent the burial of Sulla in the Campus Martius. He now pro- posed to repeal the Dictator's laws ; but the other Consul, Q. Cat- ulus, remained firm to the aristocracy, and offered the most stren- uous opposition to the measures of his colleague. Shortly after- ward the Senate ordered Lepidus to repair to Farther Gaul, which had been assigned to him as his Province ; but he availed himself of the opportunity to collect an army in Etruria, and at the begin- ning of the following year marched straight upon Rome. The Senate assembled an army, which they placed under the command of Q. Catulus, with Pompey as his lieutenant. A battle was fought near the Mulvian bridge, in which Lepidus was defeated, and, find- 200 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXIX. ing it impossible to maintain his footing in Italy, he sailed with the remainder of his forces to Sardinia, where he died soon after- ward. Meantime the remainder of the Marian party found refuge in Spain. Q. Sertorius, one of the ablest of their generals, had re- ceived the government of this country in the year B.C. 82. He soon acquired an extraordinary ascendency over the minds of the natives, and flattered them with the hope of establishing an inde- pendent state which might bid defiance to Home. His influence was enhanced by the superstition of the people. He was accom- panied on all occasions by a tame fawn, which they believed to be a familiar spirit. So attached did they become to his person, that he found no difficulty in collecting a formidable army, which for some years successfully opposed all the power of Rome. After de- feating several generals whom Sulla had sent against him, ho had to encounter, in B.C. 79, Q. Metellus, who had been Consul the pre- vious year with Sulla. But Metellus did not fare much better than his predecessors ; and in B.C. 78 Sertorius was re-enforced by a considerable body of troops which Perperna carried with him into Spain after the defeat of Lepidus. The growing power of Sertorius led the Senate to send Pompey to the assistance of Me- tellus. Pompey, though only 30 years of age, was already regard- ed as the ablest general of the Republic ; and as he played such a prominent part in the later history, we may here pause to give a brief account of his early career. POMPEY was born B.C. 10G, and was, as we have already seen, the son of Cn. Pompeius Strabo, who fought against the Italians in his Consulship, B.C. 89. The young Pompey served under his fa- ther in this war, when lie was only 17 years of age, and continued with him till his death two years afterward. He was present at the battle of the Colline Gate in B.C. 87, and shortly afterward he saved the life of his father, and quelled an insurrection of the sol- diers by his courage and activity. As soon as Sulla had finished the Mithridatic war, and was on his way to Italy, Pompey, instead of waiting, like the other leaders of the aristocracy, for the arrival of their chief, resolved to share with him the glory of crushing the Marian party. Accordingly, he proceeded to levy troops in Pice- num without holding any public office ; and such was his personal influence that he was able to raise an army of three legions. Be- fore joining Sulla he gained a brilliant victory over the Marian generals, and was received by Sulla with the greatest distinction. Upon the conclusion of the war in Italy Pompcv was sent first into Siciiv, and afterward into Africa, where the Marian party still held out. His success was rapid and decisive. In a few months he B.C. 7G. POMPEY IN SPAIN. 201 reduced the whole of Nnmidia, and, unlike other Roman governors, abstained from plundering the province. His military achieve- ments and his incorruptibility procured him the greatest renown, and lie returned to Rome covered with glory (B.C. 80). Numbers flocked out of the city to meet him ; and the Dictator himself, who formed one of the crowd, greeted him with the surname of MAG- NUS or the GREAT, which he bore ever afterward. Sulla at first refused to let him triumph. Hitherto no one but a Dictator, Con- sul, or Praetor had enjoyed this distinction ; but as Pompey insist- ed upon the honor, Sulla gave way, and the young general entered Home in triumph as a simple Eques, and before he had completed his 25th year. Pompey again exhibited his power in promoting, in B.C. 79, the election of M. ^milius Lepidus to the Consulship, in opposition to the wishes of Sulla. The latter had now retired from public af- fairs, and contented himself with warning Pompey, as he met him returning from the comitia in triumph," Young man, it is time for you not to slumber, for you have strengthened your rival against yourself." Lepidus seems to have reckoned upon the support of Pompey ; but in this he was disappointed, for Pompey remained faithful to the aristocracy, and thus saved his party. He fought at the Mulvian bridge against Lepidus, as we have already related, and afterward marched into Cisalpine Gaul against the remains of his party. The Senate, who now began to dread Pompey, ordered him to disband his army ; but he found various excuses for evad- ing this command, as he was anxious to obtain the command of the war against Sertorius in Spain. They hesitated, however, to give him this opportunity for gaining fresh distinction and additional power ; and it was only in consequence of the increasing power of Sertorius that they at length unwillingly determined to send Pom- pey to Spain, with the title of Proconsul, and with powers equal to Metellus. Pompey arrived in Spain in B.C. 76. He soon found that he had a more formidable enemy to deal with than anv he had yet encoun- tered. He suffered several defeats, and, though he gained some advantages, yet such were his losses that at the end of two years he was obliged 1.0 send to Rome for re-enforcements. The war continued three years longer ; but Sertorius, who had lost some of his influence over the Spanish tribes, and who had become an ob- ject of jealousy to M. Perperna and his principal Roman officers, was unable to carry on operations with the same vigor as during the two preceding years. Pompey accordingly gained some ad- vantages over him, but the war was still far from a close ; and the genius of Serforius would probably have soon given a very differ- 202 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXIX. ent aspect to affairs had he not been assassinated by Perperna in B.C. 72. Perperna had flattered himself that he should succeed to the power of Sertorius ; but he soon found that he had murdered the only man who was able to save him from ruin. In his first battle with Pornpey he was completely defeated, his principal offi- cers slain, and himself taken prisoner. Anxious to save his life, he offered to deliver up to Poinpey the papers of Sertorius, contain- ng letters from many c-f the leading men at Rome. But Pompey refused to see him, and commanded the letters to be burnt. The war was now virtually at an end, and the remainder of the year was employed in subduing the towns which still held out against Poinpey. Metellus had taken no part in the final struggle with Perperna, and Pompey thus obtained the credit of bringing the war to a conclusion. The people longed for his return, that he might deliver Italy from Spartacus and his horde of gladiators, who had defeated the Consuls, and were in possession of a great part L( the peninsula. A righteous retribution had overtaken the Romans for their love of the cruel sports of the amphitheatre. The gladiators Avere gen- erally prisoners taken in war, and sold to persons who trained tliem in schools for the Roman games. There was such a school at Capua, and among the gladiators was a Thracian of the name of Spartacus, originally a chief of banditti, who had been taken pris- oner by the Romans, and was now destined to be butchered for their amusement. Having prevailed upon about 70 of his com- rades, he burst out of the school with them, succeeded in obtaining arms, and took refuge in the crater of Vesuvius, at that time an ex- tinct volcano (B.C. 73). Here he was soon joined by large numbers of slaves, who flocked to him from all quarters. lie was soon at the head of a formidable army. The desolation of the Social and Civil Wars had depopulated Italy, while the employment of slave- labor furnished Spartacus with an endless supply of soldiers. In addition to this, the war with Sertorius was not yet finished, and i lift with Mithridates, of which we shall speak presently, had al- ready commenced. For upward of two years Spartacus was mas- ter of Italy, which he laid waste from the foot of the Alps to the southernmost corner of the peninsula. In n.c. 72 he found him- self at the head of 1CO,00() men, and defeated both Consuls. As the Consuls of the following year had no military reputation, the conduct of the war was intrusted to the Praetor, M. Licinius Cras- sus, who had greatly distinguished himself in the wars of Sulla. He had been rewarded by the Dictator with donations of confiscated property, and had accumulated an immense fortune. Six legions were now given him in addition to the remains of the Consular B.C. 70. POMPEY AND CRASSUS CONSULS. 203 armies already in the field. The Roman troops were disheartened and disorganized by defeat, but Crassus restored discipline by deci- mating tho soldiers. Spartacus was driven to the extreme point of Bruttium. Crassus drew strong lines of circumvallation around Rhegium, and by his superior numbers prevented the escape of the slaves. Spartacus now attempted to pass over to Sicily, where he would have been welcomed by thousands of followers. He failed in the attempt to cross the straits, but at length succeeded in forc- ing his way through the lines of Crassus. The Roman general hastened in pursuit, and in Lucania fell in with the main body of tli3 fugitives. A desperate battle ensued, in which Spartacus per- ished, with the greater part of his followers. About GOOO were taken prisoners, whom Crassus impaled on each side of the Appian road between Rome and Capua. A body of 5000 made their way northward, Avhom Pompey met as he was returning from Spain, and cut to pieces. Crassus had, in reality, brought the war to an end, but Pompey took the credit to himself, and wrote to the Sen- ate, saying, "Crassus, indeed, lias defeated the enemy, but I have extirpated them by the roots." Pompey and Crassus now approached the city at the head of their armies, and each laid claim to the Consulship. Neither of them was qualified by the laws of Sulla. Pompey was only in his 3,")th year, and had not even held the office of Qua3stor. Crassus was still Praetor, and two years ought to elapse before he could be- come Consul. Pompey, however, agreed to support the claims of Crassus, and the Senate dared not offer open opposition to two generals at the head of powerful armies. Pompey, moreover, de- clared himself the advocate of the popular rights, and promised to restore the Tribunitian power. Accordingly, they were elected Consuls for the following year. Pompey entered the city in tri- umph on the 31st of December, B.C. 71, and Crassus enjoyed the honor of an ovation. The Consulship of Pompey and Crassus (B.C. 70) was memora% ble for the repeal of the most important portions of Sulla's consti- tutional reforms. One of Pompey's first acts was to redeem the pledge he had given to the people, by bringing forward a law for the restoration of the Tribunitian power. The law was passed with little opposition ; for the Senate felt that it was worse than useless to contend against Pompey, supported as he was by the pop- ular enthusiasm and by his troops, which were still in the immedi- ate neighborhood of the city. He also struck another blow at the aristocracy. By one of Sulla's laws, the Judices, during the last ten years, had been chosen from the Senate. The corruption and venality of the latter in the administration of justice had excited 204 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXIX. such general indignation that some change was clamorously de- manded by the people. Accordingly, the Praetor L. Aurelius Cot- ta, with the approbation of Pompey, proposed a law by which the Judices were to be taken in future from the Senate, Equites, and Tribuni JErarii, the latter probably representing the wealthier mem- bers of the third order in the state. This law Avas likewise car- ried ; but it did not improve the purity of the administration of justice, since corruption was not confined to the Senators, but per- vaded all classes of the community alike. Pompey had thus bro- ken witli the aristocracy, and had become the great popular hero. In carrying botli these measures he was strongly supported by Cay sar, who, though he was rapidly rising in popular favor, could a? yet only hope to weaken the power of the aristocracy through Porr pey's means. Temple of Pudicitia Patricia at Rome. Coin of Mithridates. CHAPTER XXX. THIRD OR GREAT MITHRIDATIC WAR. B.C. 74-61, WHEN Sulla returned to Italy after the First Mithridatic War 7 he left L. Murena, with two legions, to hold the command in Asia. Murcna, who was eager for some opportunity of earning the honor of a triumph, pretending that Mithridates had not yet evacuated the whole of Cappadocia, not only marched into that country, but even crossed the Hal} s, and laid waste the plains of Pontus itself (B.C. 83). To this flagrant breach of the treaty so lately concluded the Roman general was in great measure instigated by Archclaus, who, finding himself regarded with suspicion by Mithridates, had consulted his safety by flight, and was received with the utmost honors by the Romans. Mithridates, who was wholly unprepared to renew the contest with Rome, offered no opposition to the prog- ress of Murena ; but finding that general disregard his remon- strances, he sent to Rome to complain of his aggression. When, in the following spring (B.C. 82). he saw Murcna preparing to re- new his hostile incursions, he at once determined to oppose him by force, and assembled a large army, witli which he met the Roman general on the banks of the Halys. The action that ensued term- inated in the complete victory of the king, and Murena, with dif- ficulty, effected his retreat into Phrygia, leaving Cappadocia at the mercy of Mithridates, who quickly overran the whole province. Shortly afterward A. Gabinius arrived in Asia, bringing perempto- ry orders from Sulla to Murena to desist from hostilities, where- upon Mithridates once more consented to evacuate Cappadocia. Thus ended what is commonly called the Second Mithridatic War. Notwithstanding the interposition of Sulla, Mithridates was well aware that the peace between him and Rome was in fact only sus- 206 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXX. pension of hostilities, and that the haughty Republic would never suffer the massacre of her citizens in Asia to remain ultimately .un- punished. Hence all his efforts were directed toward the forma- tion of an army capable of contending, not only in 71 umbers, but in discipline, with those of Rome; and with this view he armed his barbarian troops after the Roman fashion, and endeavored to train them up in that discipline of which he had so strongly felt the ef- fect in the preceding contest. In these attempts he was doubtless assisted by the refugees of the Marian party, who had accompanied Fimbria into Asia, and on the defeat of that general by Sulla had taken refuge with the King of Pont us. At their instigation, also, Mithridates sent an embassy to Sertorius, who was still maintaining his ground in Spain, and concluded an alliance with him against their common enemies. But it was the death of Nicomedes III., king of Bithynia, at the beginning of B.C. 74, that brought matters to a crisis, and became the immediate occasion of the war which both parties had long felt to be inevitable. That monarch left his dominions by will to the Roman people, and Bithynia was accord- ingly declared a Roman province ; but Mithridates asserted that the late king had left a legitimate son by his \vifc Nysa, whose pre- tensions he immediately prepared to support by his arms. The forces with which Mithridates was now prepared to take the field were such as might inspire him with no unreasonable con- fidence of victory. He had assembled an army of 120,000 foot- soldiers, armed and disciplined in the Roman manner, and 1C, 000 horse, besides a hundred scythed chariots. His fleet, also, was so far superior to any that the Romans could oppose to him as to give him the almost undisputed command of the sea. These prep- arations, however, appear to have delayed him so long that the season was far advanced before he was able to take the field, and both the Roman Consuls, L. Licinius Lucullus and M. Aurelius Cotta, had arrived in Asia. Neither of them, however, was able to oppose his first irruption. lie traversed almost the whole of Bi- thynia without encountering any resistance ; and when at length Cotta ventured to give him battle under the walls of Chalcedon, his army and fleet were totally defeated. Mithridates now proceeded to lay siege to Cyzicus both by sea and land. But Lucullus, who had advanced from Phrygia to the relief of Cotta, and followed Mithridates to Cyzicus, took possession of an advantageous posi- tion near the camp of the king, where he almost entirely cut him off from receiving supplies by land, while the storms of the winter prevented him from depending on those by sea. Hence it was not long before famine began to make itself felt in the camp of Mith- ridates, and all his assaults upon the city having been foiled by the B.C. 74-61. THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAR. 207 courage and resolution of the besieged, he was at length compelled (early in the year u.c. 73) to abandon the enterprise and raise the siege. In his retreat lie was repeatedly attacked by the Roman general, and suffered very heavy loss at the passage of the JKsepus and Granicus. By the close of the year the great army with which he had commenced the war was annihilated, and he was not only compelled to retire within his own dominions, but was without the means of opposing the advance of Lucullus into the heart of l j on- tus itself. But he now again set to work with indefatigable activ- ity to raise a fresh army ; and while he left Che whole ol the sea- coast of Pontus open to the invaders, he established himself in the interior at Cabira. Here he was again defeated by Luculius ; and despairing of opposing the farther progress of the Romans, he fled into Armenia to claim the protection and assistance of his son-iu- Jaw Tigranes. Coin of Tigranes. Tigranes was at this moment the most powerful monarch of Asia, but he appears to have been unwilling to engage openly in war with Rome ; and on this account, while he received the fugi- tive monarch in a friendly manner, he refused to admit him to his presence, and showed no disposition to attempt his restoration. But the arrogance of the Romans brought about a change in his policy; and Tigranes, offended at the haughty conduct of Appius Claudius, whom Lucullus had sent to demand the surrender of Mithridates, not only refused this request, but determined at once to prepare for war. While Lucullus was waiting for the return of Claudius, he de- voted his attention to the settlement of the affairs of Asia, which was suffering severely from the oppressions of the farmers of the public taxes. By various judicious regulations he put a stop to their exactions, and earned the gratitude of the cities of Asia; but at the same time ho, brought upon himself the enmity of the Ki|uitcs, who were the fanners of the revenue. They were loud 208 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XX\ r . against him in their complaints at Rome, and by their continued clamors undoubtedly prepared the way for his ultimate recall. Meanwhile community of interests between Mithridatcs and Ti- granes had led to a complete reconciliation between them, and the Pontic king, who had spent a year and eight months in the domin- ions of his son-in-l;i\v without being admitted to a personal inter view, was now made to participate in all the councils of Tigrancs, and appointed to levy an army to unite in the war. But it was in vain that in the ensuing campaign (B.C. 69) he urged upon his sen- in-law the lessons of his own experience, and advised him to shun a regular action with Lucullus : Tigranes, confident in the multi- tude of his forces, gave battle at Tigranocerta, and was defeated, before Mithridates had been able to join him. But this disaster, so precisely in accordance with the warnings of Mithridates, served to raise the latter so high in the estimation of Tigranes, that from this time forward the whole conduct of the war was intrusted to the direction of the King of Pontus. In the following summer (B.C. 68) Lucullus crossed the Taurus, penetrated into the heart of Armenia, and again defeated the allied monarchs near the city of Artaxata. But the early severity of the season, and the discontent of his own troops, checked the farther advance of the Roman general, who turned aside into Mesopota- mia. Here Mithridates left him to lay siege to the fortress of Ni- sibis, which was supposed to be impregnable, while he himself took advantage of his absence to invade Pontus at the head of a large army, and endeavor to regain possession of his former dominions. The defense of Pontus was confided to Fabius, one of the lieuten- ants of Lucullus ; but the oppression of the Romans had excited a general spirit of disaffection, and the people crowded around the standard of Mithridates. Fabius was totally defeated, and com- pelled to shut himself up in the fortress of Cabira. In the follow- ing spring (B.C. 67), Triarius, another of the Roman generals, was also defeated with immense loss. The blow was one of the sever- est which the Roman arms had sustained for a long period: 7000 of their troops fell, among whom were an unprecedented number of officers, and their camp itself was taken. The advance of Lucullus himself from Mesopotamia prevented Mithridates from following up his advantage, and he withdrew into Lesser Armenia, where he took up a strong position to await the approach of Tigranes. But the farther proceedings of Lucullus were paralyzed by the mutinous and disaffected spirit of his own soldiers. Their discontents were fostered by P. Clodius, whose tur- bulent and restless spirit already showed itself in its full force, and were encouraged by reports from Rome, where the demagogues B.C. GO. POMPEY SUPERSEDES LUCULLUS. 201) who were favorable to Pompcy, or had been gnined over by the Equestrian party, were loud in their clamors against Lucullus. They accused him of protracting the war for his own personal ob- jects, either of ambition or avarice ; and the soldiery, whose appe- tite for plunder had been often checked by Lucullus, readily joined in the outcry. Accordingly, on the arrival of Tignincs, the two monarchs found themselves able to overrun almost the whole of Pontus and Cappadocia \\ithout opposition. Such was the state of affairs when ten legates arrived in Asia to reduce Pontus to the form of a Roman province, and they l.ad, in consequence, to report to the Senate that the country supposed to be conquered was again in the hands of the enemy. The ad- versaries of Lucullus naturally availed themselves of so favorable an occasion, and a decree was passed transferring to M. Acilius Glabrio, one of the Consuls for the year, the province of Bithynia, and the command against Mithridatcs. But Glabrio was wholly incompetent for the task assigned to him. On arriving in Bithynia he made no attempt to assume the command, but remained within the confines of his province, while he still farther embarrassed the position of Lucullus by issuing proclamations to his soldiers, an- nouncing to them that their general was superseded, and releasing them from their obedience. Before the close of the year (B.C. 67) Lucullus had the mortification of seeing Mithridates established once more in the possession of his hereditary dominions. But it was still more galling to his feelings when, in the spring of the fol- lowing year (B.C. GO), he was called upon to resign the command to Pompcy, who had just brought to a successful termination the war against the pirates. The Mediterranean Sea had long been swarming with pirates. From the earliest times piracy has more or less prevailed in this sea, which, lying between three continents, and abounding with numerous creeks and islands, presents at the same time both the greatest temptations and the greatest facilities for piratical pur- suits. Moreover, in consequence of the Social and Civil wars, and the absence of any fleet to preserve order upon the sea, piracy had reached an alarming height. The pirates possessed fleets in all parts of the Mediterranean, were in the habit of plundering the most wealthy cities on the coasts, and had at length carried their audacity so far as to make descents upon the Appian Road, and carry off Roman magistrates, with their lictors. All communica- tion between Rome and the provinces was cut off, or at least ren- dered extremely dangerous ; the fleets of corn-vessels, upon which Rome to a great extent depended for its subsistence, could not reach the city, and the price of provisions in consequence rose enor- O 210 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXX. mously. Such a state of things had become intolerable, and sill eyes were now directed to Pompey. At the beginning of K.C. G7 the Tribune A. Gabinius brought forward a bill which was intend- ed to give Pompey almost absolute authority over the greater part of the Roman world. It proposed that the people should elect a man with consular rank, who should possess unlimited power for three years over the whole of the Mediterranean, a fleet of 200 ships, with as many soldiers and sailors as he thought necessary > and GOOO Attic talents. The bill did not name Pompey, but it \vai clear who was meant. The aristocracy were in the utmost alarm, and in the Senate Caesar was almost the only person who came for* ward in its support. Party spirit ran to such a height that the most serious riots ensued. Even Pompey himself was threatened by the Consul, "If you emulate Romulus, you will not escape the end of Romulus." Q. Catulus and Q. Hortensius spoke against the bill with great eloquence, but with no effect. On the day that the bill was passed the price of provisions at Rome immediately fell, a fact which showed the immense confidence which all parties placed in the military abilities of Pompey. Pompey's plans were formed with great skill, and were crowned with complete success. He stationed his lieutenants with different squadrons in various parts of the Mediterranean to prevent the pi- rates from uniting, and to hunt them out of the various bays and creeks in which they concealed themselves ; while, at the same time, he swept the middle of the sea with the main body of his fleet, and chased them eastward. In forty days he drove the pirates out of the western seas, and restored communication between Spain, Africa, and Italy. After then remaining a short time in Italy, he sailed from Brtmdnsium, cleared the seas as he went along, and forced the pirates to the Cilician coast. Here the decisive action was fought ; the pirates were defeated, and more than 20,000 pris- oners fell into his hands. Those on whom most reliance conld be placed were distributed among the small and depopulated cities of Cilicia, and a large number were settled at Soli, which was hence- forward called Pompciopolis. The second part of this campaign occupied only forty-nine days, and the whole war was brought tc a conclusion in the course of three months. Pompey remained ip Cilicia during the remainder of this year and the beginning of the one following. Meantime the Tribune C. Manilius brought for- ward a bill (n.c. 6G) giving to Pompey the command of the waf against Mithridates, with imlimited power over the army and the fleet in the East, and with the rights of a Proconsul in the whole of Asia as far as Armenia. As his Proconsular power already ex- tended over all the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean in vir- B.C. GG. POMPEY DEFEATS MITHRIDATES. 21 1 tue of the Gabinian law, this new measure virtually placed almost the whole of the Koman dominions in his hands. But there was no power, however excessive, which the people were not ready to intrust to their favorite hero ; and the hill was accordingly passed, notwithstanding the opposition of Hortensius, Catulus, and the ar- istocratical party. Cicero advocated the measure in an oration which has come down to us {Pro Lcye Afcfoitia), and Caesar like- wise supported it with his growing popularity and influence. On receiving intelligence of this new appointment, Pompey im- mediately crossed the Taurus, and took the command of the army from Lucullus. The power of Mithridates had been broken by the previous vic- tories of Lucullus, and the successes which the king had gained lately were only of a temporary nature, mainly owing to the disor- ganization of the Roman army. In the plan of the campaign Pom- pey displayed great military skill. One of his first measures was to secure the alliance of the Parthian king, which not only deprived Mithridates of all hopes of succor from that quarter, but likewise cut him off from all assistance from the Armenian king Tigranes, who was now obliged to look to the safety of his own dominions. Pompey next stationed his fleet in different squadrons along the coasts of Asia Minor, in order to deprive Mithridates of all commu- nication from the sea, and he then proceeded in person at the head of his land-forces against the king. Thus thrown back uj on his own resources, Mithridates sued for peace, but, as Pompey would hear of nothing but unqualified submission, the negotiation was broken off. The king was still at the head of 30,000 foot nnd 2000 horse ; but he knew too well the strength of a lloman army to ven- ture an engagement with these forces, and accordingly withdrew gradually to the frontiers of Armenia. For a long time he suc- ceeded in avoiding a battle, but he was at length surprised by Pom- pey in Lesser Armenia, as he was marching through a narrow pass. The battle was soon decided ; the king lost the greater number of his troops, and escaped with only a few horsemen to the fortress of Synorium, on the borders of the Greater Armenia. Here he again collected a considerable force ; but as Tigranes refused to admit him into his dominions, because he suspected him of fomenting the intrigues of his son against him, Mithridates had no alternate but to take refuge in his own distant dominions in the Cimmerian Bos- porus. To reach them he had to march through Colchis, and to fight his way through the wild and barbarous tribes that occupied the country between the Caucasus and the Euxine. He succeed- ed, however, in this arduous enterprise, and reached the Bosporus in safety in the course of next year. Pompey abandoned at pres- 212 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAJ*. XXX. ent all thoughts of following the fugitive king, and resolved at once to attack Tigranes, who was now the more formidable of the two monarchs. On entering Armenia Pompey met with no opposition. He was joined by the young Tigranes, who had revolted against his fa- ther, and all the cities submitted to them on their approach. When the Romans drew near to Artaxata, the king, deserted by his army and his court, went out to meet Pompey, and threw himself before him as a suppliant. Pompey received him with kindness, acknowl- edged him as King of Armenia, and demanded only the payment of 6000 talents. His foreign possessions, however, in Syria, Phoe- nicia, Cilicia, Galatia, and Cappadocia, which had been conquered by Lucullus, were to belong to the Romans. To his son Tigranes, Sophene and Gordyene were given as an independent kingdom ; "but as the young prince was discontented with this arrangement, and even ventured to utter threats, Pompey had him arrested, and kept him in chains to grace his triumph. After thus settling the affnirs of Armenia, Pompey proceeded northward in pursuit of Mithridates. But the season was so far advanced that he took up his winter quarters on the banks of the River Cyrus. Early in the spring (B.C. 65) he resumed his march northward, and advanced as far as the River Phasis, but, obtaining here more certain information of the movements of Mithridates, and of the wild and inaccessible nature of the country through which he would have to march in order to reach the king, he re- traced his steps, and led his troops into winter quarters at Amisus, on the Euxine. He now reduced Pontus to the form of a Roman province. In B.C. 64 Pompey marched into Syria, where he deposed An- tioclins Asiaticus, and made the country a Roman province. He likewise compelled the neighboring princes, who had established independent kingdoms on the ruins of the Syrian empire, to sub- mit to the Roman dominion. The whole of this year was occupied with the settlement of Syria and the adjacent countries. Next year (B.C. 63) Pompey advanced farther south, in order to astablish the Roman supremacy in Phoenicia, Coele-Syria, and Pal istine. The latter country was at this time distracted by a civi war between Hyrcanus and Aristobulus. Pompey espoused the side of Hyrcanus, and Aristobulus surrendered himself to Pompey when the latter had advanced near to Jerusalem. But the Jews refused to follow the example of their king, and it was not till aft- er a siege of three months that the city was taken. Pompey en tered the Holy of Holies, the first time that any human being, ex.- Cept the hi-h-priest, had penetrated into this sacred spot. He re- B.C.G3. DEATH OF MITHRIDATES. 213 instated Hyrcanus in the high-priesthood, but compelled him to pay an annual tribute to Rome; Aristobulus accompanied him as a prisoner. It was during this war in Palestine that Pompey re- ceived intelligence of the death of Mithridates. During the last two years Mithridates had been making the most extensive preparations for a renewal of the contest. He had conceived the daring project of marching round the north and west coasts of the Euxine, and penetrating even into Italy. \A 7 ith these views, he was busily engaged in assembling such a fleet and army as would be sufficient for an enterprise of this magnitude ; but his proceedings were delayed by a long and painful illness, which in- capacitated him fur any personal exertion. At length, however, his preparations were completed, and he found himself at the head of an army of 36,000 men and a considerable fleet. But during his illness disaffection had made rapid progress among his follow- ers. The full extent of his schemes was probably communicated to few : but enough had transpired to alarm the multitude, and a formidable conspiracy was organized by Pharnaces, the favorite son of Mithridates. He was quickly joined both by the whole army and the citizens of Panticapnum, who unanimously proclaimed him king, and Mithridates saw that no choice remained to him but death or captivity. Hereupon he took poison, which he constant- ly carried with him ; but his constitution had been so long inured to antidotes that it did not produce the desired effect, and he was compelled to call in the assistance of one of his Gaulish mercena- ries to dispatch him with his sword. Pompey now devoted his attention to the settlement of affairs in Asia. He confirmed Pharnaces, the son of Mithridates, in the pos- session of the kingdom of Bosporus ; Deiotarus, tetrarch of Gala- tia, was rewarded with an extension of territory ; and Ariobarza- nes, king of Cappadocia, was restored to his kingdom. After an absence of seven years, Pompey arrived in Italy toward the end of B.C. G2. His arrival had been long looked for by all parties with various feelings of hope and fear. It was felt that at the head of his victorious troops he could easily play the part of Sulla, and be- come the ruler of the state. Important events had taken place at Rome during the absence of Pompey, of which it is necessary to give an account before following him to the city. Cicero. CHAPTER XXXI. INTERNAL, HISTORY, FROM THE CONSULSHIP CP POMPEY AND CRAS- SUS TO THE RETURN OF POMPEY FROM THE EAST. THE CON- SPIRACY OF CATILINE. B.C. 09-61. NOTWITHSTANDING the restoration of the Tribunate and the al- teration in the judicial power in Pompey's Consulship, the popular party had received such a severe blow during Sulla's supremacy, that the aristocracy still retained the chief political influence dur- ing Pompey's absence in the East. But meantime a new leader of the popular party had been rapidly rising into notice, who was destined not only to crush the aristocracy, but to overthrow the lie- public and become the undisputed master of the Roman world. C. JULIUS C.ESAR, who was descended from an old Patrician family, was six years younger than Pompey, having been born in B.C. 100. He was closely connected with the popular party by the marriage of his aunt Julia with the great Marius, and he himself married, at an early age, Cornelia, the daughter of Cinna, the most B.C. 100-08. C. JULIUS CAESAR. 215 distinguished of the Marian leaders. Sulla commanded him to divorce his wife, and on his refusal he was included in the list of the proscription. The Vestal virgins and his friends with difficul- ty obtained his pardon from the Dictator, who observed, when they pleaded his youth and insignificance, "that that boy would some day or another be the ruin of the aristocracy, for that there were many Mariuses in him." This was the first proof which Cassar gave of the resolution and decision of character which distinguished him throughout life. He went to Asia in B.C. 81, where he served his first campaign under M. Minucius Thermus, and was rewarded, at the siege of Mitylenc, with a civic crown for saving the life of a fellow-soldier. On his return to Home he accused (B.C. 77) Cn. Dolabella of extortion in his province of Macedonia. Dolabella was acquitted by the sena- torial judges; but Caesar gained great reputation by this prosecu- tion, and showed that he possessed powers of oratory which bade fair to place* him among the foremost speakers at Home. To ren- der himself still more perfect in oratory, he went to Rhodes, which was then celebrated for its school of rhetoric, but in his voyage thither he was captured by pirates, with whom the seas of the Med- iterranean then swarmed. In this island he was detained by them till he could obtain fifty talents from the neighboring cities for his ransom. Immediately on obtaining his liberty, he manned some Milesian vessels, overpowered the pirates, and conducted them as prisoners to Pergamus, where he shortly afterward crucified them a punishment he had frequently threatened them with in sport when he was their prisoner. He then repaired to Rhodes, where he studied under Apollonius for a short time, but soon afterward crossed over into Asia, on the outbreak of the Mithridatic war in B.C. 74. Here, although he held no public office, he collected troops on his own authority, and repulsed the commander of the king, and then returned to Rome in the same year, in consequence of having been elected Pontiff during his absence. His affable manners, and, still more, his unbounded liberality, won the hearts of the people. Ca?sar obtained the Qusestorship in B.C. 68. In this year he lost his aunt Julia, the widow of Marius, and his own wife Cornelia. He pronounced orations over both of them in the forum, in which he took the opportunity of passing a panegyric upon the former leaders of the popular party. At the funeral of his aunt he caused the images of Marius to be carried in the procession : they were welcomed with loud acclamations by the people, who were delighted to sec their former favorite brought, as it were, into public again. Caesar warmly supported the Gabinian and Manilian Laws, 216 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXI which bestowed upon Pompey the command against the pirates and Mithridates. These measures, as we have already seen, were opposed by the aristocracy, and widened still farther the breach between them and Pompey. In B.C. G5 Cocsar was Curule JEdile along with M. Bibulus, and still farther increased his popularity by the splendid games which he exhibited. He now took a step which openly proclaimed him the leader of the Marian party. He caused the statues of Marius and the Cimbrian trophies, which had been all destroyed by Sulla, to be privately restored and placed at night in the Capitol. In the morning the city was in the highest state of excitement ; the veterans of Marius cried with joy at be- holding his countenance once more, and greeted Ca?sar with shouts of applause. Q. Catulus brought the conduct of Cisar before the notice of the Senate, but the popular excitement was so great that they thought it better to let the matter drop. In Caesar's ^Edileship the first Catilinarhm conspiracy occurred, and from this time his history forms a portion of that of the times. But before passing on, the early life of another distinguished man, the greatest of Roman orators, also claims our notice. M. TULLIUS CICERO was born at Arpinum in B.C. 106, and con- sequently in the same year as Pompey. His father was of the Equestrian order, and lived upon his hereditary estate near Arpi- num, but none of his ancestors had ever held any of the offices of state. Cicero was therefore, according to the Roman phraseology, a New Man (see p. 128). He served his first and only campaign in the Social War (B.C. 89), and in the troubled times which followed he gave himself up with indefatigable perseverance to those studies which were essential to his success as a laAvyer and orator. When tranquillity was restored by the final discomfiture of the Marian party, he came forward as a pleader at the age of twenty-five. The first of his extant speeches in a civil suit is that for P. Quintius (B.C. 81) ; the first delivered upon a criminal trial was that in de- fense of Sex. Roscius of Ameria, who was charged with parricide by Chrvsogonus, a freedman of Sulla, supported, as it was under- stood, by the influence of his patron. In consequence of the failure of his health, Cicero quitted Rome in B.C. 70, and spent two years in study in the philosophical and rhetorical schools of Athens and Asia Minor. On his return to the city he forthwith took his sta- tion in the foremost rank of judicial orators, and ere long stood alone in acknowledged pre-eminence; his most formidable rivals Hortensius, eight years his senior, and C. Aurelius Cotta, who had long been kings of the bar having been forced, after a short but sharp contest for supremacy, to yield. Cicero's reputation and popularity already stood so high that he B.C. 70-G5. CICERO. CATILINE. 217 was elected Quaestor (B.C. 70), although, comparatively speaking, a stranger, and certainly unsupported by any powerful family inter- est. He served in Sicily under Sex. Peducaeus, Praetor of Lily- bajum. In B.C. 70 he gained great renown by his impeachment of Verres for his oppression of the Sicilians, whom he had ruled as Praetor of Syracuse for the space of three years (B.C. 73-71). The most strenuous exertions were made by Verres, backed by some of the most powerful families, to wrest the case out of the hands of Cicero, who, however, defeated the attempt, and having demanded and been allowed 110 days for the purpose of collecting evidence, he instantly set out for Sicily, which he traversed in less than two months, and returned attended by all the necessary witnesses. An- other desperate effort was made by Horttnsius, now Consul elect, who was counsel for the defendant, to raise up obstacles which might have the effect of delaying the trial until the commence- ment of the following year ; but here again he was defeated by the promptitude and decision of his opponent, who opened the case very briefly, proceeded at once to the examination of the witnesses and the production of the depositions and other papers, which, taken together, constituted a mass of testimony so decisive that Verres gave up the contest as hopeless, and retired at once into exile without attempting any defense. The full pleadings, how- ever, which were to have been delivered had the trial been per- mitted to run its ordinary course, were subsequently published by Cicero. In B.C. G9 Cicero was JEdile, and in GG Praetor. In the latter year he delivered his celebrated address to the people in favor of the Manilian Law. Having now the Consulship in view, and knowing that, as a new man, he must expect the most determined opposition from the Nobles, he resolved to throw himself into the arms of the popular party, and to secure the friendship ot'Pompey, now certainly the most important person in the Republic. In the following year (B.C. 6f>) the first conspiiacy of Catiline occurred. The circumstances of the times were favorable to a bold and unprincipled adventurer. A widespread feeling of dis- affection extended over the whole of Italy. The veterans of Sulla had already squandered their ill-gotten wealth, and longed for a renewal of those scenes of blood which they had found so profit- able. The multitudes whose estates had been confiscated and whose relations had been proscribed were eagerly watching for any movement which might give them a chance of becoming rob- l ers and murderers in their turn. The younger nobility, as a class, were thoroughly demoralized, for the most part bankrupts in for- tune as well as in fame, and eager for any change which might 213 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXI. relieve them from their embarrassments. The rabble were restless and di contented, filled with envy and hatred against the rich and powcrf .1. Never was the executive weaker. The Senate and Magistrates were wasting their energies in petty disputes, indiffer- ent to the interests of the Republic. Pompey, at the head of all the best troops of the Republic, was prosecuting a long-protracted war in the East ; there was no army in Italy, where all was hushed in a treacherous calm. Of the profligate nobles at this time none was more profligate than L. SERGIUS CATILINA. He was the descendant of an ancient patrician family Avhich had sunk into poverty, and he first appears in history as a zealous partisan of Sulla. During the horrors of the proscription he killed his brother-in-law, Q. Ciecilius, and is said to have murdered even his own brother. His youth was spent in the open indulgence of every vice, and it was believed that he had made away with his first wife, and afterward with his son, in order that he might marry the profligate Anrelia Orestilla, who objected to the presence of a grown-up step-child. Notwithstand- ing these crimes, he acquired great popularity among the younger nobles by his agreeable address and his zeal in ministering to tbeir pleasures. He possessed extraordinary powers of mind and body, and all who came in contact with him submitted more or less to the ascendency of his genius. He was Praetor in B.C. G8 ; was Governor of Africa during the following year ; and returned to Rome in B.C. 66, in order to press his suit for the Consulship. The election for B.C. 65 was carried by P. Autronius Pactus and P. Cor- nelius Sulla, both of whom were soon after convicted of bribery, and their places supplied by their competitors and accusers, L. Au- relius Cotta and L. Manlius Torquatus. Catiline, who was desir- ous of becoming a candidate, had been disqualified in consequence of an impeachment for oppression in his province preferred by P. Clodius Pulcher. Exasperated by their disappointment, Autroni- us and Catiline formed a project, along with Cn. Calpurnius Piso, another profligate young nobleman, to murder the new Consuls upon the first of January, when offering up their vows in the Cap- itol, after which Autronius and Catiline were to seize the fasces, and Piso was to be dispatched with an army to occupy the Spains- This extraordinary design is said to have been frustrated solely by the impatience of Catiline, who gave the signal prematurely before the whole of the armed agents had assembled. Encouraged rather than disheartened by a failure which had so nearly proved a triumph, Catiline was soon after left completely unfettered by his acquittal upon trial for extortion, a result, secured by the lihcr.il brills administered to the accuser as well as to the B.O. G4. CATILINE'S CONSPIRACY. 21'J jm.y. From this time he proceeded more systematic-ally, find en- listed a more numerous body of supporters. In the course of B.C. 64 he had enrolled several Senators in his ranks, among others P. Cornelius Lentulus Sura, who had been Consul in B.C. 71, and C. Cornelius Cethegus, distinguished throughout by his impetuosity and sanguinary violence. He proposed that all debts should be canceled, that the most wealthy citizens should be proscribed, and that all offices of honor and emolument should be divided among his associates. He confidently anticipated that he should be elect*' ed Consul for the next year along with C. Antonius, having formed a coalition with him for the purpose of excluding Cicero. The orator, however, was supported, not only by the Equites and Pom- pey's friends, but even by the Senate, who, though disliking a New Man, were compelled to give him their support in order to exclude Catiline. The consequence was that Cicero and Antonius were returned, the former nearly unanimously, the latter by a small ma- jority over Catiline. As soon as Cicero entered upon his Consul- ship he renounced his connection with the popular party, and be- came a stanch supporter of the aristocracy. He successfully op- posed an agrarian law proposed by the Tribune Rullus, and de- fended C. Rabirius, who was now accused by the Tribune Labienus of having been concerned in the death of Saturninus nearly forty years before. Caesar took an active part in both these proceedings. But the attention of Cicero was mainly directed to Catiline's con- spiracy. He gained over his colleague Antonius by resigning to him the province of Macedonia. Meantime he became acquaint- ed with every detail of the plot through Fulvia. the mistress of Q. Curitis, one of Catiline's intimate associates. Thus informed, Cic- ero called a meeting of the Senate on the 21st of October, when he openly denounced Catiline, charged him broadly with treason, and asserted that the 28th was the period fixed for the murder of the leading men in the Republic. The Senate thereupon invested the Consuls with dictatorial power. The Comitia for the election of the Consuls was now held. Catiline, again a candidate, was again rejected. Driven to despair by this fresh disappointment, he resolved at once to bring matters to a crisis. On the night of the Gth of November he summoned a meeting of the ringleaders at the house of M. Porcius Laeca, and made arrangements for an im- mediate outbreak. Cicero, being immediately informed of what took place, summoned, on the 8th of November, a meeting of the Senate in the Temple of Jupiter Stator, and there delivered the first of his celebrated orations against Catiline. Catiline, who upon his entrance had been avoided by all, and was sitting alone upon a bench from which every ono hod shrunk, rose to reply, but had 220 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXI scarcely commenced when his words were drowned by the shouts of " enemy" and "parricide" which burst from the whole assembly, and he rushed forth with threats and curses on his lips. He now resolved to strike some decisive blow before troops could be levied to oppose him, and accordingly, leaving the chief control of affairs at Rome in the hands of Lentulus and Cethegus, he set forth in the dead of night, and proceeded to join Manlius at Fajsulae. On the 9th, when the flight of Catiline was known, Cicero de- livered his second speech, which was addressed to the people in the forum. The Senate proceeded to declare Catiline and Manlius public enemies, and decreed that Antonius should go forth to the war, while Cicero should remain to guard the citv. Cicero was now anxious to obtain other evidence, besides that of Fulvia, which would warrant him in apprehending the conspirators within the \valls. This was fortunately supplied by the embassadors of the Allobroges, who were now at Rome, having been sent to seek relief from certain real or alleged grievances. Their suit, however, had not prospered, and Lentulus, conceiving that their discontent might be made available for his own purposes, opened a negotiation with them and disclosed to them the nature of the plot. But they thought it more prudent to reveal all to Q. Fabius Sanga, the pa- tron of their state, who in his turn acquainted Cicero. By the in- structions of the latter the embassadors affected great zeal in the undertaking, and obtained a written agreement signed by Lentu- lus, Cethegus, and others. They quitted Rome soon after mid- night on the 3d of December, accompanied by one T. Volturcius, who was charged with dispatches for Catiline. The embassadors were seized, as they were crossing the Mulvian bridge, by two of the Praetors, who had been stationed in ambush to intercept them. Cicero instantly summoned Lentulus, Cethegus, and the other conspirators to his presence. Lentulus being Praetor, the Consul led him by the hand to the Temple of Concord, where the Senate was already met ; the rest of the accused followed closely guarded. Volturcius, finding escape impossible, agreed, upon his own per- sonal safety being insured, to make a full confession. His state- ments were confirmed by the Allobroges, and the testimony was rendered conclusive by the signatures of the ringleaders, which *,hey were unable to deny. The guilt of Lentulus, Cethegus, and seven others being thus established, Lentulus was forced to abdi- cate his office, and then, with the res f , was consigned to the charge of certain Senators, who became responsible for their appearance. These circumstances, as they had occurred, were then narrated by Cicero in his Third Oration, delivered in the forum. On the nones (5th) of December the Senate was again summoned to de- B.C. 62. DEATH OF CATILINE. 221 termine upon the fate of the conspirators. Caesar, in an elaborate speech, proposed that they should be kept in confinement in the different towns of Italy, but Cato and Cicero strongly advocated that they should be instantly put to death. Their views were adopted by a majority of the Senate, and a decree passed to that effect. On the same night Lentulus and his associates were stran- gled by the common executioner in the Tullianum, a loathsome dungeon on the slope of the Capitol. While these tilings were going on at Rome, Catiline had collect* ed a force amounting to two legions, although not above one fourth part were fully equipped. When the news of the failure of the plot at Home reached his camp many deserted. He thereupon at- tempted to cross the Apennines and take refuge in Cisalpine Gaul, but the passes were strictly guarded by Metellus Celer with three legions. Finding, therefore, that escape was cut off in front, while Antonius was pressing on his rear, Catiline determined, as a last resource, to hazard an engagement. Antonius, in consequence of real or pretended illness, resigned the command to M. Petreius, a skillful soldier. The battle was obstinate and bloody. The rebels fought with the fury of despair ; and when Catiline saw that all was lost, he charged headlong into the thickest of the iight and fell sword in hand (B.C. G2). Cicero had rendered important services to the state, and enjoyed for a time unbounded popularity. Catulus in the Senate and Cato in the forum hailed him as the "Father of his Country ;" thanks- givings in his name were voted to the gods; and all Italy joined in testifying enthusiastic admiration and gratitude. Cicero's ela- tion knew no bounds ; he fancied that his political influence was now supreme, and looked upon himself as a match even for Pom- pey. But his splendid achievement contained the germ of his hu- miliation and downfall. There could be no doubt that the punish- ment inflicted by the Senate upon Lentulus and his associates was a violation of the fundamental principles of the Roman Constitu- tion, which declared that no citizen could be put to death until sen- tenced by the whole body of the people assembled in their Comi- tia, and for this act Cicero, as the presiding magistrate, was held responsible. It was in vain to urge that the Consuls had been armed with dictatorial power ; the Senate, in the present instance, assuming to themselves judicial functions which they had no right to exercise, gave orders for the execution of a sentence which they had no right to pronounce. Nor were his enemies long in discov- ering this vulnerable pohr. On the last day of the year, when, according to established custom, he ascended the Rostra to give an account to the people of the events of his Consulship, Metellus Ce- 222 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXL ier, one of the new Tribunes, forbade him to speak, exclaiming that the man who had put Roman citizens to death without granting them a hearing was himself unworthy to be heard. But this at- tack was premature. The audience had not yet forgotten their recent escape ; so that, when Cicero swore with a loud voice that "he had saved the Republic and the city from ruin," the crowd with one voice responded that he had sworn truly. It was rumored that many other eminent men had been privy to Catiline's conspiracy. Among others, the names of Crassus anJ. Ca;sar were most frequently mentioned ; but the participation of either of these men in such an enterprise seems most improbable. The interests of Crassus were opposed to such an adventure ; his vast wealth was employed in a variety of speculations which would have been ruined in a general overthrow, while he had not the en- ergy or ability to seize and retain the helm in the confusion that would have ensued. Of Caesar's guilt there is no satisfactory evi- dence, and it is improbable that so keen-sighted a man would have leagued with such a desperate adventurer as Catiline. Cato, in his speech respecting the fate of the conspirators, hinted that Ca3- sar wished to spare them because he was a partner of their guilt; and in the following year (B.C. 62), Avhen Cajsar was Prastor, L.VeU tins, who had been one of Cicero's informers, openly charged him with being a party to the plot. Thereupon Csesar called upon Cic- ero to testify that he had of his own accord given the Consul evi- dence respecting the conspiracy; and so complete was his vindica- tion that Vettius was thrown into prison. Coin of Pompey. Julius (.'HMiir. CHAPTER XXXII. FKOM POMPEY'S RETURN FROM THE EAST TO CICERO'S BANISH- MENT AND RECALL. B.C. 62-57. POMPEY, as we have already seen, reached Italy in B.C. C2. It was generally feared that he would seize the supreme power, but he soon calmed these apprehensions by disbanding his army im- mediately after landing atBrtmdusium. He did not, however, en- ter Home in triumph till the 30th of September, B.C. 61. The tri- umph lasted two days, and surpassed in splendor every spectacle that Rome had yet seen. The tablets carried in the procession, on which his victories were embla/.oned, declared that he had t:>ken 1000 strong fortresses, 900 towns, and 800 ships ; that lie had founded 39 cities; that he had raised the revenue of the Roman people from 59 millions to 85 millions ; and that he had brought into the public treasury 20,000 talents. Before his triumphal car walked 324 captive princes. With this triumph the first and most glorious part of Pompcy's life may be said to have ended. Hitherto he had been employed almost exclusively in war; but now he was called upon to play u prominent part in the civil commotions of the Republic a part for which neither his natural talents nor his previous habits had in the 224 HISTORY OF HOME. CIIAI: XXXII, least fitted him. From the death of Sulla to the present time, a period of nearly twenty years, he had been unquestionably the first man in the Roman world, but he did not retain much longer this proud position, and soon discovered that the genius of Caesar had reduced him to a second place in the state. It would seem as if Pompey, on his return to Rome, hardly knew to which party to attach himself. He had been appointed to the command against the pirates and Mithridatcs in opposition to the aristocracy, and they still regarded him with jealousy and distrust. He could not, therefore, ally himself to them, especially too as some of their most influential leaders, such as M. Crassus and L. Lucullus, were his personal enemies. At the same time he seems to have been in- disposed to unite himself to the popular party, which had risen into importance during his absence in the East, and over which Caesar possessed unbounded influence. But the object which en- gaged the immediate attention of Pompey was to obtain from the Senate a ratification of his acts in Asia, and an assignment of lands which he had promised to his veterans. In order to secure this object, he had purchased the Consulship for one of his officers, L. Afranius, who was elected with Q. Metelltis for u.c. GO. But L. Afranius was a man of slender ability ; and the Senate, glad of an opportunity to put an affront upon a person whom they both feared and hated, resolutely refused to sanction Pompey's measures in Asia. This was the unwisest thing they could have done. If they had known their real interests, they would have yielded to all Pom- pey's wishes, and have sought by every means to win him over to their side, as a counterpoise to the growing and more dangerous influence of Ca3sar. But their short-sighted policy threw Pompey into Cesar's arms, and thus sealed the downfall of their party. Pompey was resolved to fulfill the promises he had made to his Asiatic clients and his veteran troops. Cajsar had returned from Spain in the middle of this year. He had been in that province for one year as Proprietor, during which time he displayed that military ability which was soon to be ex- hibited on a still more conspicuous field. He subdued the mount- ainous tribes of Lusitania, took the town of Brigantium in the country of the Gallieci, and gained many other advantages over the enemy. His troops saluted him as Imperator, and the Senate honored him by a public thanksgiving. He now laid claim to a triumph, and at the same time wished to become a candidate for the Consulship. For the latter purpose Lis presence in the city was necessary; but, as he could not enter the city without relin- quishing his triumph, he applied to the Senate to be exempted from the usual law, and to become a candidate in his absence. As this B.C. CO. CJESAR ELECTED CONSUL. 225 was refused, lie at once relinquished his triumj li. entered the city, and became a candidate for the Consulship. He was elected with- out difficulty, hut the aristocracy succeeded in associating with him in the Consulship M. Bibulus, who belonged to the opposite party, and who had likewise been his colleague in the -ZEdileship and Praetorship. Ca?sar now represented to Pompey the importance of detaching from the aristocracy M. Crassus, who, by his connections and im- mense wealth, possessed great political influence. Pompey and Crassus had for a long time past been deadly enemies, but they were now reconciled, and the three entered into an agreement to divide the power between themselves. This first Triumvirate, as it is called, was therefore merely a private arrangement between the three most powerful men at Rome, which remained a secret till the proceedings of Casar in his Consulship showed that he was supported by a power against which it was in vain for his enemies to struggle. As soon as Cffisar had entered upon his Consaibhip he proposed an agrarian law for the division of the rich Campanian land. The execution of the law was to be intrusted to a board of twenty com- missioners. The opposition of the aristocratical party was in vain. Pompey and Crassus spoke in favor of the law ; and the former declared that he would bring both sword and buckler against those who used the sword. On the day on which it was put to the vote, Bibulus and the other members of the aristocracy were driven out of the forum by force of arms : the law was carried, the commis- sioners appointed, and about 20,000 citizens, comprising, of course, a great number of Pornpey's veterans, received allotments subse- quently. Bibulus, despairing of being able to offer any farther re- sistance to Cassar, shut himself up in his own house, and did not appear again in public till the expiration of his Consulship. Cffisar obtained from the people a ratification of all Pompey's acts in Asia, and, to cement their union more closely, gave his only daughter Julia in marriage to Pompey. His next step was to gain over the Equites, who had rendered efficient service to Cicero in his Consulship, and had hitherto supported the aristocratical party. An excellent opportunity now occurred for accomplishing this object. In their eagerness to obtain the farming of the public taxes in Asia, the Equites had agreed to pay too large a sum, and accordingly petitioned the Senate for more favorable terms. This, however, had been opposed by Metellus Celer, Cato, and others of the aristocracy ; and Ca'sar, therefore, now carried a law to re- lieve the Equites from one third of the sum which they had agreed to pay. Having thus gratified the people, the Equites, and Pom- 320 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXXII pey, he was easily able to obtain for himself the provinces wind; he wished. It is not attributing any extraordinary foresight to Caesar to sup- pose that he already saw that the struggle between the different parties at Rome must eventually be terminated by the sword. The same causes were still in operation which had led to the civil wars between Marius and Sulla; and he was well aware that the aris- tocracy would not hesitate to call in the assistance of force if they should ever succeed in detaching Pompey from his interests. Jt was therefore of the first importance for him to obtain an ;;rmy which he might attach to himself by victories and rewards. Ac- cordingly, he induced the Tribune Vatinius to propose a bill to the people granting him the provinces of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum for five years (B.C. 58-54). Transalpine Gaul was shortly after- ward added. Caesar chose the Gallic provinces, as he would thus be able to pass the winter in Italy and keep up his communication with the city, while the disturbed state of Farther Gaul promised him sufficient materials for engaging in a series of wars in which he might employ an army that would afterward be devoted to his purposes. In addition to these considerations, Caesar was also ac- tuated by the ambition of subduing forever that nation which had once sacked Rome, and which had been, from the earliest times, more or less an object of dread to the Roman state. The Consuls of the following year (B.C. 58) were L. Calpurnius Piso and A. Gabinius. Piso was Caesar's father-in-law, and Ga- binius in his Tribunate had proposed the law conferring upon Pom- pey the command against the pirates. Caesar saw that it was evi- dent they would support whatever the Triumvirs might wish. Cic- ero was now threatened with destruction. In B.C. C2, while the wife of Caesar was celebrating in the house of her husband, then Praetor and Pontifex Maximus, the rites of the Bona Dea, from which all male creatures were excluded, it was discovered that P. Clodins Pulchcr, a profligate noble, whom we have seen inciting the army of Lucullus to insurrection, had found his way into the mansion disguised in woman's apparel, and, hav- ing been detected, had made his escape by the help of a female slave. The matter was laid before the Senate, and by them re- ferred to the members of the Pontifical College, who passed a reso- lution that sacrilege had been committed. Caesar forthwith di- vorced his wife. Clodius was impeached and brought to trial. In defense he pleaded an alibi, offering to prove that he was at Inter- amna at the very time when the crime was said to have been com- mitted; but Cicero came forward as a witness, and swore that he hud met and spoken to Clodius in Rome on the day in question. B.C. 58. BANISHMENT OF CICERO. 227 la spite of this decisive testimony, and the evident guilt of the accused, the Judices pronounced him innocent by a majority of voices (B.C. Gl). Olodius now vowed deadly vengeance against Cicero. To accomplish his purpose more readily, he determined to become a candidate for the Tribunate, but for this it was neces- sary, in the lirst place, that he should be adopted into a plebeian family by means of a special law. This, after protracted opposi- tion, was at length accomplished through the interference of the Triumvirs, and he was elected Tribune for B.C. 58. One of the first acts of Clodius, after entering upon office, was to^>ro;>ose a bill interdicting from fire and water any one who should b2 found to have put a Roman citizen to death untried. Cicero changed his attire, and, assuming the garb of one accused, went round the Forum soliciting the compassion of all whom he mat. For a brief period public sympathy was awakened. A large number of the Senate and the Equites appeared also in mourning, and the better portion of the citixens seemed resolved to espouse his cause. But all demonstrations of such feelings were promptly repressed by Piso and Gabinius. Cassar had previously made over- tures to Cicero, which the orator, overrating his influence and re- lying upon the support of Pompey, had rejected. The Triumvirs now left him to his fate, and Cicero, giving way to despair, quitted Rome at the beginning of April (B.C. 58), and reached Brundusiurn about the middle of the month. From thence he crossed over to Greece. The instant that the departure of Cicero became known, a law was passed pronouncing his banishment, forbidding any one to entertain or harbor him, and denouncing as a public enemy who- soever should take any steps toward procuring his recall. His mansion on the Palatine, and his villas at Tusculum and Formias, were at the same time given over to plunder and destruction. Clodius, having thus gratified his hatred, did not care to consult any longer the views of the Triumvirs. He restored Tigranes to liberty, whom Pompey had kept in confinement, ridiculed the great Imperator before the people, and was accused of making nn attempt upon his life. Pompey, in revenge, resolved to procure the recall of Cicero from banishment, and was thus brought again into some friendly connections with the aristocratical party. The new Con- suls (B.C. 57) were favorable to Cicero; but, though Clodius was no longer in office, he had several partisans among the Tribunes who offered the most vehement opposition to the restoration of his great enemy. One of the chief supporters of Cicero was the Trib- une T. Annius Milo, a man as unprincipled and violent as Clodius himself. He opposed force to force, and at the head of a band of gladiators attacked the hired ruffians of Clodius. The streets of 228 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXXIL Rome were the scenes of almost daily conflicts between the lead- ers of these assassins. Al length the Senate, with the full appro- bation of Pompey, determined to invite the voters from the differ- ent parts of Italy to repair to Home and assist in carrying a law for the recall of Cicero. Accordingly, on the 4th of August, the bill was passed by an overwhelming majority. On the same day Cicero quitted Dyrrhachium, and crossed over to Brundusium. He received deputations and congratulatory addresses from all the towns on the line of the Appian Way; and having arrived at Rome on the 4th of September, a vast multitude poured forth to meet him, while the crowd rent the air with acclamations as he passed through the Forum and ascended the Capitol to render thanks to Jupiter (B.C. 57). Temple of Hercules at Uuuie. Temple of Xemausus (-Vimes), now called the Mainon Carr& CHAPTER XXXIII. CESAR'S CAMPAIGNS IN GAUL. B.C. 58-50. CAESAR set out for his province immediately after Cicero had gone into exile (B.C. 58). During the next nine years he was oc- cupied with the subjugation of Gaul. In this time he conquered the whole of Transalpine Gaul, which had hitherto been independ- ent of the Romans, with the exception of the part called Provincia. Twice he crossed the Rhine, and carried the terror of the Roman arms bevond that river. Twice he landed in Britain, which had been hitherto unknown to the Romans. We can only offer a very brief sketch of the principal events of each year. First Campaign, B.C. 58. Caesar left Rome toward the latter end of April, and arrived in Geneva in eight days. His first campaign was against the Helvetii, a Gallic people situated to the north of the Lake of Geneva, and batwcen the Rhine and Mount Jura. This people, quitting their homes, had passed through the country of the Scquaui, and were plundering the territories of the JEdui. Three out of their four clans had already crossed the Arar (Saune) ; but the fourth, which was still on the other side of the river, was surprised by Oivsar and cut to pieces. He then threw a bridge across the Arar, followed them cautiously for some days, and at length fought a pitched battle with them near the town of Bibracte (A ut mi). The Ilelvetii were defeated with great slaughter, and the remnant compelled to return to their former homes. This great victory raised Ca:sar's fame among the various tribes of Gauls, and the JEdui solicited his assistance against Ariovistus, 230 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXXIII. a German king who had invaded Gaul, and was constantly bring- ing over the Rhine fresh swarms of Germans. Caisar command- ed Ariovistns to ahstain from introducing any more Germans into Gaul, to restore the hostages to the .^Edui, and not to attack the latter or their allies. A haughty answer was returned to these commands, and both parties prepared for war. Caesar advanced northward through the country of the Sequani, took possession of Vesontio (Besanfon), an important town on the Dubis (Daubs'), and some days afterward fought a decisive battle with Ariovistus, who suffered a total defeat, and fled with the remains of his army to the Rhine, a distance of fifty miles. Only a very few, and, among the rest, Ariovistus himself, crossed the river ; the rest were cut to pieces by the Koman cavalry. Second Campaign, B.C. 57. The following year was occupied with the Belgic war. Alarmed at Caesar's success, the various Belgic tribes which dwelt between the Sequana (Seine) and the Rhine, and were the most warlike of all the Gauls, had entered into a confederacy to oppose him, and had raised an arrny of 300,000 men. Caasar opened the campaign by marching into the country of the Rerni, who submitted at his approach. He then crossed the Axona (Aisne), and pitched his camp in a strong position on the right bank. The enemy soon began to suffer from want of uro- visions, and they came to the resolution of breaking up their vast army, and retiring to their own territories. Hitherto Caesar had remained in his intrenchments, but he now broke up from'his quar- ters and resumed the offensive. The Suessiones, the Eellovaci, and Ambiani were subdued in succession, or surrendered of their own accord ; but a more formidable task awaited him when he came to the Nervii, the most warlike of all the Belgic tribes. In their country, near the River Sabis (Sambre), the Roman army was surprised by the enemy while engaged in fortifying the camp. The attack of the Nervii was so unexpected, that before the Ro- mans could form in rank the enemy was in their midst: the Ro- man soldiers began to give way, and the battle seemed entirely lost. Caesar freely exposed his own person in the first line of the battle, and discharged alike the duties of a brave soldier and an able gen- eral. His exertions and the discipline of the Roman troops at length triumphed, and the Nervii were defeated with such immense slaughter, that out of 00,000 fighting men only 500 remained in the state. When the Senate received the dispatches of Caesar an- nouncing this victory, they decreed a public thanksgiving of fifteen days a distinction which had never yet been granted to any one. Third Canipaif/n, i$.c. 56. In the third campaign Caesar com- pleted the subjugation of Gaul. He conducted in person a naval B.C. 56-55. CAESAR'S CAMPAIGNS IN GAUL. 231 war against the Veneti, the inhabitants of the modern Brittany, and, by means of his lieutenants, conquered the remaining tribes who still held out. In the later part of the summer Cajsar marched against the Morini and Menapii (in the neighborhood of Calais and Boulogne). Thus all Gaul had been apparently reduced to subjection in three years ; but the spirit of the people was yet un- broken, and they only waited for an opportunity to rise against their conquerors. Fourth Campaign, B.C. 55. In the following year Caesar determ- ined to attack the Germans. The Gauls had suffered too much in the last three campaigns to make any farther attempt against the Romans at, present; but Caesar's ambition would not allow him to be idle. Fresh wars must be undertaken to employ his troops in active service. Two German tribes, the Usipetes and the Tcnch- theri, had been driven out of their own country by the Suevi, and had crossed the Rhine with the intention of settling in Gaul. This, however, Casar was resolved to prevent, and accordingly pre- pared to attack them. The Germans opened negotiations with him, but, while these were going on, a body of their cavalry de- feated Cursor's Gallic horse. On the next day all the German chiefs came into Caesar's camp to apologize for what they had done; but Caesar detained them, and straightway led his troops to attack the enemy. Deprived of their leaders and taken by sur- prise, the Germans, after a feeble resistance, look to flight, and were almost all destroyed by the Roman .cavalry. After this vic- tory Cajsar resolved to cross the Rhine, in order to strike terror into the Germans. In ten days he built a bridge of boats across the river, probably in the neighborhood of Cologne ; and after spend- ing eighteen days on the eastern side of the Rhine, and ravaging the country of the Sigambri, he returned to Gaul and broke down the bridge. Although the greater part of the summer was now gone, Crcsar ivsolveJ to invade Britain. His object in undertaking this expe- dition at such a late period of the year was more to obtain some knowledge of the island from personal observation than with any view to permanent conquest at present. He accordingly took with him only two legions, with which he palled from the port Itius (probably Witsand, between Calais and Boulogne), and effected a landing somewhere near the South Foreland, after a severe strug- gle with the natives. Several of the British tribes hereupon sent offers of submission to Caesar ; but, in consequence of the loss of a great part of the Roman fleet a few days afterward, they took up arms again. Being, however, defeated, they again sent offers of submission to Cajsar, who simply demanded double the number of 232 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXIII. hostages he had originally required, as he was anxious to return to Gaul before the autumnal equinox. The news of these victories over the Germans and far-distant Britons was received at Rome with the greatest enthusiasm. The Senate voted a public thanksgiving of twenty days, notwithstand- ing the opposition of Cato, who declared that Caspar ought to be de- livered up to the Usipetes and Tenchtheri, to atone for his treach- ery in seizing the sacred persons of embassadors. Fifth Cauipaif/n, B.C. 54. The greater part of Cresar's fifth cam- paign was occupied with his second invasion of Britain. He sailed from the port Itius with an army of five legions, arid landed, with- out opposition, at the same place as in the former year. The Brit- ish states had intrusted the supreme command to Cassivellaunus, a, chief whose territories were divided from the maritime states by the River Tamesis (Thames). The Britons bravely opposed the progress of the invaders, but were defeated in a series of engage- ments. Caesar crossed the Thames above London, probably in the neighborhood of Kingston, took the town of Cassivellaunus, and conquered great part of the counties of Essex and Middlesex. In consequence of these disasters, Cassivellaunus sued for peace ; and after demanding hostages, and settling the tribute which Britain should pay yearly to the Roman people, Caesar returned to Gaul toward the latter part of the summer. He gained no more by his second invasion of Biitain than by his firsf. He had penetrated, it is true, farther into the country, but had left no garrisons or mil- itary establishments behind him, and the people obeyed the Ro- mans as little afterward as they .had done before. In consequence of the great scarcity of com in Gaul. Ca?sar was obliged to divide his forces, and station' his legions for the wintcf in different parts. This seemed .to the Gauls a favorable opportu- nity for recovering their lost independence and destroying their conquerors. The Eburones, a Gallic people between the Mense and the Rhine, near the modern Tony re- a, destroyed the detach- ment under the command of T. Titurius Sabinus and L. Aurtmcn- leius Cotta. They next attacked the camp of Q. Cicero, the broth- er of the orator, who was stationed among the Nervii. Cicero re- pulsed the enemy in all their attempts, till he was at length re- lieved by Caesar in person, who came to his assistance with two Jegions as soon as he heard of the dangerous position of his legate. The forces of the enemy, which amounted to 60,000, were defeated by Cassar, who then joined Cicero, and praised him and his men for the braA'ery they had shown. Sixth CamjHtifjn, B. c. 53. In the next year the Gauls again took up arms, and entered into a most formidable conspiracy to recover B.C. 53. CAESAR'S CAMPAIGNS IN GAUL. 233 their independence. The destruction of the Roman troops under Sabinus and Cotta, and the unsettled state of Gaul during the win- ter, had led Caisar to apprehend a general rising of ti.o natives ; and he had accordingly levied two new legions in Cisalpine Gaul, and obtained one from Pompey, who was remaining in the neigh- borhood of Home as Proconsul with the imperium. Being thus at the head of a powerful army, he was able to subdue the tribes that revolted, and ^oon compelled the Nervii, Senones, Carnutes, Mena- pii, and Tivviri to return to obedience. But as the Treviri had been supported by the Germans, he crossed the Rhine again a little above the spot where he had passed over two years before, and, after receiving the submission of the Ubii, ravaged the country of the Suevi. On his return to Gaul he laid waste the country of the Eburones with fire and sword. At the conclusion of the campaign he prosecuted a strict inquiry into the revolt of the Senoncs and Carnutes, and caused Acco, who had been the chief ringleader in the conspiracy, to be put to death. ,^< rciith CainjHiiyn, B.C. 52. The unsuccessful issue of last year's revolt had not. yet damped the spirits of the Gauls. The execu- tion of Acco had frightened all the chiefs, as every one feared that his turn might come next; the hatred of the Roman yoke was in- tense ; and thus nil the materials were ready for a general confla- gration. It was first kindled by the Carnutes, and in a short time it spread from district to district till almost the whole of Gaul was in flames. Even the JEdui, who had been hitherto the faithful al- lies of the Romans, and had assisted them in all their wars, subse- quently joined the general revolt. At the head of the insurrection was Vercingetorix, a young man of noble family belonging to the Arverni, and by far the ablest general that Caesar had yet encoun- tered. Never before had the Gauls been so united : Caesar's con- quests of the last six years seemed to be now entirely lost. The campaign of this year, therefore, was by far the most arduous that Cscsar had yet carried on ; but his genius triumphed over every ob- stacle, and rendered it the most brilliant of all. He concentrated his forces with incredible rapidity, and lost no time in attacking the chief towns in the hands cf the enemy. Vellaunodunum (in the country of Chateau- Landon), Genabum (0?7rVm.s), and Novio- dunum (Nouan, between Orleans and Bourgcs), fell into his hands without difficulty. Alarmed at his rapid progress, Vercingetorix persuaded his countrymen to lay waste their country and destroy their towns. This plan was accordingly carried into effect; bur, contrarv to the wishes of Vercingetorix" Avaricum ( nourqcx'), the chief town of the Bituriges, and a strongly-fortified place, was spared from the general destruction. This town Csesar accordingly 231: HISTORY OF ROME. CIIAI-. XXXIII besieged, and, notwithstanding the heroic resistance, of the Gauls, it was at length taken, and all the inhabitants, men, women, and children, were indiscriminately butchered. Caesar now divided his army into two parts : one division, con- sisting of four legions, lie sent, under the command of T. Labienus, against the Senones and Parisii ; the other, comprising six legions, he led in person into the country of the Arverni, and with them laid siege to Gergovia (near C7e/-/o///). The revolt of the JEdui shortly afterward coinpelL-d him to raise the siege, and inspired the Gauls with fresh courage. Vercingetorix retired to Alesia (Alise, in Burgundy), which Avas considered impregnable, and re- solved to wait for succors from his countrymen. Cajsar immedi- ately laid siege to the place, and drew lines of circumvallation around it. The Romans, however, were in their turn soon sur- rounded by a vast Gallic army which had assembled to raise the siege. Caesar's army was thus placed in imminent peril, and on no occasion in his whole life was his military genius so conspicu- ous. He was between two great armies. Vercingetorix had 70,000 men in Alesia, and the Gallic army without consisted of between 250,000 and 300,000 men. Still he would not raise the siege. He prevented Vercingetorix from breaking through the lines, entirely routed the Gallic army without, and finally com- pelled Alesia to surrender. Vercingetorix himself fell into his liands. The fall of Alesia was followed by the submission of the ^Edui and Arverni. Caesar then led his troops into winter quar- ters. After receiving his dispatches, the Senate voted him a pub- lic thanksgiving of twenty days, as in the year u.c. 55. Eighth Campaign, u.c. 51. The victories of the preceding year had determined the fate, of Gaul; but many states still remained in arms, and entered into fresh conspiracies during the winter. This year was occupied in the reduction of these states, into the particulars of which we need not enter. During the winter Caesar employed himself in the pacification of Gaul, and, as he already paw that his presence would soon be necessary in Italy, he was unxious to remove all causes for future wars. He accordingly im- posed no new taxes, treated the states with honor and respect, and bestowed great presents upon the chiefs. The experience of the last two years had taught the Gauls that they had no hope of con- tending successfully against C;tsar, and, as lie now treated them with mildness, they were the more readily induced to submit pa- tiently to the Roman yoke. CHAPTER XXXIV. INTERNAL HISTORY, FROM THE RETURN* OF CICERO FROM BANISH- MENT TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CIVIL WAR. EXPEDI- TION AND DEATH OF CRASSUS. B.C. 57-50. CICERO returned from banishment an altered man. Though his return had been glorious, he saw that his position was entirely changed, and he was forced to yield to a power which he no longer dared to resist. He even lent his support to the Triumvirs, and praised in public those proceedings which he had once openly and loudly condemned. Meantime the power of Pompey had been shaken at Rome. A misunderstanding had sprung up between him and Crassus, and Cato and the other leaders of the aristocracy at- tacked him with the utmost vehemence. The Senate began to en- tertain hopes of recovering their power. They determined to sup- port L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, who, in B.C. 50, had become a can- didate for the Consulship for the following year, and who threat- ened to deprive Caesar of his provinces and armies. Under these circumstances Caisar invited Pompey and Crassus to meet him at 236 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXIV. Luca (Lucca') in the spring of B.C. 5G. He reconciled them to each other, and arranged that they were to be Consuls for the next year, and obtain provinces and armies, while he himself was to have hig government prolonged for another five years, and to receive pay for his troops. On their return to Home, Pompey and Crassus be- came candidates for the Consulship ; but Domitius Ahenobarbus, supported by Cato and the aristocracy, offered a most determined Opposition. The Consul Lentulus Marcellinus likewise was re- solved to use every means to prevent their election ; and, finding it impossible to carry their election while Marcellinus was in office, they availed themselves of the veto of two of the Tribunes to pre- vent the Consular Comitia from being held this year. The elec- tions, therefore, did not take place till the beginning of B.C. 55, un- der the presidency of an interrex. Even then Ahenobarbus and Cato did not relax in their opposition ; and it was not till the armed bands of Pompey and Crassus had cleared the Campus Martius of their adversaries that they were declared Consuls for the second time (B.C. 55). They forthwith proceeded to carry into effect the compact that had been made at Luca. They induced the Tribune C.Trebonius to bring forward two bills, one of which gave the province of the two Spains to Pompey, and that of Syria to Crassus ; the other prolonged Caesar's government for five years more, namely, from the 1st of January, B.C. 53, to the end of the year 49. Pompey was now at the head of the state ; and at the expiration of his year of office would no longer be a private man, but with the command of an army and in possession of the imperium. With an army he felt sure of regaining his former influence. He had now completed the theatre which he had been some time building, and, as a means of regaining the popular favor, he resolved to open it with an exhibi- tion of games of unparalleled splendor and magnificence. The building itself was worthy of the conqueror of the East. It was the first stone theatre that had been erected at Rome, and was suf- ficiently large to accommodate 40,000 spectators. The games ex- hibited lasted many days. Five hundred African lions and eight- een elephants were killed. A rhinoceros was likewise exhibited on this occasion for the first time. Pompey sent an army into Spain under the command of his lieutenants, L. Afranius and M. Petreius, while he himself remained in the neighborhood of Rome as Proconsul. Before the end of the year Crassus set out for Syria, with the intention of attacking the Parthian?. He was anxious to distin- guish himself in war, like Pompey and Cfjesar, and, though upward of Hxty years of age, he chose rather to enter upon an undertaking B.C. 53. DEATH OF CRASSUS. 237 for which lie had no genius than to continue the pursuit tf wealth and influence at home. He crossed the Euphrates in B.C. 54, but, hesitating to proceed at once against Parthia, he gave the enemy time to assemble his forces, and returned to Syria without accom- plishing any thing of importance. He spent the winter in Syria, where, instead of exercising his troops and preparing for the en- Buing campaign, he plundered the temples, and employed his time in collecting money from every quarter. In the following spring (B.C. 53) he again crossed the Euphrates, and plunged into the sandy deserts of Mesopotamia. He trusted to the guidance of an Arabian chieftain, who promised to lead him by the shortest way to the enemy. But this man was in the pay of Surenas, the Par- thian general ; and when he had brought the Romans into the open plains of Mesopotamia, he seized a frivolous pretext, and rode off to inform Surenas that the Roman army was delivered into his hands. The Parrhians soon appeared. They worried the dense- ly-marshaled Romans with showers of arrows ; and by feigned re- treats, during which they continued to discharge their arrows, they led the Romans into disadvantageous positions. The son of Cras- sus, who had distinguished himself as one of Caesar's lieutenants in Gaul, was slain, and the Romans, after suffering great loss, retreat- ed to Carrhre, the Ilaran of Scripture. On the following day they continued their retreat; and Surenas, fearing that Crassus might after all make his escape, invited him to an interview. He was treacherously seized, and, in the scuttle which ensued, was slain by some unknown hand. His head was carried to the Parthian king Orodes, who caused melted gold to be poured into the mouth, say- ing, " Sate thyself now with that metal of which in life thon uert so greedy." Twenty thousand Roman troops were slain, and ten thousand taken prisoners, in this expedition, one of the most disas- trous in which the Romans were ever engaged. Only a small por- tion of the Roman army escaped to Syria under the command of L. Cassius Longinus, afterward one of Caesar's assassins, who had displayed considerable ability during the war, but whose advice -us had constantly refused to follow. The death of Crassus left Pompev and Cicsar alone at the head jf the state, and it became evident that sooner or later a struggle would take place between them for the supremacy. The death of Julia, in B.C. 54, to whom both her father and husband were strong- ly attached, broke a link which might have united them much lon- ger. Pompey considered that he had been the chief means of rais- ing Caesar to power, and he appeared long to have deemed it im- possible that the conqueror of Mithridates could be thrown into the shade by any popular leader. Such a result, however, was now im- 238 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXIV. minent. Cesar's brilliant victories in Gaul were in every body's mouth, and Pompey saw with ill-disguised mortification that ho was becoming the second person in the state. Though this did not lead him to break with Casar at once, it made him anxious to increase his power and influence, and he therefore now resolved, if possible, to obtain the Dictatorship. He accordingly used no ef- fort to put an end to the disturbances at Rome between Milo and Clodius in this year, in hopes that all parties would be willing to accede to his wishes in order to restore peace to the city. Milo Avas a candidate for the Consulship and Clodius for the Practorship. Each was attended by a band of hired ruffians ; battles took place between them daily in the Forum and the streets; all order and government were at an end. In such a state of things no elections could be held, and the confusion at length became downright an- archy, when Milo murdered Clodius on the 20th of January in the following year (B.C. 52). The two rivals had met near Bovil!a3, accompanied, as usual, by their armed followers. A fray ensued. The party of Milo proved the stronger, and Clodius took refuge in a house. But Milo attacked the house, dragged out Clodius, and having dispatched him, left him dead upon the road. His body was found by a Senator, carried to Rome, and exposed naked to the people. They were violently excited at the sight, and their feelings were still farther inflamed by the harangues of the Trib- unes. The benches and tables of the Senate-house were seized to make a funeral pile for their favorite ; and not only the Sen- ate-house, but several other public buildings, were reduced to ashes. As the riots still continued, the Senate had no longer any choice but to call in the assistance of Pompey. They therefore commis- sioned him to collect troops and put an end to the disturbances. Pompey, who had obtained the great object of his desires, obeyed with alacrity ; he was invested with the supreme power of the state by being elected sole Consul on the 2ath of February ; and. in or- der to deliver the city from Milo and his myrmidons, he brought forward laws against violence and bribery at elections. Milo was put upon his trial ; the court was surrounded with soldiers ; Cice- ro, who defended him, was intimidated, and Milo was condemned, and went into exile at Massilia.* Others shared the Fame fate, and peace was once more restored to the state. Pompey's jealousy of Caesar brought him into connection with the aristocratical party. After Julia's death he had married Cor- * Cicero sent to Milo at Massilia the oration which he meant to have delivered, the one which we .still have. Milo, after reading it, remarked, " I am glad it was not delivered, for I should then have been acquitted, and never have known the delicate flavor of these Massilian mullets." B.C.al. POMPEY AND C^SAK. 239 nelia, the daughter of Metellus Scipio, whom he macb his colleague on the first of August. His next step was to strike a blow at Cie- sar. He brought forward an old law that no one should become a candidate for a public office while absent, in order that Caesar might be obliged to resign his command, and to place himself in the power of his enemies at Rome, if he wished to obtain the Con- sulship a second time.* But the renewal of this enactment was so manifestly aimed at Caesar that his friends insisted he should be specially exempted from it ; and as Pompey was not yet prepared to break openly with him, he thought it more expedient to yield. At the same time, Pompey provided that he himself should remain in command of an army after his rival had ceased to have OIK-, by obtaining a senatus consultum, by which his government of the ISpains was prolonged for another five years. And, in case Cassar should obtain the Consulship, he caused a law to be enacted, in virtue of which no one could have a province till five years had elapsed from the time of his holding a public office. Swli were the precautions adopted against Caesar, the uselessness vf \\Lich time soon showed. In the following year (B.C. .51) Pompey declared himself still more openly on the side of the Senate; but still he shrank from supporting all the violent measures of the Consul M. Claudius Mar- cellus, who proposed to send a successor to Caesar, on the plea that the war in Gaul was finished, and to deprive him of the privilege of becoming a candidate for the Consulship in his absence. The Consuls for the next year (u.c. 50), L. JEmilius Paullus and C. Claudius Marcellus, and the powerful Tribune C. Curio, were all reckoned devoted partisans of Pompey and the Senate. Caesar, however, gained over Panllus and Curio by large bribes, and with a lavish hand distributed immense sums of money among the lead- ing men of Kome. It was proposed in the Senate by the Consul C. Marcellus that Caesar should lay down his command by the 13th of November. But this was an unreasonable demand; Caesar's government had upward of another year to run ; and if he had come to Rome as a private man to sue for the Consulship, there can bs no doubt that his life would have been sacrificed. Cato had declared that he would bring Caesar to trial as soon as he laid down his command; but the trial would have been only a mock- ery, for Pompey was in the neighborhood of the city at the head of an army, and would have overawed the judges by his soldiery as at Milo's trial. The Tribune Curio consequently interposed his veto radar's government would expire at the end of u.c. 49, and he had therefore determined to obtain the Consulship for B.C. 43, since otherwise he would become n i>viv:vte person. 240 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXXIV. upon the proposition of Marcellus. The Senate, anxious to dimin- ish the number of his troops, had, under pretext of a war with the Parthians, ordered that Pompey and Caesar should each furnish a legion to be sent into the East. The legion which Pompey intend- ed to devote to this service was one he had lent to Caesar in B.C. 53, and which he now accordingly demanded back ; and, although Ca3sar saw that he should thus be deprived of two legions, which tvould probably be employed against himself, he complied with the request. Upon their arrival in Italy, they were not sent to the East, but were ordered to pass the winter at Capua. Caesar took up his quarters at Ravenna, the last town in his province bordering upon Italy. Though war seemed inevitable, Csesar still showed himself will- ing to enter into negotiations with the aristocracy, and according- ly sent Curio with a letter addressed to the Senate, in which he expressed his readiness to resign his command if Pompey would do the same. Curio arrived at Rome on the 1st of January, i?.c. 49, the day on which the new Consuls, L. Cornelius Lentulus and C. Claudius Marcellus, entered upon their office. It was with great difficulty that the Tribunes, M. Antonius, afterward the well-known Triumvir, and Q. Cassius Longinus, forced the Senate to allow the letter to be read. After a violent debate, the motion of Scipio, Pompey's father-in-law, was carried, "that Ctesar should disband his army by a certain day, and that if he did not do so he should be regarded as an enemy of the state." On the Gth of January the Senate passed the decree investing the Consuls with dictatorial power. Antonius and Cassius, considering their lives no longer safe, fled from the city in disguise to Caesar's army, and called upon him to protect the inviolable persons of the Tribunes. This was the crisis. The Senate intrusted the management of the war to Pompey, determined that fresh levies of troops should be held, and voted a sum of money from the public treasury to Pompey. Pompey all along had no apprehensions as to the war; he thought it impossible that C;vsar should ever march against him ; he was convinced that his great fame would cause a multitude of troops to flock around him whenever he Avished. In addition to this, he had been deceived as to the disposition of Caesar's troops: he had been led to believe that they were ready to desert their general at the first opportunity. Consequently, when the war broke out, Pom- pey had scarcely any troops except the two legions which he had obtained from Cresar, and on the fidelity of which he could by no means relv. Marcus Brutiis. CHAPTER XXXV. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND CIVIL WAR TO CESAR'S DEATH. B.C. 49-44. As soon as Caasar learned at Ravenna the last resolution of tho S-;i;it'', he assembled his soldiers, informed them of the wrongs he had sustained, and called upon them to support him. Finding them quite willing to support him, he crossed the Rubicon,* which separated his province from Italy, and occupied Ariminum, where he met with the Tribunes. He commenced his enterprise with only one legion, consisting of 5000 foot-soldiers and 300 horse; but others had orders to follow him from Transalpine Gaul, and he was well aware of the importance of expedition, that the enemy might have no time to complete their preparations. Though it was the middle of winter, he pushed on with the utmost rapidity, and such was the popularity of his cause in Italy, that city after city opened its gates to him, and his march was like a triumphal progress. Arretium, Pisaurum, Fanum, Ancona, Iguvium, and Auximum fell * The, crossing of this stream wan in reality a declaration of war against tho Republic, and latc.r writers relate that upon arriving at the Rubicon Caesar long he.-itatcil whether he should take, this irrevocable st'-p, and that, after pondering many hours, he at length exclaimed, "The die is east," and plunged into tho river. Hut then; is not a word of this i- i narrative. 242 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXV into his hands. These successes caused the utmost consternation at Rome ; it was reported that Caesar's cavalry were already at the gates; a general panic seized the Senate, and they fled from the city without even taking with them the money from the public treasury. Caesar continued his victorious march through Picenum till he came to Corfmium, which M. Domitius Ahenobarbus l.cl 1 with a strong force ; but, as Pompey did not march to his assist- ance, Domitius was unable to maintain the place, and fell himself into Caesar's hands, together with several other Senators and dis- tinguished men. Caesar, with the same clemency which he dis- played throughout the whole of the Civil War, dismissed them all uninjured. lie then hastened southward in pursuit of Pompey, who had now resolved to abandon Italy. He reached Brundusimn before Caesar, but had not sailed when the latter arrived before the town. Caesar straightway laid siege to the place, but Pompey abandoned it on the 1 7th of March, and embarked for Greece. Caesar was unable to follow him fur want of ships. He accordingly marched back from Brundnsium, ad repaired to Rome, having, thus in three months- become the master of the whole of Italy. The only opposition whit-h Caesar met with in Rome was from L. Me tell as the Tribune, who attempted to prevent him from enter- ing the public treasury, though the people had given him permis- sion to take from it a much money as he pleased. " Stand aside young man," said Caesar; "it is easier for me- to do than to say/' After remaining in the neighborhood of Rome for a short time, he set out for Spain, leaving M. Lepidus in charge of the city, and M. Antonius in command of the troops in Italv. Jle sent Curio to drive Cato out of Sicily, Q.Valerius to take possession of Sardinia,, and C. Antonius to occupy Illyricum. Curio and Valerius ob- tained possession of Sicily and Sardinia without opposition; and the former then passed over into Africa, which was in possession of the Pompeian party. Here, however, >ie encountered strong op- position, and at length was defeated, and lost his life in a battle with Juba, king of Mauretania, who supported P. Atins Varus, the Pompeian commander. C. Antonius also met with ill success in Illyricum, for his army was defeated, and lie himself taken prisoner. These disasters were more than counterbalanced by Caesar's victo- ries in the mean time in Spain. Leaving Rome about the middle of April, he found, on his arrival in Gaul, that Massilia refused to submit to him. He besieged the place forthwith, but, unable trr take it immediately, he left C. Trebonius and D. Brutus, with part of his troops, to prosecute the siege, and continued his march to Spain. On the approach of Caesar, L. Afranius and M. Petreius, the Hentennnts of Pompey in Spain, united their forces, and took B.C. 49. CIVIL WAR. 243 up a strong position near the town of Ilcrdu (Lerida, in Catalonia), on the right bank of the Sicoris (Scf/rc). After experiencing great difficulties at first and some reverses, Cucsar at length reduced Afranius and Petreius to such straits that they were obliged to stir- render. They themselves were dismissed uninjured, part of their troops disbanded, and the remainder incorporated among Ctesar's troops. The conqueror then proceeded to march against Varro, who commanded two legions in the Farther Province ; but. after tli2 victory over Afranius and Petrcius, there was no army in Spain capable of offering resistance, and Varro accordingly surrendered to Caesar on his arrival at Corduba (Cordova). Having thus sub- dued all Spain in forty days, he returned to Gaul. Massilia had not yet yielded; but the siege had been prosecuted with so much vigor, that the inhabitants were compelled to surrender the town soon after he appeared before the Avails. During his absence in Spain Caesar was appointed Dictator by the Prajtor M. Lepidus, who had been empowered to do so by a law passed for the purpose. On his return to Rome Caesar as- sumed the new dignity, but laid it down again at the end of eleven dnvs, after holding the Consular Comitia, in which he himself and P. Servilius Vatia were elected Consuls for the next year. But during these eleven days he caused some very important laws to be passed. The first was intended to relieve debtors, but at the same time to protect, to a great extent, the rights of creditors, lie next restored all exiles; and, finally, he conferred the full citizen- ship upon the Transpadani, who had hitherto held only the Latin franchise. After laying down the Dictatorship, Cassar went in December to Brundusium, where he had previously ordered his troops to assem- ble. He had lost many men in the long march from Spain, and also from sickness arising from their passing the autumn in the south of Italy. Pompey during the summer had raised a large force in Greece, Egypt, and the East, the scene of his former glory. He had collected an army consisting of nine legions of Roman cit- izens, a. id an auxiliary force of cavalry and infantry ; and his forces far surpassed in number those which Caesar had assembled at Brundusium. Moreover, Pompey's fleet, under the command of Bibulus, Caesar's colleague in his first Consulship, completely commanded the sea. Still Caesar ventured to set sail from Brun- dusium on the 4th of January, and he arrived the next day in safe- ty on the coast of Epirus. In consequence, however, of the small number of his ships, he was able to carry over only seven legions, which, from the causes previously mentioned, had been so thinned as to amount only to 1">,000 foot and 500 horse. After landing 244 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAI>. XXXV. this force he sent back his ships to bring over the remainder; but part of the fleet was intercepted in its return by M. Bibulus, who kept u}) such a strict watch along the coast that the rest of Caesar's army was obliged for the present to remain at Brundusium. Caesar was thus in a critical position, in the midst of the enemy's country, and cut off from the rest of his army ; but lie knew that he could thoroughly rely on his men, and therefore immediately commenced acting on the offensive. After gaining possession of Oricum and Apollonia, he hastened northward, in hopes of surprising Dyrrha- cliiuin, where all Pompcy's stores were deposited ; but Pompey, by rapid marches, reached this town before him, and both armies then encamped opposite to each other, Pompey on the right, and Caesar on the left bank of the River Apsus. Caesar was now greatly in want of re-enforcements, and such was his impatience that he at- tempted to sail across the Adriatic in a small boat. The waves ran so high that the sailors wanted to turn back, till Caesar discov- ered himself, telling them that they carried Caesar and his fortunes. They then toiled on, but the storm at length compelled them to re- turn, and with difficulty they reached again the coast of Greece. Shortly afterward M. Antonius succeeded in bringing over the re- mainder of the army. Pompey meantime had retired to some high ground near Dyrrhachium, and, as he would not venture a battle with Caesar's veterans, Caesar began to blockade him in his position, and to draw lines of cireumvallation of an extraordinary' extent. They were nearly completed when Pompey forced a pas- sage through them, and drove back Caesar's legions with considera- ble loss. Caesar thus found himself compelled to retreat from his present position, and accordingly commenced his march for Thes- saly. Pompey 's policy of avoiding a general engagement with Caesar's veterans till he could place more reliance upon his own troops was undoubtedly a wise one, and had been hitherto crowned with success ; but he was prevented from carrying out the prudent plan which lie had formed for conducting the campaign. His camp was filled with a multitude of Roman nobles, unacquainted with war, and anxious to return to their estates in Italy and to the lux- uries of the capital. His unwillingness to fight was set down tc love of power and anxiety to keep the Senate in sul^ection. Stung with the reproaches with which he was assailed, and elated in some degree by his victory at Dyrrhachium, he resolved to bring the contest to an issue. Accordingly, he offered battle to Caesar in the plain of Pharsalus, or Pharsalia, in Thcssaly. The numbers on either side were very unequal: Pompey had 45,000 foot-sol- diers and 7000 horse, Caesar 22,000 foot-soldiers and 1000 horse. The battle, which was fought on the i)th of August, B.C. 48, ao B.C. 48. BATTLE OF PIIARSALIA. LM:> cording to the old calendar,* ended in the total defeat of Pompey's army. The battle of Pharsalia decided the fate of Pompey and the Re- public. Porapey was at once driven to despair. He made no at- tempt to rally his forces, though he might still have collected a considerable army; but, regarding every thing as lost, he hurried to tlu sea-coast with a few friends. He embarked on board a merchant-ship at the mouth of the River Peneus, and first sailed to Lesbos, where he took on board his wife Cornelia, and from them e made for Cyprus. He now determined to seek refuge in Egypt, as he had been the means of restoring to his kingdom Ptolemy Au- letes, the father of the young Egyptian monarch. On his death in B.C. 51 Ptolemy Aulctes had left directions that his son should reign jointly with his elder sister Cleopatra. But their joint reign did not last long, for Ptolemy, or, rather, Pothinus and Achillas, his chief advisers, expelled his sister from the throne. Cleopatra collected a force in Syrfci, with which she invaded Egypt. The generals of Ptolemy were encamped opposite her, near Alexandria, when Pompey arrived off the coast and craved the protection of the young king. This request threw Pothinus and Achillas into great difficulty, for there were many of Pompey's old soldiers in the Egyptian army, and they feared he would become master of Egypt. They therefore determined to put him to death. Accordingly, they sent out a small boat, took Pompey on board with three or four at- tendants, and rowed for the shore. His wife and friends watched him from the ship, anxious to see in what manner he would be re- ceived by the king, who was standing on the edge of the sea with his troops. Just as the boat reached the shore, and Pompey was in the act of rising from his seat in order to step on land, he was stabbed in the back by Septimius, who had formerly been one of his centurions. Achillas and the rest then drew their swords; whereupon Pompey, without uttering a word, covered his face with his toga, and calmly submitted to his fate. He had just completed his 58th year. His head was cut off, and his body, which was cast naked upon the shore, was buried by his freedman Philippus, who had accompanied him from the ship. The head was brought to Ceesar when he arrived in Egypt soon afterward, but he turned away from the sight, shed tears at the untimely end of his rival, and put his murderers to death. When news of the battle of Pharsalia reached Rome, various laws were passed which conferred supreme power upon Caesar. Though absent, he was nominated Dictator a second time, and for a whole year. He appointed M. Antonius his master of the Horse, * In :c -.lity on the Gth of Juno. 24G HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXV! and entered upon the office in September of this year (B.C. 48). He was also nominated to the Consulship for the next five years, though he did not avail himself of this privilege; and he was in- vested with the tribunicial power for life. Caesar went to Egypt in pursuit of Pornpcv, and upon his arrival there he became involved in a war, which detained him several months, and gave the remains of the Pompeian party time to rally and to make fresh preparations for continuing the struggle. The war in Egypt, usually called the Alexandrine War, arose from Cae- sar's resolving to settle the disputes respecting the succession to the kingdom. He determined that Cleopatra, whose fascinations com- pletely won his heart, and her brother Ptolemy, should reign in common, according to the provisions of their father's will; but as this decision was opposed by the guardians of the young king, a Avar broke out between them and Caesar, in which he was for somo time exposed to great danger on account of the small number of his troops. But, having received re-enfarcements, he finally pre- vailed, and placed Cleopatra and her younger brother on the throne, the elder having perished in the course of the contest. Cleopatra afterward joined Caesar at Rome, and bore him a son named Caesarion. After bringing the Alexandrine War to a close, toward the end of March, B.C. 47, Caesar marched through Syria into Pontus in or- der to attack Pharnaces, the son of the celebrated Mithridates, who had defeated Cn. Domitius Calvinus, one of Caesar's lieutenants. This war, however, did not detain him long; for Pharnaces, ven- turing to come to an open battle with the Dictator, was utterly de- feated on the 2d of August near Zcla. It was in reference to this victory that Caesar sent the celebrated laconic dispatch to the Sen- ate, Vcni, ridi, vici, " I came, I saw, I conquered." lie then pro- ceeded to Rome, caused himself to be appointed Dictator for an- other year, and nominated M.yEmilius Lepidus his Master of the Horse. At the same time he quelled a formidable mutiny of his troops which had broken out in Campania. Caesar did not remain in Rome more than two or three month-. With his usual activity and energy he set out to Africa before the end of the year (B.C. 47), in order to carry on the war against Scipio and Cato, who had collected a large army in that country. Their forces were far greater than those which Ctesar could bring against them ; but he had too much reliance on his own genius to be alarmed by mere disparity of numbers. At first he was in con- siderable diiiiculiies ; but, having been joined by some of his other legions, he was able to prosecute the campaign with more vigor, and finally brought it to a close by the battle of Thapsus, on the B.C. 47. DEATH OF CATO AT UTICA. 247 Gth of April, B.C. 40, in which the Pompeian army was completely defeated. All Africa now submitted to Cajsar with the exception of Utica, which Cato commanded. The inhabitants saw that re- sistance was hopeless ; and Cato, who was a sincere Republican, resolved to die rather than submit to Caesar's despotism. After spending the greater part of the night in perusing Plato's Phado, u dialogue on the immortality of the soul, he stabbed himself. His friends, hearing him fall, ran up, found him bathed in blood, and, while he was fainting, dressed his wounds. When, however, he recovered feeling, he tore off the bandages, and so died. Caesar returned to Rome by the end of July. He was now un- disputed master of the Roman world. Great apprehensions were entertained by his enemies lest, notwithstanding his former clem- ency, he should imitate Marius and Sulla, and proscribe all his op- ponents. But these fears were perfectly groundless. A love of cruelty was no part of Ca^ar's nature ; and, with a magnanimity which victors rarely show, and least of all those in civil wars, he freely forgave all who had borne arms against him, and declared that he should make no difference between Pompeians and Casar- ians. His object was now to allay animosities, and to secure the lives and property of all the citizens of his empire. As soon as the news of his African victory reached Rome a public thanksgiv- ing of forty days was decreed in his honor ; the Dictatorship was bestowed upon him for ten years ; and the Censorship, under the new title of "Pracfectus Morum," for three years. Crcsar had never yet enjoyed a triumph; and, as he had now no farther ene- mies to meet, he availed himself of the opportunity of celebrating his victo: ics in Gaul, K.tiypt, Pontus, and Africa, by four magnificent triumph -. None of tncs?, however, were in honor of his successes in the civil war; and. consequently his African triumph was to commemorate his victory over Juba, and not over Scipio and Cato. These triumphs were followed by largesses of corn and money to the people and the soldiers, by public banquets, and all sorts of en- tertainments. Cajsar now proceeded to correct the various evils which had crept into ihc state, and to obtain the enactment of several laws suitable to the altered condition of the commonwealth. lie at- tempted, by severe sumptuary laws, to restrain the extravagance which pervaded all classes of society. But the most important of his changes this year (u.c. 40) was the reformation of the Calen- dar, which was a real benefit to his country and the civilized world, and which he accomplished in his character as Pontifex Maximus. The regulation of the Roman calendar had always been intrusted to the College of Pontiffs, who had bceji accustomed to lengthen 248 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXV or shorten the year at their pleasure for political purposes ; and the confusion had at length become so great that the Roman year was three months behind the real time. To remedy this serious evil, Caesar added 90 days to the current year, and thus made it consist of 445 days ; and he guarded against a repetition of similar errors for the future by adapting the year to the sun's course. In the midst of these labors Ca;sar was interrupted by intelli- gence of a formidable insurrection which had broken out in Spain, where the remains of the Pompeian party had again collected a large army under the command of Pompey's sons, Cneius and Sex- tus. Cccsar set out for Spain at the end of B.C. 46. With his usual activity he arrived at Obulco, near Corduba, in 27 days from the time of his leaving Rome. He found the enemy able to offer stronger opposition than he had anticipated ; but he brought the war to a close by the battle of Munda, on the 17th of March, B.C. 45, in which he entirely defeated the enemy. It was, however, a hard-fought battle : Ctesar's troops were at first driven back, and were only rallied by their general's exposing his own person, like a common soldier, in the front line of the battle. Cn. Pompeius was killed shortly afterward, but Sextus made good his escape. The settlement of the affairs in Spain detained Cresar in the province some months longer, and he consequently did not reach Rome till September, At the beginning of October he entered the city in triumph on account of his victories in Spain, although the victory had been gained over Roman citizens. The Senate received him with the most servile flattery. They had in his absence voted a public thanksgiving of fifty days, and they now vied with each other in paying him every kind of adulation and homage. He was to wear, on all public occasions, the triumphal robe ; he was to re- ceive the title of "Father of his Country;" statues of him were to bo placed in all the temples ; his portrait was to be struck on coins; the month of Quintilis was to receive the name of Julius in his honor, and he was to be raised to a rank among the gods. But there were still more important decrees than these, which were in- tended to legalize his power, and confer upon him the whole gov- ernment of the Roman world. He received the title of Imperator for life ; he was nominated Consul for the next ten years, and both Dictator and Prtcfectus Morum for life ; his person Avas declared sacred ; a guard of Senators and Knights was appointed to protect him, and the whole Senate took an oath to watch over his safety. If we now look at the way in which Caesar exerted his sovereign power, it can not be denied that he used it in the main for the good of his country. He still pursued his former merciful course : no proscriptions or executions took place ; and ho began to revolve vast B C. 44. CAESAR'S RULE. 249 schemes for the benefit of the Roman world. At the same time he was obliged to reward his followers, and for that reason he greatly increased the number of senators and magistrates, so that there were 1C Praetors, 40 Quaestors, and G JEdiles, and new members were added to the priestly colleges. Among other plans of inter- nal improvement, he proposed to frame a digest of all the Roman laws, to establish public libraries, to drain the Pomptine marshes, to enlarge the harbor of Ostia, and to dig a canal through the isth- mus of Corinth. To protect the boundaries of the Roman Empire, fie meditated expeditions against the Parthians and the barbarous tribes on the Danube, and had already begun to make preparations for his departure to the East. In the midst of these vast projects he entered upon the last year of his life, r..c. 44, and his fifth Con- sulship and Dictatorship, He had made M. Antonius his col- league in the Consulship, and M. Lcpidtis the Master of the Horse. He had for some time past resolved to preserve the supreme power in his family; and, as he had no legitimate children, he had fixed upon his great-nephew Octavius (afterward the Emperor Augus- tus) as his successor. Possessing royal power, he now wished to obtain the title of king, and accordingly prevailed upon his col- league Antonius to offer him the diadem in public on the festival of the Lupercalia (the 15th of February). But the very name of king had long been hateful at Rome ; and the people displayed such an evident dislike to the proposal that it was dropped for the present. The conspiracy against Ctcsar's life had been formed as early as the beginning of the year. It had been set on foot by C. Cassius Longinus, a personal enemy of Caesar's, and more than sixty per- sons were privy to it. Private hatred alone seems to have been the motive of Cassius, and probably of several others. Many of them had taken an active part in the war against Caesar, and had not only been forgiven by him, but raised to offices of rank and honor. Among others was M. Junius Brutus, who had been par- doned by Ca3sar after the battle of Pharsalin, and had since been treated almost as his son. In this very year Caesar had made him Prcetor, and held out to him the prospect of the Consulship. Bru- tus, like Cato, seems to have been a sincere Republican, and Cas- sius persuaded him to join the conspiracy, and imitate his great ancestor who freed them from the Tarquins. It was now arranged to assasinate the Dictator in the Senate-house on the Ides or loth of March. Rumors of the plot got abroad, and Caesar was strongly urged not to attend the Senate. But he disregarded the warnings which were given him. As he entered, the Senate rose to do him honor; and when he had taken his seat, the conspirators pressed 250 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXXV. around him as if to support the prayer of Tillius Cimber, who en- treated the Dictator to recall his brother from banishment. "When Cajsar began to show displeasure at their importunity, Tillius seized him by his toga, which was the signal for attack. Casca struck tho first blow, and the other conspirators bared their weapons. Cajsar defended himself till he saw Brutus had drawn his sword, and then exclaiming. "And thou, too, Brutus!" he drew his toga ever his head, and fell pierced with thrce-and-twenty wounds at the foot of Pompey's statue. (.Join of Julius Caesar. Caesar's death was undoubtedly a loss not only to the Roman people, but the whole civilized world. The Republic was utterly lost. The Roman world was now called to go through many years of disorder ami bloodshed, till it rested again under the supremacy of Augustus. The last, days of the Republic had come, and its only hope of peace and security was under the strong hand of mil- itary power. Ca;sar was in his 56th year at the time of his death. His per- sonal appearance was noble and commanding; he was tall in stat- ure, of a fair complexion, and with black eyes full of expression. He never wore a beard, and in the latter part of his life his head was bald. Ilis constitution was originally delicate, and he was twice attacked by epilepsy while transacting public business ; but, by constant exercise and abstemious living, he had acquired strong and vigorous health, and could endure almost any amount of exer- tion. He took pains with his person, and was considered to be ef- feminate in his dress. Caesar was probably the greatest man of antiquity. He was at one and the same timo a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, a historian, a pliilologer, a mathematician, and an architect. He was equally fitted to excel in every thing, and has given proofs that he would have surpassed almost all other men in any sulject to which he devoted the energies of his extraordinary mind. One fact places his genius for war in a most striking light. Till his 4()th year, when he went as Propraetor into Spain, he hnd been almost entire! v engaged in civil lifo and his military expo- B.C. 44. CHARACTER OF CAESAR. 251 riencc must have been of the most limited kind. Most of the greatest generals in the history of the world have been distinguished at an early age : Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Frederick of Prus- sia, and Napoleon Bonaparte, gained some of their most brilliant victories under the age of 30 ; but Casar, from the age of 23 to 40, had seen nothing of war, and, notwithstanding, appears all at once is one of the greatest generals that the world has ever seen. Statue of a Roman, representing the Tog* M. Antonius: CHAPTER XXXVL FROM THE DEATH OF CJESAR TO THE BATTLE OF PIIILIl'l'I. B.C. 44-42. WHEN the bloody deed had been finished, Brutus and the othei inspirators rushed into the forum, proclaiming that they had killed the Tyrant, and calling the people to join them ; but they met with no response, and, finding alone averted looks, they retired to the Capitol. Here they were joined by Cicero, who had not been privy to the conspiracy, but was now one of the first to justify the mur- der. Meantime the fiiends of Crcsar were not idle. M. Lepidus, the Master of the Horse, who Avas in the neighborhood of the city, inarched into the Campus Martins in the night; and M.Antony hastened to the house of the Dictator, and took possession of his papers and treasures. But both parties feared to come to blows. A compromise was agreed to ; and at a meeting of the Senate it was determined that Caesar's murderers should not be punished, but, on the other hand, that all his regulations should remain in force, 'that the provisions of his will should be carried into effect, and that he should be honored with a public funeral. The con- B.C. 44, G^ESAli'S WILL. OCTAVIUS. 2;">3 spirators descended from the Capitol ; and, as a proof of reconcili- ation, Cassius supped with Antony and Brutus with Lepidus. Tliis reconciliation was only a pretense. Antony aspired to suc- ceed to the power of the Dictator ; and, to rouse the popular fury against the conspirators, Caesar's will was immediately made public. He left as his heir his grcat-nephe\v Octavius, a youth of 18, the son of Atia, the daughter of his sister Julia. lie bequeathed con- siderable legacies to his murderers. He gave his magnificent gar- dens beyond the Tiber to the public, and to every Roman citizen he bequeathed the sum of 300 sesterces (between 2 and 3 ster- ling). When this became known a deep feeling of sorrow for the untimely fate of their benefactor seized the minds of the people. Their feelings were raised to the highest point two or three clays afterward, when the funeral took place. The body was to be burned in the Campus Martins, but it was previously carried to the forum, where Antony, according to custom, pronounced the funeral ora- tion over it. After relating the exploits of the great Dictator, re- citing his will, and describing his terrible death, he lifted up the blood-stained robe which Caesar had worn in the Senate-house, and which had hitherto covered the corpse, and pointed out the numerous wounds which disfigured the body. At this sight a yell of indignation was raised, and the mob rushed in every direction to tear the murderers to pieces. The conspirators fled for their lives from the city. The poet Helvius Cinna, being mistaken for the Praetor Cinna, one of the assassins, was sacrificed on the spot before the mistake could be explained. Antony was now master of Rome. Being in possession of Caa- sar's papers, he was able to plead the authority of the Dictator for every thing which he pleased. The conspirators hastened to take possession of the provinces which Caesar had assigned to them. Dec. Brutus repaired to Cisalpine Gaul, M. Brutus to Macedonia, and Cassius to Syria. Antony now made a disposition of the provinces, taking Cisalpine Gaul for himself, and giving Macedonia to his brother C. Antonius, and Syria to Dolabella. Meantime a new actor appeared upon the stage. Octavius was at Apollonia, a town on the coast of Illyricum, at the time of his uncle's death. Ctesar had determined to take his nephew with him in his expedition against the Parthians, and had accordingly sent him to Apollonia, where a camp had been formed, that he might pursue his military studies. The soldiers now offered to follow him to Italy and avenge their leader's death, but he did not yet venture to take this decisive step. He determined, however, to sail at once to Italy, accompanied by only a few friends. Upon arriving at Brundusimn he heard of the will of the Dictator, and 254 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXXVI. was saluted by the soldiers as Caesar. As the adopted heir of his uncle liis proper name was now C. Julius Caesar Octavianus, and by the last of these names we shall henceforth call him. He now made up his mind to proceed to Home and claim his uncle's inher- itance, in opposition to the advice of his mother, who dreaded this dangerous honor for her son. Upon arriving at Rome lie declared before the Praetor, in the usual manner, that he accepted the in- heritance, and he then promised the people to pay the money be- queathed to them. He even ventured to claim of Antony the treasures of his uncle ; but, as the latter refused to give them up, he sold the other property, and even his own estates, to discharge all the legacies. Antony threw every obstacle in his way ; but the very name of Caesar worked wonders, and the liberality of the young man gained the hearts of the people. He had, indeed, a dif- ficult part to play. He could not join the murderers of his uncle ; and yet Antony, their greatest enemy, was also his most dangerous foe. In these difficult circumstances the youth displayed a pru- dence and a wisdom which baffled the most experienced politicians. Without committing himself to any party, he professed a warm at- tachment to the Senate. Cicero had once more taken an active part in public affairs; andOctavian, with that dissimulation which he practiced throughout his life, completely deceived the veteran orator. On the 2d of September Cicero delivered in the Senate the first of his orations against Antony, which, in imitation of those of Demosthenes against Philip, are known by the name of the Phil- ippics. Antony was absent at the time, but shortly afterward at- tacked the orator in unmeasured terms. Cicero replied in the Second Philippic, one of the most violent invectives ever written. It was not spoken, but was published soon after Antony had quitted Kome. Meantime the emissaries of Octavian had been sounding the dis- position of the soldiers, and had already enlisted for him a consid- erable number of troops in various parts of Italy. Antony saw that the power was slipping from under his feet. Two of the le- gions which he had sent from Kpirus passed over to Octavian ; and, in order to keep the remainder under his standard, and to secure the north of Italy to his interests, Antony now proceeded to Cisal* pine Gaul, which had boon previously granted to him by the Sen- ate. Upon entering the province toward the end of November, Dec. Brutus threw himself into Mutina (Modcna\ to which Antony laid siege. Soon after Antony's departure Cicero prevailed upon the Semite to declare Antony a public enemy, and to intrust to the young Oc- tavian the conduct of the Avar against him. Cicero was now at the B.C. 43. OCTAVIAN'S STRUGGLE FOR POWER. 255 height of his glory. His activity was unceasing, and in the twelve remaining "Philippics" he encouraged the Senate and the people to prosecute the war with vigor. The two new Consuls (B.C. 43) were A. Hirtius and C. Vibius Pansn, both of whom had been des- ignated by the late Dictator. As soon as they had entered upon their office, Hirtius, accompanied bv Octavian, marched into Cis- alpine Gaul, while Pansa remained in the city to levy troops. For some weeks no movement of importance took place in cither army ; but when Pansa set out to join his colleague and Octavian, Antony inarched southward, attacked him at Forum Gallorum, near Bono- ma (Bologna), and gained a victory over him (April 14). Pansa was mortally wounded; but Hirtius retrieved this disaster by sud- denly attacking Antony the same evening on his return to the camp at Mutina. A few days afterward (April 27th) a more decisive battle took place before Mutina. Antony was defeated with great loss, but Hirtius fell in leading an assault on the besiegers' camp. The death of the two Consuls left Octavian the sole command ; and so timely was their removal that he was accused by many of murdering them. Antony now found it impossible to continue the siege of Mutina, but he retreated in good order northward, crossed the Alps, and was well received in Farther Gaul by Lepidus, who had promised him support. Meantime the good understanding between Octavian and the Senate had come to an end. The latter, being resolved to prevent him from obtaining any farther power, gave the command of the Consular armies to D.Brutus; and Cicero talked of remov- ing the boy. But the "boy" soon showed the Semite thr.t he was their master. lie gained the confidence of the soldiers, who gladly followed the heir of C;vsar to Koine. Though only 20 years of age, he demanded of the Senate the Consulship. At first they at- tempted to evade his demand ; but his soldiers were encamped in the Campus Martins, and in the month of August ho was elected Consul with his cousin Q. Pedius. The first act of his Consulship showed that he had completely broken with the Senate. His col- league proposed a law declaring all the murderers of Caesar to be outlaws. Octavian then quitted Rome to march professedly against Antony, leaving Pedius in charge of the city ; but it soon appeared that he had come to an understanding with Antony, for he had hardly entered Etruria before the unwilling Senate were compelled, upon the proposal of Pedius, to repeal the sentence of outlawry against Antony and Lepidus. These two were now descending the Alps at the head of 17 legions. Octavian was advancing north- ward with a formidable army. Between two such forces the situa- tion of P. Brutus was hopeless. He was deserted by his r wn 256 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXX VI troops, and fled to Aquileia, intending to cross over to Macedonia, but was put to death in the former place by order of Antony. Lepidus, who acted as mediator between Antony and Octavian, now arranged a meeting between them on a small island near Bo- nonia, formed by the waters of the River Rhenus, a tributary of the Po. The interview took place near the end of November. It was arranged that the government of the Roman world should be divided between the three for a period of five years, under the title of "Triumvirs for settling the affairs of the Republic."* Octavian received Sicily, Sardinia, and Africa ; Antony the two Gauls, with the exception of the Narbonese district, which, with Spain, was as- signed to Lepidus. Octavian and Antony were to prosecute the war against Brutus and Cassius, who were in possession of the eastern provinces. Lepidus was to receive the Consulship for the following year, with the charge of Italy. The Triumvirs next proceeded to imitate the example of Sulla by drawing up a Proscription a list of persons whose lives were to be sacrificed and property confiscated. But they had not Sulla's excuse. He returned to Italy exasperated to the highest degree by the murder of his friends and the personal insults he had re- ceived. The Triumvirs, out of a cold-blooded policy, resolved to remove every one whose opposition they feared or whose property they coveted. In drawing up the fatal list, they sacrificed without scruple their nearest relatives and friends. To please Antony, Octavian gave up Cicero ; Antony, in return, surrendered his own uncle, L. Crcsar; and Lepidus sacrificed his own brother Paullus. As many as 300 Senators and 2000 Equites were entered on the lists. As soon as the Triumvirs had made their secret arrangements they marched toward Rome. Hitherto they had published the names of only 17 of the Proscribed ; but the city was in a state of the utmost alarm, and it was with difficulty that Peditis could pre- serve the peace. So great were his anxiety and fatigue that he died the night before the entry of the Triumvirs into the city. They marched into Rome at the head of their legions, and filled all the public places with their soldiery. No attempt at resistance was made. A law was proposed and carried conferring upon the Tri- umvirs the title and powers they had assumed. The work of butchery then commenced. Lists after lists of the Proscribed were then published, each more numerous than the former. The soldiers hunted after the victims, cut off their heads, and brought them to the authorities to prove their claims to the blood-money. Slaves were rewarded for betraying their masters, and whoever har- * Triumviri Reipublicce constituent! co~ B.C. 43. MURDER OF CICERO 257 bored any of the Proscribed was punished with death. Terror reigned throughout Italy. No one knew whose turn would come next. Cicero was included in the first 17 victims of the Proscription. He was residing in his Tusculan villa with his brother Quintus, who urged him to escape to Brutus in Macedonia. They reached Astura, a small island off Antinm, when Quintus ventured to Rome to obtain a supply of money, of which they were in need. Here he was apprehended, together with his son, and both were put to death. The orator again embarked, and coasted along to Formiae, where he landed at his villa, resolving no longer to fly from his fate. After spending a night in his own house, his attendants, hearing that the soldiers were close at hand, forced him to enter a litter, and hurried him through the woods toward the shore, distant a mile from his house. As they were passing onward they were overtaken by their pursuers, and were preparing to defend their master with their lives; but Cicero commanded them to desist, and, stretching his head out of the litter, called upon his executioners to strike. They instantly cut off his head and hands, which Avcre carried to Rome. Fulvia, the widow of Clodius and now the wife of Antony, gloated her eyes with the sight, and even thrust a hair- pin through his tongue. Antony ordered the head to be nailed to the Rostra, which had so often witnessed the triumphs of the ora- tor. Thus died Cicero, in the 64th year of his age. He had not sufficient firmness of character to cope with the turbulent times in which his lot was cast, but as a man he deserves our admiration and love. In the midst of almost universal corruption he remained uncontaminated. He was an affectionate father, a faithful friend, and a kind master. Many of the Proscribed escaped from Italy, and took refuge with Sextus Pompey in Sicily, and with Brutus and Cassius in the East. After the death of Caesar, the Senate appointed Sextus Pompey to the command of the Republican fleet. He had become master of Sicily ; his fleet commanded the Mediterranean ; and Rome began to suffer from want of its usual supplies of corn. It was arranged that Octavian should attempt the conquest of Sicily, while Antony was preparing for the campaign in the East. A fleet under Salvi* dienus Rufus was sent against Pompey, but was defeated by the latter in the Straits of Sicily, in sight of Octavian. But the war against Brutus and Cassius was more urgent, and accordingly Oc- tavian and Antony sailed shortly afterward to the East, leaving Pompey undisputed master of the sea. On quitting Italy, Brutus had first gone to Athens. The re- mains of the Pompeian legions, which continued in Greece aftei Q 258 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXXVI. the battle of Pharsalia, gathered round him -, Hortensius, the gov- ernor of Macedonia, acknowledged him as his successor; and C. Antonius, whom his hrother had sent over to take the command of the province, was obliged to surrender to Brutus. His colleague had been equally fortunate in Syria. Dolabclla, to whom Antony had given this province, was besieged in Laodi^ cea by Cassius, and put an end to his own life. These events took place in B.C. 43. Brutus and Cassius were now masters of the Roman world east of the Adriatic. It was evi- dent that their enemies before long would cross over into Greece ; bur, instead of concentrating their forces in that country, they be- gan to plunder the cities of Asia Minor, in order to obtain money for their troops. Brutus pillaged Lycia, and Cassius Rhodes. Tho inhabitants of the Lycian town of Xanthns refused to submit to the exactions of Brutus, made an heroic defense when they were at- tacked, and preferred to perish in the flames of their city rather than to yield. Brutus and Cassius were thus engaged when the news of the Triumvirate and the Proscription reached them ; but they continued some time longer plundering in the East, and it was not till the spring of B.C. 42 that the Republican chiefs at length assembled their forces at Sardis, and prepared to march into Europe. So much time, hoAvever, had now been lost, that Antony and Octavian landed upon the coast of Greece, and had already commenced their march toward Macedonia before Brutus and Cassius had quitted Asia. Brutus seems to have had dark forebodings of the approaching struggle. He continued his studious habits during the campaign, and limited his sleep to a very short time. On the night before his army crossed over into Europe he was sitting in his tent, the lamp burning dim, and the whole camp in deep silence, when he saAv a gigantic and terrible figure standing by him. He had the courage to ask, "Who art thou, and for what purpose dost thou come?" The phantom replied, "I am thy evil genius, Brutus; we shall meet again at Philippi !" and vanished. Brutus and Cassius inarched through Thrace and Macedonia to Philippi, where they met the army of the Triumvirs. The Repub* lican leaders took up their positions on two heights distant a mile from each other, Brutus pitching his camp on the northern, and Cassius on the southern, near the sea. The camps, though separate, were inclosed with a common intrenchment. and midway between them was the pass which led like a gate from Europe to Asia. The Triumvirs were on the lower ground, in a less favorable posi- tion Octavian opposite Brutus, and Antony opposite Cassius. Their troops began to sutler from want of provisions, and they en* B.C. 42. BATTLE OF PHILIPPI. 2G1 deavorcd to force the Republican leaders to an engagement. Cas- sius was unwilling to quit his strung position, and recommended that they should wait for their fleet ; but Brutus was anxious to put an cud to this state of suspense, and persuaded the council to risk an immediate battle. Brutus himself defeated the army op- posite to him, and penetrated into the camp of Octavian, who was lying ill, unable to take part in the battle. His litter was seized, and brought forth covered with blood, and a report spread that he had been killed. Meantime, on the other side of the field, Antony had driven back Cassius, and taken his camp. Cassius had retired to a neighboring hill with some of his men, when he saw a large body of cavalry approaching. Thinking that they belonged to the enemy and that every thing was lost, he ordered one of his freed- men to put an end to his life. But the cavalry had been sent by Brutus to obtain news of Cassius ; and when he heard of the death of his colleague, he wept over him as " the last of the Romans," a eulogy which Cassius had done nothing to deserve. Twenty days after the first battle Brutus again led out his forces ; but this time he was completely defeated, and with difficulty es- caped from the field. He withdrew into a wood, and in the night- time fell upon his sword, which Strato, who had been his teacher in rhetoric, held for him. His wife Pore i a, the daughter of Cato, re- solved not to survive her husband; and, being closely watched by her relations, she put an end to her life by thrusting burning char- coal into her mouth. Brutus was doubtless a sincere Republican, but he was a man of weak judgment, deficient in knowledge of mankind, and more fitted for a life of study than, the command of. armies and the government of men. Coin of Antony and Cleopatra. M. Agrippa. CHAPTER XXXVII. FROM THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI TO THE BATTLE OF ACTITJM. B.C. 41-30. THE battle of Philippi sealed the fate of the Republic. Antony remained in the East to collect money for the soldiers. Octavian, who was in ill health, returned to Italy to give the veterans the lands which had been promised them. Antony traversed Asia Minor, plundering the unfortunate inhabitants, who had already suffered so severely from the exactions of Brutus and Cassius. In the voluptuous cities of Asia he surrendered himself to every kind of sensual enjoyment. He entered Ephesus in the character of Bacchus, accompanied by a wild procession of women dressed like Bacchantes, and men and youths disguised as Satyrs and Pans. At Tarsus, in Cilicia, whither lie had gone to prepare for the war against the Parthians, he was visited by Cleopatra. He had sum- moned her to his presence to answer for her conduct in supplying Cassius with money and provisions. She was now in her 28th year, and in the full maturity of her charms. In her 15th year her B.C. 41. WAR OF PERUSIA. 2CS beauty had made an impression on the heart of Antony, when he was at Alexandria with Gabinius, and she now trusted to make him her willing slave. She sailed up the Cydnus to Tarsus in a mag* nificent vessel with purple sails, propelled by silver oars to the sound of luxurious music. She herself reclined under an awning spangled with gold, attired as Venus and fanned by Cupids. The most beautiful of her female slaves held the rudder and the ropes. The perfumes burnt upon the vessel filled the banks of the river witli their fragrance. The inhabitants cried that Venus had come to revel with Bacchus. Antony accepted her invitation to sup on board her galley, and was completely subjugated. Her wit and vivacity surpassed even her beauty. He followed her to Alexan- dria, where he forgot every thing in luxurious dalliance and the charms of her society. Meantime important events had been taking place in Italy. Oc- tavian found immense difficulties in satisfying the demands of the veterans. All Italy was thrown into confusion. Though he ex- pelled thousands from their homes in Cisalpine Gaul, in order to give their farms to his soldiers, they still clamored for more. Those who had obtained assignments of land seized upon the property of their neighbors, and those who had not were ready to rise in mutiny. The country people, who had been obliged to yield their property to the rude soldiery, filled Italy with their complaints, and flocked to Rome to implore in vain the protection of Octavian. Even if he had the wish, he had not the power to control his sol- diers. Fulvia, the wife of Antony, who had remained behind in Italy, resolved to avail herself of those elements of confusion, and crush Octavian. She was a bold and ambitious woman ; she saw that, sooner or later, the struggle must come between her husband and Octavian ; and, by precipitating the war, she hoped to bring l;er husband to Italy, and thus withdraw him from the influence of Cleopatra. L. Antonius, the brother of the Triumvir, who wa* Consul this year (B.C. 41), entered into her views. They pro- claimed themselves the patrons of the unfortunate Italians, and also promised to the discontented soldiery that the Triumvir would recompense them with the spoils of Asia, By these means they soon saw themselves at the head of a considerable force. They even obtained possession of Home. But Agrippa, the ablest general of Octavian, forced them to quit the city, and pressed them so hard that they were obliged to take refuge in Perusia (/^crw/ia), one of the most po\\ erf 1 cities of Ktruria. Here they were besieged dur- ing the winter, and suffered so dreadfully from famine that they Pound themselves compelled to capitulate in the following spring. The lives of L. Antonius and Fulvia wore spared, but the chief cit- 2G4 HISTORY OF ROME. izens of Perusia itself were put to death, and the town Itmrnt to the ground. While Antony's friends were thus unfortunate in Italy, his own forces experienced a still greater disaster in the East. Q. Labienus, the son of Caesar's old lieutenant in Gaul, had been sent by Brutus and Cassius to seek aid from Orodes, the king of Parthia. lie was in that country when the news arrived of the battle of Philippi, and had remained there up to the present time. The war in Italy, and Antony's indolence at Alexandria, held out a favorable opportunity for the invasion of the Roman provinces. Orodes placed a large army under the command of Labienus and his own son Pacorus. They crossed the Euphrates in B.C. 40, and carried every thing be- fore them. Antony's troops were defeated ; the two powerful cities of Antioch and Apamea were taken, and the whole of Syria over- run by the Parthians. Pacorus penetrated as far south as Pales- tine, and Labienus invaded Cilicia. Such alarming news, Loth from Italy and the East, at length aroused Antony from his volup- tuous dreams. Leaving his lieutenant Ventidius in Syria to con- duct the war against the Parthians, Antony sailed to Athens, where he met his brother and wife. He now formed an alliance with Sextus Pompey, sailed to Italy, and laid siege to Brundusium. Another civil war seemed inevitable ; but the soldiers on both sides were eager for peace, and mutual friends persuaded the chiefs to be reconciled, which was the more easily effected in consequence of the death of Fulvia at Sicyon. A neAv division of the Roman world was now made. Antony was to have all the eastern prov- inces and Octavian the western, the town of Scodra, in lllyricum, forming the boundary between them. Italy was to belong to ihem in common. Lepidus was allowed to retain possession of Africa, which he had received after the battle of Philippi, but he had ceased to be of any political importance. It was agreed that Antony should carry on the war against the Parthians, and that Octavian should subdue Pompey, whom Antony readily sacrificed. The Consuls were to be selected alternately from the friends of each. To cement the alliance, Antony was to marry Octavia, the sister of Octavian and widow of C. Marcellus, one of the noblest women of her age. The two Triumvirs then repaired to Rome to celebrate the marriage. These events took place toward the end of B.C. 40. Discontent, however, prevailed at Rome. Sextus Pompey, who had been excluded from the peace, still continued master of the sea, and intercepted the ships which supplied the city with corn. The people were in want of bread, and became so exasperated that Octavian and Antony found it necessary to enter into negotiations with Pompey. An interview took place between the chiefs at B.C. 38-37. WAR WITH SEXTUS POMPEY. 265 Cape Misenum. It was agreed that Pompey should receive Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Acliaia, and that he should send to Rome an immediate supply of corn. The chiefs then feasted one another, and Pompey entertained Octavian and Antony on board his own galley. When the banquet was at its height, a Greek named Me- nas, or Menodorus, one of Pompey's captains, whispered to him, " Shall I cut off the anchors of the ship, and make you master of the Roman world?" To which Pompey made the well-known re- ply, "You ought to have done it without asking me." The two Triumvirs, on their return to Rome, were received with shouts of applause. The civil wars seemed to have <-ome to an end (B.C. 39). Antony, with Octavia, returned to the East, where he found that his legate Ventidius had gained the most brilliant success over the Parthians. This man was a native of Piccnum, and originally a, mule-driver. lie was taken prisoner in the Social War, and walked in chains in the triumphal procession of Pompeius Strato. He was made Tribune of the Plebs by Julius Cffisar, and was raised to the Consulship in B.C. 43. In the Parthian War he displayed military abilities of no ordinary kind. He first defeated Labienus, took him prisoner in Cilicia, and put him to death. He then entered Syria, and drove Pacorus beyond the Euphrates. In the following year (B.C. 38) the Parthians again entered Syria, but Ventidius gained a signal victory over them, and Pacorus himself fell in the battle. The treaty between Sextus Pompey and the Triumvirs did not last long. Antony refused to give up Achaia, and Pompey there- fore recommenced his piratical excursions. The price of provisions at Rome immediately rose, and Octavian found it necessary to com- mence war immediately ; but his fleet was twice defeated by Pom- pey, and was at last completely destroyed by a storm (B.C. 38). This failure only proved the necessity of making still more extensive preparations to carry on the war with success. The power of Oc- tavian was insecure as long as Pompey was master of the sea, and could deprive Rome of her supplies of corn. Nearly two years were spent in building a new fleet, and exercising the newly-raised crews and rowers. The command of the fleet and the superintendence of all the necessary preparations for the war were intrusted to Agrip- pa. In order to obtain a perfectly secure and land-locked basin tor his licet, and thus secure it against any sudden surprise, he con- structed the celebrated Julius Portus on the coast of Campania, near Baioe, by connecting the inland Lake Avcrnus, by means of a canal, with the Lake Lucrinus, and by strengthening the latter lake against the sea by an artificial dike or dam. While he was en- gaged in these great Avorks, Antony sailed to Tarentum, in B.C. 37, with 300 ships. Maecenas hastened thither from Rome, and sue- 2G HISTORY OF ROME. CHAI-. XXXYil. ceeded once more in concluding an amicable arrangement. He wns accompanied on this occasion by Horace, who has immortalized, in a wi'il-known satire, his journey from Rome to Brundusium. Octavian and Antony met between Tarentum and Mctapontum ; the Triumvirate \vns renewed Cor another period of five years ; An- tony agreed to leave 120 ships to assist in the war against Pompey, and Octavian promised to send a land force to the East for the campaign against the 1'arihians. Octavian, now relieved of all anxiety on the part of Antony, urged on his preparations with redoubled vigor. By the summer of B.C. 3G he was ready to commence operations. He had three large fleets at his disposal : his own, stationed in the Julian harbor ; that of Antony, under the command of Statilius Taurus, in the har- bor of Tarentum ; and that of Lepidus, off the coast of Africa. His plan was for all three fleets to set sail on the same day, and make a descent upon three different parts of Sicily ; but a fearful storm marred this project. Lepidus alone reached the coast of Sicilv, and landed at Lilyboeum ; Statilius Taurus was able to put back to Tarentum ; but Octavian, who was surprised by the storm oft' the Lucanian promontory of Palinurus, lost a great number of his ships, and was obliged to remain in Italy to repair his shattered fleet. As soon as the ships had been refitted, Octavian again set sail for Sicily. Agrippa defeated rompey's fleet off Mylse, destroying 30 of his ships; but the decisive battle was fought on the 3d of Sep- tember (B.C. 3G), oft' Kaulochus, a sea-port between Mylai and the promontory of Pelorus. Agrippa gained a brilliant victory ; most of the Pompeian vessels were destroyed or taken. Pompey himself fled to Lesbos with a squadron of 17 ships. Octavian did not pur- sue him, as Lepidus, who was at the head of a considerable force, now claimed Sicily for himself, and an equal share as Triumvir in the government of the Roman world ; but Octavian found means to seduce his soldiers from their allegiance; and Lepidus was at last obliged to surrender to Octavian, and to throw himself upon his mercy. His life was granted, but he was deprived of his Triumvi- rate, his army, and his provinces, and was compelled to retire to Ita- ly as a private person. lie was allowed, however, to retain his prop- arty and the dignity of Fontifex Maximus. He lived till B.C. 13. In B.C. 35 Pompey crossed over from Lesbos to Asia, with the view of seizing that province ; but he was easily crushed by the lieutenants of Anton v, was taken prisoner as he attempted io escape to Armenia, and was put to death at Miletus. By the death of Pompey and the deposition of Lepidus, Antony and Octavian were now left without a rival, and Antony's mad love for Cleopatra soon made Octavian the undisputed master of the Rom.-.n v.orld. B.C. 37-32. ANTONY IN THE EAST. 2G7 After Antony's marriage with Octavia in B.C. 40, ho seems for a time to have forgotten, or, at least, conquered the fascinations of the Egyptian queen. For the next three years lie resided in Ath- ens with his wife ; hut after his visit to Italy, and the renewal of the Triumvirate in B.C. 37, he left Octavia behind at Tarentum, and determined to carry out his long-projected campaign against the Parthians. As he approached Syria, "that great evil," as Plutarch calls it, his passion for Cleopatra, burst forth with more vehemence than ever. From this time she appears as his evil gen- ius. He summoned her to him at Laodicea, and loaded her with honors and favors. He added to her dominions Phoenicia, Ccele- Svria, Cyprus, a large part of Cilicia, Palestine, and Arabia, and publicly recognized the children she had borne him. Although he had collected a large army to invade the Parthian empire, he was unable to tear himself away from the enchantress, and did not com- mence his inarch till late in the year. The expedition proved most disastrous ; the army suffered from want of provisions, and Antony- found himself compelled to retreat. He narrowly escaped the fate of Crassus, and it was with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded iu reaching the Armenian mountains, after losing the best part of his troops. Antony returned to Alexandria, and surrendered himself entire- ly to Cleopatra. In B.C. 34 he made a short campaign into Arme- ni.i, and succeeded in obtaining possession of Artnvasdas, the Ar- menian king. He carried him to Alexandria, and, to the great scandal of all the Komans, entered the city in triumph, with all the pomp and ceremonial of the Roman pageant. He now laid aside entirely the character of a Human citizen, and assumed the state and dress of an Eastern monarch. Instead of the toga he wore a robe of purple, and his head was crowned with a diadem. Some- times he assumed the character of Osiris, while Cleopatra appeared at his side as Isis. He gave the title of kings to Alexander and Ptolemy, his sons by Cleopatra. The Egyptian queen already dreamed of reigning over the Koman world. While Antony was disgusting the Komans and alienating his friends and supporters by his senseless follies, Octavian had been restoring order to Italy, and, by his wise and energetic administra- tion, was slowly repairing the evils of the civil wars. In order to give security to the frontiers and employment to the troops, he at- tacked the barbarians on the north of Italy and Greece, and sub- dued the lapydcs, Pannonians, and Dalmatians. He carried on these wars in person, and won the ali'cction of the soldiers by shar- ing their dangers and hardships. The contrast between the two Triumvirs was sufficiently strib 2G8 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXVII. ing, but Octavian called attention to the follies of Antony. Letters passed between them full of mutual recriminations, and both par- ties began to prepare for the inevitable struggle. Toward the end of 15. c. 32 the Senate declared war against Cleopatra, for Antony was regarded as her slave.* The five years of the Triumvirate hud expired on the last day of this year; and on the 1st of Janu- ary, r,.c. 31, Octavian, as Consul of the Republic, proceeded to carry on the war against the Egyptian queen. The hostile fleets and ar mics assembled on the western coasts of Greece. Antony's fleet was superior both in number and size of the ships, but they were clum-y and unmanageable. They were anchored in the Ambra- ciotGulf, in the modern Hcnj of J y reresa. (See Plan, P.) The army Avas encamped on the promontory of Actium (Plan, 3), which has given its name to the battle. The fleet of Octavian consisted of light Liburnian vessels, manned by crews which had gained experience Plan of Actium. in lh(J Wflrs against g cx . 1. Nicopolis. I 3. Prom. Actium. * T> T*. 2. C.LaScara. 5. Temple of Apollo. ttlS PompCV. It Was under the command of the able Agrippn, who took np his station at Corcyra, and swept the Adriatic Sea. Octavian in person took the command of the land forces, which were encamped on the coast of Epirus opposite Acti- um, on the spot where Nicopolis afterward stood. (Plan, 1.) The generals of Antony strongly urged him 'to fight on land ; but the desertions among his troops were numerous; Cleopatra became alarmed for her safety ; and it was therefore resolved to sacrifice the army, and retire with the fleet to Egypt. But Agrippa was on the watch, and Antony had no sooner sailed outside the strait than he was compelled to fight. The battle was still undecided and equally favorable to both parties, when Cleopatra, whose vessels were at an- chor in the rear, taking advantage of a favorable breeze which sprang up, sailed through the midst of the combatants with her f-quadron of GO ships, and made for the coast of Peloponnesus. When An- tony saw her flight, he hastily followed her, forgetting every thing else, and shamefully deserting those who were fighting and dying in his cause. The remainder of the fleet was destroyed before * Antony retaliated by sending Octavia a bill of divorce. B.C.SO. DEATH OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATKA. L'G'J night-time. The army, after a few days' hesitation, surrendered, and Octavian pardoned all the officers who sued for his favor. The battle of Actium was fought on the 2d of September, B.C. 31, from which day the reign of Octavian is to be dated. Octavian did not follow Antony to Alexandria for nearly twelve months after the battle of Actium. He sent Agrippa to Italy with his veteran troops, and himself passed the winter at Samos ; but he I'ould not satisfy the demands of the soldiers, who broke out into open mutiny. Octavian hastened to Brundusium, and with diffi- culty raised a sufficient sum of money to calm their discontent. I This respite was of no service to Antony and Cleopatra. They knew that resistance was hopeless, and therefore sent embassadors to Octavian to solicit his favor. To Antony no answer was given, but to Cleopatra hopes were held out if she would betray her lover. She began to flatter herself that her charms, which had fascinated both Caesar and Antony, might conquer Octavian, who was younger than either. Octavian at length appeared before Pelusium, which surrendered to him without resistance. lie then marched upon Alexandria. Antony, encouraged by some slight success in an ac- tion with the cavalry, prepared to resist Octavian botli by sea and land ; but as soon as the Egyptian ships approached those of Octa- vian, the crews saluted them with their oars and passed over to their side. Antony's cavalry also deserted him, his infantry was easily repulsed, and he fled to Alexandria, crying out that he was betrayed by Cleopatra. The queen had shut herself up in a mausoleum which she had built to receive her body after death, and where she had collected her most valuable treasures. Hearing of Antony's defeat, she sent persons to inform him that she was dead. He fell into the snare ; they had promised not to survive one another, and Antony stabbed himself. He was drawn up into the mausoleum, and died in her arms. She was apprehended by the officers of Octavian, and a few days afterward had an interview with the conqueror. Her charms, however, failed in softening the colder heart of Octavian. He only "bade her be of good cheer and fear no violence." Soon after- ward she learned that she was to be sent to Rome in three days' time. This news decided her. On the following d;iy she was found lying dead on a golden couch in royal attire, with her two women lifeless at her feet. The manner of her death was un- known. It was generally believed that she had died by the bite of an asp, which a peasant had brought to her in a basket full of figs. She was i>l) years of age at the time of her death. Egypt was made a Koman province. Octavian did not return to liome till B.C. 29, when he celebrated a threefold triumph over the Pan- 270 HISTOKY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXVII. nonians, Dalmatians, and Egypt. The Temple of Janus was closed for the third time in Roman history. The exhausted Roman world, longing fur repose, gladly acquiesced in the sole rule of Octavian. The Senate conferred upon him numerous honors and distinctions, with the title of Imperator for life. Thus ended the Roman Republic, an end to which it had been tending for the last hundred years. The corruption and demoral- ization of all classes had rendered a Republic almost an impossi- bility ; and the civil dissensions of the state had again and again invested one or more persons with despotic authority. The means which Augustus employed to strengthen and maintain his power belong to a history of the Empire. He proceeded, with the caution which was his greatest characteristic. He refused the names of King and Dictator, and was contented with the simple appellation of Princejis, which had always been given to one of the most dis- tinguished members of the Senate. He received, however, in B.C. 27, the novel title of Augustus, that is, "the sacred," or " the ven- erable," which was afterward assumed by all the Roman emperors as a surname. As Imperator he had the command of the Roman armies ; and the tribunitian and proconsular powers which the Senate conferred upon him made him absolute master of the state. He made a new division of the provinces, allowing the Senate to ap- point the governors of those which were quiet and long-settled, like Sicily, Achaia, and Asia, but retaining for himself such as required the presence of an army, which were governed by means of liisLc- gati. On the death of Lepidus in u.c. 13, lie succeeded him as Pontifex Maximus, and thus became the head of the Roman re- ligion. While he thus united in his own person all the great offices of state, he still allowed the Consuls, Traitors, and other magistrates of the Republic to be annually elected. "In a few words, the system of Imperial government, as it was instituted by Octavian, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, may be defined as an absolute government, disguised by the form of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the ac- countable ministers of the Senate, whose supreme decrees they die*, tated and obeyed."* * Gibbon. Horace. CHAPTER XXXVIII. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ROMAN LITERATURE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF AUGUSTUS. FOR many centuries after the foundation of the city the Romans can hardly be said to have had any literature at all. There may have existed, at an early period, some songs or ballads, recounting, in rude strains,* the exploits of the heroes of Roman story, but all trace of these has disappeared. It was not till the conquest of the Greek cities in Southern Italy, shortly before the First Tunic War, that we can date the commencement of the Roman literature. It began with the Drama. Dramatic exhibitions were first introduced at Rome from Etruria in B.C. 363, on the occasion of a severe pest- ilence, in order to avert the anger of the gods. But these exhibi- tions were only pantomimic scenes to the music of the flute, with- out any song or dialogue. It was not till B.C. 240 that a drama with a regular plot was performed at Rome. Its author was M. Livius ANDROMCUS, a native of Magna Grueeia, who was taken prisoner at the capture of Tarcntum, and carried to Rome, where he became the slave of M. Livius Salinator. He was afterward set free, and, according to Roman practice, took the gentilic name of his master. He acquired at Rome a perfect knowledge of the Lat- in language, and wrote both tragedies and comedies, which were borrowed, or, rather, translated from the Greek. He also wrote an Odyssey in the Saturnian metre, and some hymns. He may be * These were probably composed in the Patnrnian metre, the oldest Kpcci versification among the Romans, in which much greater license was allowed iu the laws of quantity than in the metres which were borrowed from the Greeks. B.C. 235-225. ROMAN LITERATURE. 273 regarded as the first Roman poet. His works were read in schools in the time of Horace. CN. N^EVIUS, the second Roman poet, was a Campanian by birth. He served in the First Punic War, and, like Livius, wrote dramas borrowed from the Greek. His first play was performed in i?.c. 2.''5. He was attached to the Plebeian party ; and, with the license of the old Attic comedy, lie made the stage a vehicle for assailing the ar- istocracy. In consequence of his attacks upon the Metelli he was thrown into prison. He obtained his release through the Tribunes, but was soon compelled to expiate a new offense by exile. He re- tired to Utica, where he died about u.c. 202. In his exile he wrote, in the Saturnian metre, an epic poem on the First Punic War, in which he introduced the celebrated legends connected with the foundation of Rome. This poem was extensively copied both by Ennius and Virgil. Q. ENNIUS, however, may be regarded as the real founder of Ro- man literature. Like Livius, he was a native of Magna Graicia. He was born at Rudias, in Calabria, i5.c. 239. Cato found him in Sardinia in u.c. 204, and brought him in his train to Rome. He dwelt in a humble house on the Aventine, and maintained himself by acting as preceptor to the youths of the Roman nobles. He lived on terms of the closest intimacy with the elder Scipio Afri- canus. He died B.C. 1G9, at the age of 70. He was buried in the sepulchre of the Scipios, and his bust was allowed a place among the effigies of that noble house. His most important work was an epic poem, entitled the " Annals of Rome," in 18 books, written in dactylic hexameters, which, through his example, supplanted the old Saturnian metre. This poem commenced with the loves of Mars and Rhea, and came down to the age of Ennius. Virgil bor- rowed largely from it; and, down to his time, it was regarded as the great epic poem of the Latin language. He also wrote numer- ous tragedies, a few comedies, and several other works, such as Satire', composed in a great variety of metres, from which circum- stance they probably received their name. The comic drama of Rome, though it continued to be more or less a translation or an imitation of the Greek, was cultivated witli distinguished success by two writers of genius, several of who. 1 a plays are still extant. T.MACCIUS PLAUTUS was a native of Sarsina, a small village in Umbria, and was born about n.c. 254. He probably came to Rome at an early age, and was first employed in the service of the actors. With the money he had saved in this inferior station he left Rome, and set up in business; but his speculations failed : he returned to Rome, and his necessities obliged him to enter the service of a S 274 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXVIII. baker, who employed him in turning a hand-mill. "While in this degrading occupation he wrote three plays, the sale of which to the managers of the public games enabled him to quit his drudgery, and begin his literary career. lie was then about 30 years of age (B.C. 224), and continued to write for the stage for about 40 } r ears. He died in B.C. 184, when he was 70 years of age. The comedies of Flautus enjoyed unrivaled popularity among the Romans, and continued to be represented down to the time of Diocletian. Though they were founded upon Greek models, the characters in them act, speak, and joke like genuine Romans, and the poet thereby secured the sympathy of his audience more completely than Terence. It was not only with the common people that Plau- tus was a favorite ; educated Romans read and admired his works down to the latest times. Cicero places his wit on a level with that of the old Attic comedy ; and St. Jerome used to console him- self with the perusal of the poet, after spending many nights in tears on account of his past sins. The favorable impression which the ancients entertained of the merits of Plautus has been confirmed by the judgment of modern critics, and by the fact that several of his plays have been imitated by many of the best modern poets. Twenty of his comedies are extant. P.TERENTIUS AFER, usually called TERENCE, was born at Car- thage, B.C. 195. By birth or purchase he became the slave of P. Terentius, a Roman senator, who afforded him the best education of the age, and finally gave him his freedom. The Andria, which was the first play of Terence acted (B.C. 166), was the means of in- troducing him to the most refined and intellectual circles of Rome. His chief patrons were Lrclius and the younger Scipio, both of whom treated him as an equal, and are said even to have assisted him in the composition of his plays. He died in the 36th year of his age, in B.C. 159. Six comedies are all that remain to us. The ancient critics are unanimous in ascribing to Terence immaculate purity and elegance of language. Although a foreigner and a freedman> he divides with Cicero and Ccesar the palm of pure Latinity. There were two other comic poets, whose works are lost, but who enjoyed a great reputation among the Romans. Q. C^SCILIUS was a native of Milan, and, like Terence, came to Rome as a slave. He was the immediate predecessor of Terence, and died B.C. 168, two years before the representation of the Andria. L. AFRANIUS flour- ished B.C. 100, and wrote comedies describing Roman scenes and manners, called Comccdiw Togatcr, to distinguish them from those depicting Grecian life, which were termed Paltiatce, from pallim/i, the national dress of the Greeks. There were two tragic poets contemporary with Terence, who also B.C. 220. ROMAN LITERATURE. 276 enjoyed great celebrity, though their works have likewise perished. M. PACUVIUS, son of the sister of Knnius, was born about B.C. 220, and died in the 90th year of his age. He is praised by the Latin writers for the loftiness of his thoughts, the vigor of his language, and the extent of his knowledge. Hence we find the epithet doctvs frequently applied to him. Most of his tragedies were taken from the Greek writers ; but some belonged to the class called Prtctex- tat(c, in which the subjects were taken from Roman story. One of these, entitled Pan/his, had as its hero L. JEmilius Paullus, the conqueror of Perseus, king of Macedonia. L. Accius, a younger contemporary of Pacuvius, was born B.C. 170, and lived to a great age. Cicero, when a young man, frequently conversed with him. His tragedies, like those of Pacuvius, were chiefly imitations of the Greek; but he also wrote some on Roman subjects, one of which was entitled Brutus. Though the Roman Drama, properly so called, was derived from the Greeks, there were some kinds of dramatic exhibitions which were of Italian origin. The first of these were the Atcllaun- l<\tl>nl B,C. 39-37. ROMAN LITERATURE. 279 qucntcd the host schools in the capital. One of these was kept by Orbilius, a retired military man, whose flogging propensities have been immortalized by his pupil. The names of his other teachers are not recorded by the poet. He was instructed in the Greek and Latin languages : the poets were the usual school-books Ho- mer in the Greek, and the old tragic writer, Livius Andronictis, in the Latin. In his eighteenth year Horace proceeded to Athens, in order to continue his studies at that seat of learning. When Brutus came to Athens after the death of Cicsar, Horace joined his army, and received at once the rank of n military tribune and the command of a legion. He was present at the battle of Philip- pi, and shared in the flight of the republican army. In one of his poems he playfully alludes to his flight, and throwing away his shield. He now resolved to devote himself to more peaceful pur- suits ; and, having obtained his pardon, he ventured at once to re- turn to lome. lie had lost all his hopes in life ; his paternal es- tate had been swept away in the general forfeiture ; but he was enabled to obtain sufficient money to purchase a clerkship in the Quaestor's office, and on the profits of that place he managed, with the utmost frugality, to live. Meantime some of his poems at- tracted the notice of Varius and Virgil, who introduced him to Maecenas (i?.c. 39). Horace soon became the friend of Maecenas, *md this f.-iendship quickly ripened into intimacy. In a year or two after the commencement of their friendship (B.C. 37) Horace ac- companied his patron on the journey to Brundusium already al- luded to. About the year B.C. 34 Maecenas bestowed upon the poet a Sabine farm, sufficient to maintain him in ease, comfort, and even in content, during the rest of his life. The situation of this farm was in the valley of Ustica, within view of the mountain Lu- cretilis, and near the Digentia, about 15 miles from Tibur (Tu-o&). A site exactly answering to the villa of Horace, and on which were found ruins of buildings, has been discovered in modern times. Besides this estate, his admiration of the beautiful scenery in the neighborhood of Tibur inclined him either to hire or to purchase a fimall cottage in that romantic town ; and all the later years of his life were passed between the metropolis and these two country res^ idences. He died, B.C. 8, in his 57th year. He was buried on the slope of the Ksquiline Hill, close to his friend and patron Mae- cenas, who had died before him in the same year. Horace has described his own person. He was of short stature, with dark eyes and dark hair, but early tinged with gray. In his youth he was tolerably robust, but suffered from a complaint in his eyes. In more advanced life he grew fat, and Augustus jested about his pro- tuberant belly. His health was not always good, and he seems to 280 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXVIII. have inclined to bo a valetudinarian. In dress he was rather care- less. His habits, even after he became richer, were generally fru- gal and abstemious ; though on occasions, both in youth and ma- turer age, he seems to have indulged in conviviality. He liked choice wine, and in the society of friends scrupled not to enjoy tho luxuries of his time. He was never married. The Odes of Hor- ace want the higher inspirations of lyric verse. His amatory verses are exquisitely graceful, but they have no strong ardor, no deep ten- derness, nor even much light and joyous gayety ; but as works of refined art, of the most skillful felicities of language and of meas- ure, of translucent expression, and of agreeable images embodied in words which imprint themselves indelibly on the memory, they are unrivaled. In the Satires of Horace there is none of the lofty moral indignation, the fierce vehemence of invective, which char- acterized the later satirists. It is the folly rather than the wicked- ness of vice which he touches with such playful skill. In the Epodes there is bitterness provoked, it should seem, by some per- sonal hatred or sense of injury ; but the Epistles are the most per- fect of the Horatian poetry, the poetry of manners and society, the beauty of which consists in its common sense and practical wisdom . The Epistles of Horace are, with the Poem of Lucretius, the Geor- gics of Virgil, and, perhaps, the Satires of Juvenal, the most per- fect and the most original form of Roman verse. The Art of Poetry was probably intended to dissuade one of the younger Pisos from devoting himself to poetry, for which he had little genius, or, at least, to suggest the difficulties of attaining to perfection. Three celebrated Elegiac poets Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid also belong to the Augustan age. ALBIUS TIBULLUS was of equestrian family, and possessed an hereditary estate between Tibur and Prajncste. His great patron was Messala, whom he accompanied in B.C. 31 into Aquitania, whither Messala had been sent by Augustus to suppress a formida- able insurrection which had broken out in this province. In the following year (B.C. 30) Messala, having pacified Gaul, was sent into the East. Tibullus set out in his company, but was taken ill, and obliged to remain in Corcyra, from whence lie returned to Rome,, So ceased the active life of Tibullus. He died at an early age soon after Virgil. The poetry of his contemporaries shows Tibullus as a gentle and singularly amiable man. To Horace especially he was an object of warm attachment. His Elegies, which are exqui- site small poems, celebrate the beauty and cruelty of his mistresses. SEXTUS AURELIUS PROPERTIUS was a native of Umbria, and was born about B.C. 51. He was deprived of his paternal estate by an agrarian division, probably that in B.C 33, after the Sicilian War- B.C.30-A.D. 18. ROMAN LITERATURE. 281 He began to write poetry at a very early age, and the merit of his productions soon attracted the attention and patronage of Maece- nas. The year of his death is altogether unknown. As an elegiac poet a high rank must be awarded to Propertius, and among the ancients it was a disputed point whether the preference should be given to him or to Tibullus. To the modern reader, however, the elegies of Propertius are not nearly so attractive as those of Tibul- lus. This arises partly from their obscurity, but in a great meas- ure, also, from a certain want of nature in them. The fault of Propertius was too pedantic an imitation of the Greeks. His whole ambition was to become the Roman Callimachus, whom he made his model. lie abounds with obscure Greek myths, as well as Greek forms of expression, and the same pedantry infects even his versification. P. OVIDIUS NASO, usually called OVID, was born at Sulmo, in the country of the Peligni, on the 20th of March, B.C. 43. He was descended from an ancient equestrian family, and was destined to be a pleader ; but the bent of his genius showed itself very early. The hours which should have been spent in the study of jurispru- dence were employed in cultivating his poetical talent. It is a disputed point whether he ever actually practiced as an advocate after his return to Rome. The picture Ovid himself draws of his weak constitution and indolent temper prevents us from thinking that he ever followed his profession with perseverance, if, indeed P at all. He became, however, one of the Triumviri Cita?es ; and he was subsequently made one of the Centtimviri, or judges who tried testamentary, and even criminal causes. Till his 50th year he continued to reside at Rome, where he had a house near the Capitol, occasionally taking a trip to his Pelignian farm. He not only enjoyed the friendship of a large circle of distinguished men, but the regard and favor of Augustus and the imperial family ; not- withstanding, in A.D. i), he was suddenly commanded by an imperial edict to transport himself to Tomi, a town on the Euxine, near the mouths of the Danube, on the very border of the empire. He un- derwent no trial, and the sole reason for his banishment stated in the edict was his having published his poem on the Art of Love {Ars Amatoria). The real cause of his banishment is unknown, for the publication of the Art of Love was certainly a mere pretext. Ovid draws an aifecting picture of the miseries to which he was ex- posed in his place of exile. He complains of the inhospitable soil, of the severity of the climate, and of the perils to which he was ex- posed, when the barbarians plundered the surrounding country, and insulted the very walls of Tomi. In the midst of all his misfor- tunes he sought some relief in the exercise of his poetical talents. 282 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXVIII. He died at Tomi in the GOth year of his age, A.D. 18. Besides his amatory poems, Ovid wrote the Metcanorpkotta in 15 books, which consist of such legends or fables as involved a transformation, from the Creation to the time of Julius Ciesar, the last being that em- peror's change into a star; the Fasti in 12 books, of which only the first six are extant, a sort of poetical Roman calendar, with its appropriate festivals and mythology ; and the Elegies, written dur- ing his banishment. Ovid undoubtedly possessed a great poetical genius, which makes it the more to be regretted that it was not al- ways under the control of a sound judgment. He exhibits great vigor of fancy and warmth of coloring, but he was the first to de- part from that pure and correct taste which characterizes the Greek poets and their earlier Latin imitators. We now turn to the history of prose literature among the Ro- mans. The earliest prose works were Annals, containing a meagre account of the principal events in Roman history, arranged under their respective years. The earliest Annalists who obtained repu- tation were Q. FABIUS PICTOR and L. CINCIUS ALIMENTUS, both of whom served in the Second Punic War, and drew up an account of it, but they wrote in the Greek language. The first prose writer in the Latin language, of whom any considerable fragments have been preserved, is the celebrated Censor, M. PORCIUS CATO, who died B.C. 149, and of whose life an account has been already given. He wrote an important historical work entitled Oriyines. The first book contained the history of the Roman kings ; the second and third treated of the origin of the' Italian towns, and from these two books the whole work derived its title ; the fourth book treated of the First Punic War, the fifth book of the Second Punic War, and the sixth and seventh continued the narrative to the year of Cato's death. There is still extant a work on agriculture (Z>e Re Rus- tica) bearing the name of Cato, which is probably substantially his, though it is certainly not exactly in the form in which it proceeded from his pen. There were many other annalists, of whom wo know little more than the names, and whose works were used by Livy in compiling his Roman history. Oratory was always cultivated by the Romans as one of the chief avenues to political distinction. Cicero, in his work entitled Bru- ins, has given a long list of distinguished Orators whose speeches he had read, but he himself surpassed all his predecessors and contemporaries. In his works the Latin language appears in the highest perfection. Besides his numerous orations he also wrote several treatises on Rhetoric, of which the most perfect is a system- atic treatise on the art of Oratory (De Oratcre), in three books. B.C. 1GO-30. ROMAN LITERATURE. 283 His works on Philosophy were almost the first specimens of this kind of literature ever presented to the Romans in their own lan- guage. He docs not aim at any original investigation or research. His object was to present, in a familiar and attractive form, the re- sults at which the Greek philosophers had arrived, not to expound any new theories. His Epistles, of which more than eight hundred have come down to us, are among the most valuable remains of antiquity. Cicero, during the most important period of his life, maintained a close correspondence with Atticus, and with a wide circle of political friends and connections. These letters supply the most ample materials for a history of the Roman Republic dur- ing its last struggles, and afford a clear insight into the persona] dispositions and motives of its chief leaders. The most learned Roman under the Republic was M. TKRKNTIUS VARRO, a contemporary and friend of Cicero. He served as Pom' pey's lieutenant in Spain in the Civil Wars, but was pardoned by Caesar after the battle of Pharsalia, and was employed by him in superintending the collection and arrangement of the great library dcs ; gned for public use. Upon the formation of the second Tri- umvirate, Varro's name appeared upon the list of the proscribed; but he succeeded in making his escape, and, after having remained for some time in concealment, he obtained the protection of Octa- vian. His death took place i?.c. 28, when he was in his 89th year. Not only was Varro the most learned of Roman scholars, but he was likcwi.se the most voluminous of Roman authors. We have his o-.vn authority for the assertion that he had composed no less than 4'JO books, but of these only two have come down to us, and one of them in a mutilated form : 1. l)e Re Itustica, a work on Agricul- ture, in three books, written when the author was 80 years old ; 2. J)e Lint/mi Latina, a grammatical treatise which extended to 24 books, but six only have been preserved, and these are in a mutila- ted condition. The remains of this treatise are particularly valua- ble. They have preserved many terms and forms which would otherwise have been altogether lost, and much curious information connected with the ancient usages, both civil and religious, of the jiomans. C. JULIUS CAESAR, the great Dictator, was also distinguished as an author, and wrote several works, of which the Commentaries alone have come down to us. They relate the history of the first seven years of the Gallic War in seven books, and the history of the Civil War down to the commencement of the Alexandrine in three books. Neither of these works completes the history of the Gallic and Civil Wars. The history of the former was completed in an 8th book, which is usually ascribed to Hirtius. The history 284 HISTORY OF ROME. CiiAp.XXXVJII. of the Alexandrine, African, and Spanish Wars was written in three separate books, which are also ascribed to Hirtius, but their author- ship is uncertain. The purity of Caesar's Latin and the clearness of his style have deservedly obtained the highest praise. C. SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS, a contemporary of Caesar, and one of his supporters, was also distinguished as a historian. He was born B.C. 86 at Amiternum, in the country of the Sabines, and died in B.C. 34. After the African War (B.C. 4G) he was left by Caesar as governor of Numidia, where he acquired great riches by his oppres- sion of the people. Two of his works have come down to us, the Catilina, the history of the suppression of Catiline's conspiracy, and the Juyurtha, the history of the war against Jugurtha. Sallust made T'hucydides his model, and took great pains with his style. CORNGLIUS Nisros, the contemporary and friend of Cicero and Atticus, was the author of numerous works, all of which are lost, with the exception of the well-known Lives of Distinguished Com- manders ( Vitte Excellent-hull Imperat&ntm). But even these Lives, with the exception of that of Atticus, are probably an abridgment of the original work of Nepos, made in the fourth century of the Christian era. Of the prose writers of the Augustan age the most distinguished was the historian TITUS LIVICS, usually called LIVY. He was born at Patavium {Padua), B.C. 59. The greater part of his life ap- pears to have been spent in Rome, but he returned to his native town before his death, which happened at the age of 70, in the fourth year of Tiberius, A.D. 17. His literary talents secured the patronage amLfriendship of Augustus ; and his reputation became so widely diffused, that a Spaniard traveled from Cadiz to Rome solely for the purpose of beholding him ; and, having gratified his curiosity in this one particular, he immediately returned home. Livy's "History of Rome" extended from the foundation of the city to the death of Drusus, B.C. 9, and was comprised in 142 books. Of these 35 have descended to us. The whole work has been di- vided into decades, containing 10 books each. The First decode (bks. i.-x.) is entire. It embraces the period from the foundation of the city to the year B.C. 294, when the subjugation of the Sam- nites may be said to have been completed. The Second decade (bks. xi.-xx.) is altogether lost. It included the period from B.C. 294 to B.C. 219, comprising an account, among other matters, of the invasion of Pyrrhus and of the First Punic War. The Third decade (bks. xxi.-xxx.) is entire. It embraces the period from B.C. 219 to B.C. 201, comprehending the whole of the Second Punic War. The Fourth decade (bks. xxxi.-xl.) is entire, and also one half of the Fifth (bks. xli.-xlv.). These 15 books continue tho B.C. 28 A. D. 17. ROMAN LITERATURE. 285 history from n.c. 201 to rs.e. 1G7, and develop the progress of the lloman arms in Cisalpine Gaul, in Macedonia, Greece, and Asia, ending with the triumph of JEmilius Paullus. Of the remaining books nothing is extant except inconsiderable fragments. The style of Livy may be pronounced almost faultless. In judging of his merits as a historian, we. are bound to ascertain, if possible, the end Ivhich he proposed to himself. No one who reads his work with attention can suppose that he ever conceived the project of drawing tip a critical history of Rome. His aim was to offer to his coun- trymen a clear and pleasing narrative, which, while it gratified their vanity, should contain no startling improbabilities or gross amplifi- cations. To effect this purpose, he studied with care the writings of some of his more celebrated predecessors in the same field ; but in no case did he ever dream of ascending to the fountain-head, and never attempted to test the accuracy of his authorities by ex- amining monuments of remote antiquity. Masccnas. Aureus of Augustus Cajsar. CHAPTER XXXIX. THE REIGN OF AUGUSTUS CAESAR. B.C. 31-A.D. 14. AUGUSTUS, being now the emperor of Rome, sought to win the affections of his people. He lived with republican simplicity in a plain house on the Palatine Hill, and educated his family with great strictness and frugality. His public conduct was designed to conceal his unbounded power. He rejected all unworthy mem- bers from the Senate, and limited the number of the Senators to six hundred. The Comitia of the Centuries was still allowed to pass laws and elect magistrates, but gradually these powers were taken away, until, in the reign of Tiberius, they are mentioned no more. The emperor's chief counselors in public affairs were his four friends, M. Vipsanius Agrippa, C. Cilnius Maecenas, M. Valerius Messala, and Asinius Pollio, all persons of excellent talents, and devoted to their master. Agrippa aided him greatly in embellish- ing the city of Rome with new buildings, and the Pantheon, which was built in the Campus Martius, still bears the inscription, M. \"tp- sanius Ayrij>/m, consul tertiuin. Augustus was accustomed to say that he found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble. To secure the peace of the capital, and to extirpate the robbers who filled its streets, Augustus divided Rome into fourteen regions, and each region into several smaller divisions called Vici: a mag- istrate was placed over each Vicus, and all these officers were un- der the command of the city project. A police force, Vigiles, seven hundred in number, was also provided, who succeeded in restoring the public peace. Italy, in a similar manner, was divided into re- gions, and local magistrates were appointed, who made life and property every where secure. We must notice briefly the extent and condition of that vast empire over which Augustus ruled too vast, in fact, to be sub- jected to the control of a single intellect. Italy, the peculiar prov- ince of the emperor, had lost a large part of its free population, B.C. 31-A.D. 14. REIGN OF AUGUSTUS OESAR. 287 whose place was supplied by slaves ; military colonies were numer- ous, a kind of settlement which never tended to advance the pros- perity of the country; the cities were declining, and many of them almost abandoned. The north of Italy, however, still retained a portion of its former prosperity ; its great droves of swine supplied the people of Rome with a large part of their food ; vineyards also abounded there, and the wine-vats of upper Italy were said to be often larger than houses. Coarse woolen cloths were manufactured in Liguria, and a finer wool was produced near Mutina. But Italy, once so fertile, could no longer produce its own corn, for which it depended chiefly upon Sicily, Africa, and Egypt. The island of Sicily, too, had suffered greatly during the civil wars. Its cities were fallen into ruin, and the woods and mount- ains were filled with fugitive slaves, who, when captured, were taken to Rome and exposed to wild beasts in the amphitheatres. A Roman colony was planted by Augustus in the almost deserted city of Syracuse. The condition of the extensive province of Gaul was more prom- ising, its savage tribes having begun to adopt the arts of civiliza- tion. The Gauls purchased from southern traders such articles as they were unable to produce at home, and supplied Italy, in re- turn, with coarse wool and cargoes of bacon. Several Roman col- onies established in Gaul enjoyed various political privileges, but the people in general were oppressed with taxes and burdened with debts. The religion of the Druids was discouraged by laws which forbade human sacrifices, and, indeed, all rites opposed to the Ro- man faith. In Southern Gaul the city of Massilia (Marseilles) had imparted civilization to the neighboring tribes: they learned to use the Greek characters in writing, while many of the Gallic cities invited Greek teachers to open schools in their midst. Spain, rich in gold and silver, in fine wool, r.nd a prolific soil, traded largely with Rome. The valley of the Bast is, or Guadal- quivcr, was renowned for its uncommon fertility. Many of the Spaniards had already adopted the language and manners of their conquerors. Spain was divided into three provinces, Bajtica, Lu- sitania, and Ilispania, Tarraeoncnsis. Gades, or Cadiz, was one of the richest cities of the empire, and, according to Dion Cassius, had received the privilege of Roman citizenship from Julius Ca-sar, whom its people had aided against Pompcy's officers. The tribes in the northwest of Spain, however, were savage and unquiet, and their language, the Basque, which still exists, shows that they were never perfectly conquered by the Romans. The northern coast of Africa, opposite to Spain, was held by .Tuba, a native prince, while tin; Roman province of Africa '-in- 288 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXIX, braced ancient Carthago, together with a considerable territory around it. This province possessed a large trade. Cyrenaica, to the eastward, included the island of Crete, and was termed a prae- torian province. Egypt was ruled by a governor, who was always taken from tho equestrian order. Two legions only were stationed in that prov- ince. Being the centre of the trade between Italy and the Indies, Egypt accumulated great wealth, and was renowned for its exten- sive commerce. It exported large quantities of corn to Italy, and also papyrus, the best writing material then known. The two finest kinds of papyrus were named the Augustan and the Livian. Alexandria, the sea-port of Egypt, was the second city of the em- pire. Its commerce was immense ; and its museum, colleges, li- brary, and literary men made it also the centre of Greek literature. Alexandria, too, was famous for its superstition and its licentious- ness : the festivals and rites of Serapis had long excited the con- tempt of the wiser Romans. The trade between Alexandria and the Indies was carried on through two routes : one was the famous canal which, begun by Pharaoh Necho, was completed under the government of the Ptol- emies. Leaving the Nile near the southern point of the Delta, the canal, after a somewhat circuitous course, joined the Red Sea at the town of Arsiuoe, near the modern town of Suez. Another route was overland from Coptos, on the Nile, across the desert, to Berenice and Myos Hormos. Along this road wells were dug or reservoirs of water provided, and thus an easy communication was kept up with the East. Heavy duties, however, were laid upon all goods entering or leaving Alexandria, and its extensive trade af- forded a great revenue to the government. From Egypt to the TEgcan Sea, various provinces were created in Syria and Asia Minor. The most extensive of these were the two provinces of Syria and Asia, which were governed by lieuten- ants of the emperor. Judea retained a nominal independence, un- der the government of Herod; Jciusalem was adorned by Herod with magnificent buildings; and Antioch, Tyre, and several other eastern cities were still prosperous and luxurious. They were, how- ever, heavily taxed, and suffered from the tyranny and exactions of their Roman rulers. Greece, in the age of Augustus, seems to have been a scene of desolation. It was divided into two provinces, Macedonia and Achaia, both belonging to the jurisdiction of the Senate and the people. Greece had suffered greatly during the civil wars, and had never recovered its ancient prosperity. The peninsula was partly depopulated. Laconia had long lost its importance, and Mcssenio B.C.3I-A.D. H. REIGN OF AUGUSTUS C^ESAB. 283 ttnd Arcadia were almost deserted. Corinth and Patraa, however, were nourishing Roman colonies ; Thebes was a mere village ; Athens still retained its literary renown, and was always a favorite resort for cultivated Romans ; but its harbor was deserted, its walla thrown down, and the energy of its people forever gone. Macedonia had suffered equally with Greece, and no trace re- mained of its former power. Thus we find that the civilized world, at the accession of Augustus, was every where marked by desola- tion and decay. The Roman empire, at this period, was bounded on the north by the Euxinc, the Danube, the Rhine, and the British Channel; west- ward it reached to the Atlantic; on the south it was confined by the deserts of Africa, and on the east by Assyria and Mesopotamia. The Mediterranean Sea was wholly within the empire, and afford- ed an easy mode of communication with the different provinces. The government which Augustus now established was designed to preserve the memory of the republic, while the real power re- mained with the emperor alone. The people were deprived of all their former importance; the Comitia were only suffered to pass upon laws proposed by the Senate, which was now wholly under the control of the emperor. Consuls and other magistrates were still chosen annually, and Augustus, in the earlier years of his reign, was accustomed to solicit votes for his favorite candidates, who, however, were always elected ; later he contented himself with fur- nishing them with a written recommendation. The Senate met twice in every month, instead of three times, as was the former cus- tom, except during September and October, when no meetings were held. The provinces were governed by proconsuls, several of whom were appointed by the Senate and the people; but all of them were carefully observed by the emperor. Rome itself was governed by a prsefeer, whose duty it was to preserve the public peace. In this manner Augustus, by the aid of his proconsuls, held a despotic rule over all his dominions. He controlled the Senate, too, through his authority as censor, and appointed or deposed its members ; and he raised the property qualification of each Senator to about $50,000. A large part of the people of the capital were maintained by the free distribution of corn ; but Augustus reduced the number from 320,000 to 200,000, providing for the poorer citi- zens by settling them in new colonies, and his measures seem to have produced general contentment. lie was also sincerely desirous to reform the morals of the nation. Several laws were passed encouraging marriage, and in B.C. 18 he obliged the Senate to decree that marrhige should be imperative upon every citizen of suitable age. Celibacy was puni?hi>, and triumphed ; was saluted Imperator, and received the tribuni- tian power for five years. Soon after, indignant at the dissolute conduct of his wife Julia, and the honors bestowed upon lkej~*ansJby Agrippa, he withdrew to Rhodes, where he remained for seven years, a discontented exile. He returned to Rome in A.D. 2,~and, two years after, was adopted by Augustus as his son. He next conquered a large part of Ger- many, and defeated several large bodies of the Marcomanni in what is now the territory of Bohemia. But, while he was employed upon this expedition, Arminius, the German hero, excited an insurrection of his countrymen against the cruel Romans, cut off Varus, their leader, with his army, and filled Rome with alarm. Germany seemed lost. Augustus, when he heard of the disaster, exclaimed, "Varus! Varus! give me back my legions !" Tiberius, however, together with Germanicus, the brave son of Drusus, returned to the defense of the frontier, but did not venture to penetrate into the forests beyond the Rhine. In his domestic- life Augustus was singularly unfortunate. Livia, his wife, for whom he entertained a sincere affection, was a person of strong intellect and various accomplishments; but she was de- scended from the Claudian family, and inherited all the pride, am- bition, and love of political intrigue which marked the descendants of Appius Claudius. She was also married to a Claudius, and thus her two sons by her first husband, Tiberius and Drusus, were even more than herself Claudians. On them all Livia's affections were fixed ; to secure their aggrandizement she hesitated at no effort and no crime; and when Urusus died, her son Tiberius, who re- sembled his mother in disposition, became the chief object of her regard. Her husband and his family wore looked upon with jeal- 292 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XXXIX. ousy and dislike, and the darkest suspicions were aroused at Rome by the death, one by one, of every person who stood between Ti- berius and the throne. Livia had no child by her second marriage, and the only heir of Augustus was Julia, the daughter of his former wife, Scribonia. Julia was beautiful, intelligent, and highly educated ; and Augus- tus, who was strongly attached to his own family, looked upon his daughter with singular affection and pride. He hoped to see her grow up pure, wise, and discreet a new Lticretia, the representa- tive of the ideal Roman matron ; and he early accustomed Julia to practice moderation in dress, to spend hours at the spinning- wheel, and to look upon herself as destined to become the model and example of Roman women. Julia was first married to her cousin Marcellus, the son of Oc- tavia, a young man of excellent character, whom Augustus adopted, and probably destined as his successor; but, in B.C. 23, Marcellus died, amid the sincere grief of all the Romans. Marcellus has been made immortal by a few touching lines of Virgil. Gold coin of Agrippa, v, r ith hetid of Augu.-t.uu Not long after, Augustus married Julia to his friend Agrippa, and they had five children three sons, Gains, Lucius, and Agrippa Postumus, the latter being born after the death of his father, and two daughters, Julia and Agrippina. These children were now the hope of the people and the emperor, and objects of jealousy and dislike to Livia and Tiberius. In B.C. 12 Agrippa died. Augustus then prevailed upon Tibe- rius to divorce his own wife, to whom he was sincerely attached, in order to marry Julia. Their union was an unhappy one, and, after living together for about a year, they separated forever. The conduct of Julia, in fact, had long been marked by gross immoralities, and Augustus alone was unconscious of her unwor- thiness. He refused to believe that his daughter, whom he had destined to become an example of purity, had so deceived and dis- honored him. At length, however, he became convinced of her guilt, and banished her (n.c. 2) to the island Pandataria (Santa Maria), off the coast of Campania, where she was treated with just B.C. 31-A.D. 14. REIGN OF AUGUSTUS CJESAR. 293 severity. Her daughter Julia, who had shared in her excesses, was also sent into exile. Meanwhile Caius and Lucius Ccesar both died suddenly. Caius was sent to the East in B.C. 1, to improve himself in military af- fair.-;, and there died, A.D. 3, from the effects of a wound given him by an assassin. Lucius, the younger, having gone on a mission to Spain in A.D. 2, fell sick and died at Massilia. About this time Tiberius had been recalled from Rhodes and intrusted with the chief care of public affairs. It was believed at Rome that Livia and her son had removed the two C^sars by poison and assassina- tion. All happiness must now have fled from the breast of the empe- ror. He still, however, attended carefully to the duties of his sta- tion. In A.D. 4 he adopted Tiberius, together with Agrippa Pos~ turn us ; Tiberius was obliged at the same time to adopt German- icns, the eldest son of his brother Drusus. In A.D. 7 Augustus was induced to banish Agrippa Postumus, who proved unworthy of his favor, to the island of Planasin. and this act was ratified by a decree of the Senate ; it was thought, however, that Livia was again the cause of this unnatural act. In A.D. 8 the poet Ovid was banished for some unknown crime. Medal of Agrippina, showing the Carpcntum, or chariot, in which the Romn ladies were accustomed to ride. It was in the year 5 or 7 B.C., for the true date is unknown, that Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, was born at Bethlehem, in Judea. In A.D. 14, Augustus, aided by Tiberius, took a census the third during his reign. His health, which had always been delicate, now rapidly declined. He had long borne with patience the infirmities of old age, and he now retired to Nola, where he died, August 19, A.D. 14. in the same room where his father had died before him. 294 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XXXIX It is said that as he was dying he exclaimed to those around him, "Have I not acted my part well ? , It is time for the applause." He was seventy-six years old. 'His Subjects lamented his death with sincere grief, since they had felt the happv effects of his care. His funeral rites were performed in great solemnity ; his body was burned on the Campus Martins, and his ashes were placed in the splendid mausoleum which he had built for himself and his family. The Senate ordered him to be numbered among the gods of Rome. In appearance Augustus was of middle stature, his features reg- ular, and his eyes of uncommon brilliancy. He was a tolerable writer, and capable of distinguishing literary merit ; his chosen friends were all men of letters; and his fame with posterity rests, in a great degree, upon that circle of poets, historians, and eminent scholars by whom he was surrounded. The Augustan Age, in- deed, forms one of the most remarkable periods in the history of the human intellect. Medal of Augustus, showing the myrtle crown, or Corona ovalia Medal of Nero, showing an Organ ami n sprig of Laurel, probably designed as a prize medal for a musician. CHAPTER XL. FROM THE ACCESSION OF TIBEKICS, A.D. 14-37, TO DOMITIAK, A.D. 96. A FEELING resembling loyalty had grown up at Rome toward the family of Augustus, and no one ventured to dispute the claim of Tiberius to the throne. Livia, however, who had attended the death-bed of the emperor, concealed his death until her son ar- rived, and then proclaimed, at the same moment, the death of Au- gustus an d the accession of his successor. The first event of the new reign was the assassination of Agrippa Postumus, grandson of Augustus, and, according to the modern rule of descent, the proper heir to the throne. The guilt of this act was shared be- tween Tiberius and his mother, who were also accused of having hastened the death of Augustus. Tiberius summoned the Senate to assemble, announced the death of the emperor, and pretended a wish to be relieved from the cares of empire ; the Senate, however, refused to accept his feigned resig- nation, and he yielded to their wishes. This body now became the chief source of legislation. Tiberius took away from the people the power of making laws and of electing magistrates. The sena- tits consulta, or decrees of the Senate, were made the source of law, without any authority from the Comitia. The Senate selected the Consuls from four candidates presented to them by the emperor, and thus the last trace of the popular power passed away. Meanwhile two mutinies occurred among the soldiers, which 29G HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP, XI* seemed at first to threaten a change in the government. The le- gions of Pannonia, complaining of long service and indifferent pay, rose against their commander Blassus, but were induced to return to their duty by Drusus, the son of Tiberius. A more important insurrection broke out among the legions of the Rhine, who sought to prevail upon Germanicus, the son of Drusus, lo accept the impe- rial crown. Germanicus, however, who was adorned with many noble qualities, refused to yield either to their entreaties or their threats. Agrippina, his wife, with the infant Caius, joined Ger- manicus in imploring the soldiers not to forget their duty , and they at length relented, and even gave up their leaders. Germanicus had now deserved the hatred of the jealous and treacherous Tiberius. He was beloved by the people and the army, was frank, generous, and brave ; he had married Agrippina, the daughter of Julia and Agrippa, and was the adopted son of the em- peror himself. His mind had been highly cultivated, and he ex- celled in all elegant exercises. He seems, in fact, to have been one of the noblest of the Romans. In A.D. 14 he led an army across the Rhine, but the next year planned a more important expedition, in which he defeated the Germans under Arminius, and buried the remains of the army of the unfortunate Varus under an earthen mound. His third cam- paign was still more successful. In A.D. 1G he gained an import- ant battle in the valley of the Wescr, and recovered the last of the eagles lost by Varus. Tiberius, jealous of his fame, now recalled him, and resolved that the limits of the empire should not be enlarged. In A.D. 17 Germanicus triumphed, surrounded in his chariot by his five sons. The same year he was sent to the East to settle the affairs of the Eastern provinces. Meanwhile a war broke out in Germany be- tween Arminius and Marboduus. Drusus was sent thither to con- trive the destruction of both leaders, which he seems to have ef- fected, since Marboduus was driven to seek protection from the Romans, while the brave Arminius was soon after slain by the hands of his fellow-Germans. Germanicus, in A.D. 18, visited Athens, sailed up the Nile the same year, and then, having returned to Syria, died of poison ad- ministered to him by Cn. Piso, a friend of the Empress Livia. His death excited great grief at Rome, where he was buried with so- lemnity in A.D. 20. Piso, meanwhile, being tried before the Sen- ate, and finding himself about to be condemned, sought a volun- tary death. Tiberius was cold and unpopular in his manners, awkward and even timid in his carriage, but a master of dissimulation. The only A.D. 14-96. FROM TIBERIUS TO DOMITIAN. 297 person of whom he stood in awe was his mother Livia ; but he lived in constant fear of insurrection. The Lex Majestas, which he en- larged and enforced with unusual severity, was now the source of great evil to his country. This law defined treason against the emperor. Tiberius made it include words as well as acts, and thus he who spoke lightly of the emperor's person or authority might be punished with death. From this law grew up the Delatores, or informers, persons who made it their chief occupation to denounce those who were obnox- ious to the emperor. The informers soon grew numerous : some of them were persons of high rank, who sought to display their elo- quence, and to win the favor of the emperor, by denouncing his opponents in envenomed rhetoric, while others were common spies. No man's life was safe at Rome from this moment, and the purest and wisest citizens were exposed to the attacks of an infinite num- ber of delators. Tiberius encouraged the informers. JElius Sat- urninus was flung from the Tarpeian Rock for a libel upon the emperor. Silanus was banished for "disparaging the majesty of Tiberius." Tiberius, who professed to imitate the policy of Augustus in ev- ery particular, seems to have governed with firmness and ability. He improved the condition of the provinces, restrained the avarice of the provincial governors, maintained good order in the capital, and strove to check the growth of luxury ; but the morals of the capital were now hopelessly depraved, and the vice and corruption of the whole world flowed into the streets of Rome. JElius Scjanus, the Pnvfect of the Praetorians, had long been the friend and chief adviser of the emperor. He was cruel, unscru- pulous, and ambitious the proper instrument of a tyrant. In A.D. 21 an insurrection broke out in Gaul, which was scarcely subdued when the Germans rose against the Romans. The Gauls, too, led by Sacrovir, a Druid, who exercised a superstitious influ- ence over his countrymen, once more rebelled. Drusus, who had been made Consul with his father, was sent against them, and re- duced them to subjection. The Druid Sacrovir burned himself in a house to which he had fled. In A.D. 22 Drusus received the tribunitian power. He was the only son of Tiberius, and was married to Livia, or Livilla, as she was sometimes called. Sejanus had now conceived a design which led him to resolve upon the destruction of all the imperial family, since he himself began to aspire to the throne; and the elevation of Drusus filled him with disgust. In A.D. 23 he prevailed upon Tiberius to re- move all the Praetorian Guards, about nine or ten thousand in number, to a camp near the city, lie appointed their oflicers, 298 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XL. won the soldiers with bribes and flatteries, and thus believed he had gained a sure support. Drusus stood in his path, and he resolved to destroy him. He won the affections of Livilla, and prevailed upon her to poison her husband. The unhappy prince died in 23. Tiberius received the news of his son's death with a composure almost incredible. He told the Senate, who put on mourning robes, that he had given himself to his country. A splendid funeral procession was pre- pared for Drusus, in which the s"tatucs of Attus Clausus, the Saline chief, the founder of the Claudian Gens, and of JEneas, and the Alban kings, were carried side by side, thus recalling the memories of the early regal dynasty, as well as of the severe founders of the Republic. Agrippina, the widow of Germanicus, together with her numer- ous family, next aroused the hostility of Sejanus, and he resolved upon their destruction. In A.D. 25 he proposed for the hand of Livilla, but Tiberius refused to sanction the connection. In A.D. 120 eleven cities contended for the privilege of making Tiberius their tutelar deity, but he declined this honor. Soon after, the emperor, as if anxious to escape from the sarcasms and the scandal of Rome, retired from the city, accompanied by a single Senator, Cocceius Nerva, and at length, in A.D. 27, hid himself in the island of Caprese, on the coast of Campania. Here he built twelve villas in different parts of the island, and lived with a few companions, shut out from mankind. No one was allowed to land upon the shores of Capreas, and even fishermen who broke this rule through ignorance were severely punished. Every day, however, dispatches were brought from the continent, and he still continued to direct the affairs of his vast empire. Sejanus was left to govern Rome, but frequently visited the Em^ peror at his island. In A.D. 29, Livia, the widow of Augustus, died, at the age of eighty-six years, having retained her powerful intellect and her love of political intrigue to the close of her life. It is said that her private charities were great, and that she re- mained faithful to the memory of her imperial husband. The fam- ily of Germanicus, meanwhile, were crushed by the arts of Sejanus. In A.D. 29 Tiberius directed the Senate to banish Agrippina and her son Nero, and they were confined separately upon two barren islands. Drusus, the second son, was soon after imprisoned ; while Cains, the youngest, by his flatteries and caresses, preserved the fa- vor of Tiberius, and was admitted into Caprese. The emperor now began to doubt the fidelity of his chosen friend Sejanus, although their statues had been placed together in the Temple of Friendship on the Island ; and he sent a letter to the Senate in which he de- A.D. 14-9G. FROM TIBERIUS TO DOMITIAN. 290 nounced him as a traitor. Such was the end of a guilty friend- ship. Scjiinus was flung into the Mamertiuc Prison, and there strangled. The people threw his body into the Tiber, A.D. 31. Great numbers of his friends or relatives perished with him, and a general massacre filled Rome with terror. He was succeeded in his power by Sertorius Macro, who had aided in his destruction. Tiberius, meanwhile, seems to have become a raging madman. He put to death his niece Agrippina, with her two children, and ruled over the Senate with pitiless cruelty. His companion, Coc- ceius Nerva, filled with melancholy at the misfortunes of his coun- try, resolved upon suicide ; nor could all the entreaties or com- mands of Tiberius prevail upon him to live. In A.D. 35 Tiberius made his will, dividing his estate between Caius, the youngest son of Germanicus, and Tiberius Gemellus, the son of the second Dru- sus. Macro, probably fearing the fate of Sejanus, had formed a close intimacy with Caius, and they now planned the death of the emperor, whose feeble health, however, since he was near seventy- seven years of age, promised Rome a speedy deliverance. Tibe- rius died March 16, A.D. 37, Macro, it is said, having smothered him with a pillow. If we may trust the account of the Jew Philo, he left the empire in a prosperous condition. His cruelty, in fact, seems to have been exercised upon the great and the rich, while the people lived in security. His administration may be said to have been a fortunate one. His character and his crimes disgrace human nature. Reverses of Roman brass Coins, s'.owiug the Temple of Peace and a public library. He appointed lecturers upon rhetoric, with a salary of 100 sesterces, but was possessed himself of little mental cultivation. He is even said to have dis- liked literary men, and, in the year A.D. 74, expelled the Stoic and Cynic philosophers from Rome. In A.D. 70, September 2, his son Titus took the city of Jerusa- lem, after a brave defense by the Jews, who were finally betrayed by their own factions. The city was totally destroyed, and nearly half a million of the Jews perished in the siege. Those who sur- vived, being forbidden to rebuild their city, were scattered over the empire, and each Jew was compelled to pay a yearly tax of two drachma;, which was appropriated to rebuilding the Capitoline Temple. The Arch of Titus, which still exists at Rome, was erected in commemoration of the fall of Jerusalem. Vespasian's generals repressed an insurrection of the Germans, and in A.D. 71 C.Julius Agricola, father-in-law of the historian Tacitus, entered Britain as legate to Petilius Cerialis. He was made governor of the province in A.D. 77, and led his victorious armies as far north as the Highlands of Scotland. This excellent character, by his justice and moderation, reconciled the Britons to the Roman yoke. By his first wife, Flavia Domatilla, Vespasian had three chil- dren Titus, Domitian, and Domatilla. When she died he formed an inferior kind of marriage with Ccenis, a woman of low station, who, however, seems to have deserved his esteem. He died l^'kl of June, A.D. 79, at the age of seventy. Although never a refined or cultivated man, Vespasian, by his hardy virtues, restored the vigor of the Roman government, and gave peace and prosperity to his subjects ; while he who founded a library and established schools of rhetoric can not have been so wholly illiterate as some writers have imagined. 304 H1STOBY OF ROME. OIIAI-. XL. REIGN OF TITUS, A.D. 79-81. Titus was one of the most accomplished and benevolent of men. Eloquent, warlike, moderate in his desires, he was called Amor et delicice huinani yer/cris, "The love and the delight of the human race." In early life he had been thought inclined to seventy, and his treatment of the Jews, at the fall of their citv, does not seem in accordance with his character for humanity. But no sooner had he ascended the throne than he won a general affection . Such was the mildness of his government that no one was punished at Rome for political offenses. Those who conspired against him he not only pardoned, but took into his familiarity. He was so gen- erous that he could refuse no request for aid. He was resolved, he said, that no one should leave his presence sorrowful ; and he thought that day lost in which he had done no good deed. Titus wrote poems and tragedies in Greek, and was familiar with his na- tive literature. During his reign, A.D. 79, occurred a violent erup- tion of Vesuvius, together with an earthquake, by which Hercula- neum, Stabioe, and Pompeii, three towns on the Bay of Naples, were destroyed. The emperor was so touched by the sufferings of the inhabitants that he expended nearly his whole private fortune in relieving their wants. Pompeii and Herculaneum, which were covered by lava or ashes, were thus preserved from farther decay, and, having been partially excavated and restored, enable us to form a truthful conception of the domestic life of the Roman cities in the age of Titus. We here enter the villas of the rich or the humble homes of the poor, and find every where traces of comfort, elegance, and taste. The next year after the destruction of these cities, a fire broke out in Rome, which raged for three days, desolating the finest re- gions of the city. The Capitoline Temple was again destroyed, together with many buildings in the Campus Martius. A pesti- lence followed soon after, which ravaged Rome and all Italy. In A.D. 81 Titus dedicated the Colosseum, which was now com pleted, and also his famous baths, the ruins of which may still be visited at Rome. Splendid games and spectacles were exhibited in honor of these events. Few military events occurred during this reign, the empire being perfectly quiet, except where the active Agricola was subduing the wandering tribes of Scotland. At length Titus, having gone to the Sabine villa where his fa- ther Vespasian died, was himself suddenly arrested by death. It was believed that his brother Domitian was the cause of this un- happy event, and all the people lamented their emperor as if they had lost a father or a friend. Titus died September 13, A.D, 81. A.D. 14-96. FROM TIBERIUS TO DOMIT1AN. S05 REIGN OF DOMITIAN, A.D. 81-96. Dornitian, who was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers upon his brother's death, possessed the mental ability of the Flavian family, joined to the vices arid cruelty of the Claudian. In him Nero or Caligula seemed revived. His first political acts, however, were often useful, and for several years he concealed his true disposU tion. But he soon surrounded himself with spies and informers, and put to death the noblest men of his time. To preserve the fidelity of the soldiers he doubled their pay, while he won the pop- ulace by games and donations. But, to maintain his expenditure, he confiscated the property of the richer citizens, and no man of wealth was safe from an accusation of treason. Agricola, who had gained a great victory over the Caledonians at the foot of the Grampian Hills, and who was about to subdue all Scotland, Domitian recalled, being jealous of his military fame ; and that brave leader passed the last eight years of his life in retire- ment at Rome, in order to avoid the suspicions of the tyrant. Meanwhile, the Dacians, led by their king Decebalus, having crossed the Danube, Domitian took the field against them, and, in A.D. 90, was defeated, and forced to conclude a humiliating peace. Yet, on his return to Rome, he celebrated a triumph, assuming the name of Dacicus. The next year an insurrection broke out among the German legions, which was, however, suppressed. Domitian now ordered himself to be styled the " Lord and God," and was worshiped with divine honors. A ferocious jealousy of all excellence in others seemed to possess him with rage again ft the wise and good. The most eminent of the nobility were put to death. All philosophers, and among them the virtuous Epictetus, were banished from Rome. The Christians, which .name now in- cluded many persons of high station, were murdered in great num- bers. At last the tyrant resolved to put to death his wife Domi- tia,but she discovered his design, and had him assassinated, 18th September, A.D. 96. The Senate passed a decree that his name should be erased from all public monuments, and refused to yield to the wishes of the soldiers, who would have proclaimed him a god, u Copper Coin of Antoninus Pius, about A.D. 138, showing figure of Britannia. CHAPTER XLI. PROSPERITY OF THE EMPIRE, A.D. 96. COMMODUS, A.I). 180. REIGN OF M. COCCEITJS NERYA, A.D. 9G-98. THIS venerable man was sixty-four years old when lie was pro- claimed emperor upon the death of Domitian. He was a native of the town of Narnia, in Urnbria, and his virtues had won him a general esteem. The Praetorians, who had not been consulted in his election, never looked upon him with favor, and Nerva was obliged to act with great caution. He stopped trials for high trea- son, pardoned political offenders, diminished taxes, recalled exiles, and strove by every honest art to attain popularity. But the Prae- torians, becoming mutinous, not only put the murderers of Domi- tian to death, but forced the emperor to approve of their act pub- licly. This insult was deeply felt by Nerva, who now resolved to adopt a colleague, in order to increase his own authority. He therefore selected M. Ulpius Trajan, a distinguished general, who was in command of the army of Lower Germany. We now enter upon the most pleasing period in the history of the Roman Empire. During the next eighty years a general pros- perity prevailed. The emperors were all men worthy to command, and capable of giving tranquillity to their vast dominions. Several of them were of the purest morals, of high mental cultivation, and are still looked upon as ornaments of the human race ; and wliil they could not check the decline of their people, these virtuous cm perors prevented, for a time, the fall of the Koman Empire. Nerva, in order to elevate the condition of his people, purchased lands, which he distributed among them, and he sought to make them feel the necessity of labor and of self-dependence. But it was too late to reform the manners of the indolent, licentious plebs, corrupted by the indulgence of their tyrants. Nerva died of a fe- ver, January 27 > A.D, 1)8. A.D. 98-117. PROSPERITY OF THE EMPIRE. 30? M. ULPIUS TRAJANUS, A.D. 98-117. Trajan, the first emperor who was not a native of Italy, was born at Italica, in Spain, and was about forty years of age at the death of Nerva. His memory was so much revered among the Romans, that, two hundred and fifty years later, the Senate hailed the acces- sion of the new emperor with the prayer that he might be happier than Augustus, better than Trajan. He was free from every vice except an occasional indulgence in wine. His mind was natu- rally strong, his manners pleasing, his appearance noble and impo- sing. He desired only to restore the simple manners and virtuous habits of an earlier age. Trajan, after his adoption by Nerva, entered upon his high office at Cologne, and then traveled toward Rome. In A.D. 99 he en- tered that city on foot, followed by a small retinue, and was re- ceived with general good will. He abolished the trials for high treason, judlcia majestatis, which had made Rome so often a scene of terror, restored freedom of speech to the Senate, revived the Comitia for the election of magistrates, and bound himself by oath to observe the laws. He punished the principal informers, banish- ing many of them to the barren islands around Italy, while he at once, by severe measures, reduced the turbulent Praetorians to obe- dience. His wife 1'lotina, who was a woman of excellent charac- ter, with her sister Marcina, revived by their virtues the dignity of the Roman matron. The society of the city was purified, and the family of the emperor offered an example of propriety that pro- duced an excellent effect upon the manners of the higher ranks. Among the first acts of Trajan was the foundation of public schools for the education and maintenance of poor children in various parts of Italy. He founded, too, the Ulpian Library at Rome, and adorned every part of his empire with magnificent build- ings, roads, bridges, and various useful improvements. He seemed to live, in fact, Avholly for his people, and passed his life in devising and executing plans for their advantage. When Decebalus, king of the Dncians, sent to demand the trib- ute which had been promised him by Domitian, Trajan refused to be bound by the disgraceful treaty, and, having levied an army of 60,000 men, marched against the Dacians, who had boldly ad- vanced across the Danube. A terrible battle took place, in which the Romans were victorious ; but so great was the slaughter that sufficient linen could not be obtained to dress the wounds of the soldiers, and Trajan tore up his imperial robes to supply their wants. He took the capital of the Dacian king, defeated him in various encounters, and compelled him (A.D. 102) to make peace, 308 HISTORY OF HOME. giving up a part of his territory. Having re- turned to Rome, Trajan received from the Senate the surname of Dacicus. But in A.B. 104 the Dacians again rose in arms, and the Senate declared Decebalus a public enemy. Trajan led an army in person against the bar- barians, and, to provide for an easy access to their territory, built a stone bridge across the Danube of immense size and strength, forti- fied at each end with towers. He next ad- vanced into the midst of the hostile country, took the capital of the Dacians, and reduced them to subjection. Decebalus, in despair, fell by his own hand. All Dacia, comprising the modern countries of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania, was made a Roman prov- ince ; and several Roman colonies were plant- ed among the barbarians, thus for the first time preparing for the spread of civilization in that savage country. Trajan now returned to Rome, to triumph a second time for his Da- cian successes. He also began that famous Column in commemoration of his victories which still stands at Rome, and which shows in its rich sculpture the various captives and spoils of the Dacian war. Arabia Petrsea was also at this time added to the Roman Empire, after which a peace of several years succeeded. In A.D. 1 14, a Par- thian war breaking out, Trajan hastened to the East, and, having passed the winter at Antioch, witnessed a severe earthquake, which shook that city as well as all Syria. He him- self escaped with difficulty from a falling house. In the spring, at the head of his le- gions, he overran Armenia and formed it into a province. He next built a bridge across the Tigris, resembling that upon the Danube, and led his army into Assyria, a country never yet visited by a Roman general. He took Baby- lon and Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthian kingdom, and, sailing down the Tigris, passed through the Persian Gulf, and annexed a large portion of Arabia Felix to his empire. The A.D. 98-117. PROSPERITY OF THE EMPIRE. 300 Jews, too, about this time revolted, but were subdued, after a brave resistance, and treated with great severity. His Eastern conquests, however, proved by no means secure, and his new subjects revolted as soon as his armies were gone. In A.D. 117 Trajan entered South- ern Arabia to complete the subjection of that country, when he was seized with a dropsy and forced to return to Rome. He did not reach that city, but died, August 9th, A.D. 117, at Selinus, in Cilicia. His ashes were carried to Rome, and placed under the magnificent column which recorded his Dacian victories. Daring Trajan's reign, the empire, already too extensive, was made more unwieldy by his various conquests. He was evidently ambitious of the fame of a conqueror, and possessed many of the qualities of an able general. He was also a skillful ruler of his immense dominions, leaving *jo portion unprotected by his vigi- lance. The only stain upon his fame is his persecution of the Christians, whom he centred to treat with severity even when convinced of their perfect innocence. After the conclusion of the Dacian war he celebrated games and spectacles, which are said to have lasted through four months, and in which ten thousand gladiators fought and suffered for the enter- tainment of ihe people a proof that the Romans were yet, in some respects, barbarians. Trajan, however, forbade the performance of indecent pantomimes. Trajan's bridge across the Danube is de- scribed by Dion Cassias as of greater importance than any of his other works. He designed it to form an easy access to his Dacian province. It was formed of twenty stone piers, distant about 170 feet from each other, and sixty feet wide : they were probably con- nected by arches of wood. Trajan also began to make roads across the Pontine Marshes, and founded several public libraries. Pliny the younger, who lived during this reign, was the most eminent literary man of the time, and wrote a fine panegyric upon his friend the emperor. Pliny saw the first eruption of Vesuvius, in which his uncle and adopted father, the elder Pliny, perished. He was a person of great wealth and uncommon generosity, having given 300,000 sesterces yearly to maintain the children of the poor in his native town of Comum. His letters to Trajan show that he was an excellent master, husband, and friend, and we may well believe that in this happy period many Romans resembled Trajan and his learne:! correspondent. REIGN OF HADRIAN, A.D. 117-138. Hadrian, descended from a family of Hadria, in Picenum, was a military commander, distinguished for his courage and activity. 310 HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XLI. His father had married an aunt of the late emperor, who, upon the father's death, was appointed one of Hadrian's guardians. Yet it is supposed Trajan made no nomination of a successor to the throne, and that his wife Plotina forged the will bv which the world was made to believe that he had adopted Hadrian. This 'will was, however, published, and Hadrian entered upon his govern- ment at Antioch, August llth, A.D. 117, and was there .proclaimed emperor. The Senate, to whom he wrote a letter announcing his appointment, at once confirmed him in his power. He now made peace with the Parthians, and restored to Chosroes, their king, As- syria and Mesopotamia. He adopted the policy of Augustus, refus- ing to extend the limits of the empire. In A.D. 118 he returned to Rome, but was soon forced to march to the defense of the province of Moesia, which had been invaded by the Sarmatac and Roxolani. His object being merely to preserve the boundaries of the empire, he concluded a peace with the Roxolani, and probably purchased their submission. He was about to march against the Sarmata;, when the news of a conspiracy at Rome was brbught to him. He seems to have ordered the leaders to be put to death, although he afterward denied that he had done so. Having returned to Rome, he endeavored to win the affections of the people by donations, games, and gladiatorial shows. He also canceled a large amount of unpaid taxes, now due for fifteen years, and promised the Sena- tors never to punish one of their body without their approval. He divided Italy into four regions, a Consular Magistrate being placed over each; and lie introduced a new system of administration into the palace, the army, and the state, which lasted until the reign of Constantino the Great. In A.D. 119 he began a journey through all the provinces of his empire, in order to examine into their condition, and to discover and amend any faults in the system of government. Hadrian, too, was fond of travel, and was never content to remain long in repose. A lar j;c part of his reign was occupied with this important journey. He first visited Gaul and Germany, and thence, in A.D. 121, passed over into Britain. Here he found the Britons already partially civilized, but unable to defend themselves from the incursions of their neighbors the Caledonians. To protect them from these fo- rays, he built a wall across the island from the mouth of the Tyne to Solvvay, remains of which are still shown to the traveler. On his return he adorned the town of Nemausns (Nismes) with fine buildings, and then went into Spain, where he passed the winter. He returned to Rome A.D. 122, but soon after went to Athens, where he spent three years. During his residence in that city he began many magnificent buildings, and he seems to have looked A.D. 131. PROSPERITY OF THE EMPIRE. 311 upon Athens with singular affection and reverence. He visited Sicily, returned to Rome, set out for Africa, whence, after a brief visit, he once more visited Athens, to view the completion of his architectural designs. He finished the Temple of the Olympian Jupiter, the largest and most magnificent in the world, which had been commenced by Pisistratus, and left many other fine works behind him. Then he passed through Asia, inspecting the con- duct of the provincial officers, and next traveled through Syria into Egypt, where his favorite Antinous, a beautiful youth, \vns drowned. This event seems to have filled him with a lasting grief. At length, in A.D. 131, he returned to Rome. Mole of Hadrian restored. Here he published the Edictnm Perpetuum, a codification of the edicts of the Roman Praetors, which was composed by Salvius Ju- lianus, an eminent lawyer. The design of this work was to con- dense the vast body of the law into a convenient form. A revolt broke out among the Jews, Hadrian having estab- lished a colony called TKlia Capitolina on the site of Jerusalem, and, not content with introducing pagan worship into the holy city, had even issued an edict forbidding the practice of circumcision 1 This mausoleum, begun by Hadrian, i.s now the Castle of St. Angela 312 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAF.XLI These imprudent measures produced a revolt among the Jews, who, under their leader Barcochab, fought with their usual courage and desperation. The war continued for several years, during which more than half a million of Jews are said to have perished. At length Julius Severus came from Britain to lead the Roman ar- mies, and the rebellion was suppressed. The Jews were now for- bidden to live in Jerusalem or its neighborhood, and the nation was scattered over the habitable world, A war which seemed about to break out with the Albanians and Iberians in the East was prevented by Hadrian, who, with his usual policy, sent large presents to his enemies, and thus converted them into friends. He now returned from his travels to Rome, where he built his magnificent villa at Tibur, the extensive ruins of which may still be seen ; and he passed the remainder of his life cither at Tibur or in Rome. His health had been affected by his incessant labors, and in A.D. 135 he was seized with dropsy. Having no chil- dren, he adopted L. Ceionius, under the name of L. JElius Verus, a young noble, who, however, died on the first day of the year A.D. 138. Hadrian then adopted Arrius Antoninus (afterward the Em- peror Antoninus Pius), and presented him as his successor to the Senators assembled around his bed. At the same time he obliged him to adopt L. Commodus Verus, the son of the former Verus, and also M. Annius Verus, the future Emperor Marcus Aurelins- 111 health seems now to have fatally affected the mind and dispo- sition of Hadrian. He became morose and cruel. Ho put many eminent nobles to death, and is said to have sunk into debauchery at his Tiburtine villa. His disease proving incurable, he several times attempted suicide; but having removed to Baise, hoping for some relief in that fine climate, he died there July 10th, A.U. 138, aged sixty-tln-ce. He was buried in the villa of Cicero, near Pute- oli. When the Senate, enraged at his cruelties in the latter part of his life, wished to annul his acts, and would have refused him divine honors, Antoninus interposed, and excused his adopted father on the plea that ill health had disordered his mind. For this filial conduct he received the name of Pius. The Senate not only num- bered Hadrian among the deities, but ordered temples to be erected in his honor. He left the empire prosperous and at peace. Dur- ing his reign the Senate lost its importance in the administration of affairs, since Hadrian supplied its place by a Consistorium Prin- tipis, or council, composed of eminent men, presided over by a dis- tinguished lawyer. Hadrian was fond of letters and the arts, and adorned every part of his empire with fine buildings or useful works. Wherever he traveled lie did something for the benefit of his subjects. A.D. 138-16 J. PROSPERITY OF THE EMPIRE 313 Reverse of a brass Coin of Antoninus HUB. RKIGN OF ANTONINUS PIUS, A.D. I38-1G1. This excellent man was born at Lanuvium, September 19th, A.D. 86, but his family came from the town of Nemausis (Nismes), in Gnul. Soon after his accession to the empire he married his daughter Faustina to Marcus Aurelius, procured for him the tribu- nitian and proconsular power from the Senate, and made him his associate in the labors of the government. His tranquil and pros- perous reign is the most pleasing period in the history of the Ro- man Empire. The world enjoyed a general peace, and the emperor endeavored, by every wise measure, to secure the prosperity of his subjects. Like Numn, to whom he has often been compared, An- toninus was the peacemaker between distant nations, who were ac- customed to submit their differences to him, and to abide implicitly by his award. lie checked the persecutions to which the Chris- tians had been exposed in former reigns, and to him Justin Martyr addressed his apology for Christian hy. He watched carefully the conduct of the provincial governors, and applied the public reve- nues to founding schools, repairing roads and harbors, and encour- nging every where industry and trade. When Asia and Rhodes tveic devastated by an earthquake, Antoninus expended large sums in relieving the sufferers by that calamity, as well as those who were reduced to indigence by the great fires which nearly destroyed Carthage, Narbonne, and Antioch, in A.D. 153. He appointed teachers of rhetoric in various cities of the empire, conferred hon- ors and emoluments upon men of letters, and in A.D. 141 founded a charity-school for orphan girls, whom he styled Puellte Al.ime.nta- 3U HISTORY OF HOME. CHAP. XLI. ri(e Fav stiniancF, in memory of his wife Faustina, who had died the year he!', ire. Faustina, however, does not seem to have merited his esteem, and the emperor was well acquainted with her faults ; yet he generously overlooked them while she lived, and upon her death paid unusual honors to her memory. His piety, his devotion to the national religion, and his various virtues, seem to have won for him universal love and veneration, and his successors during the next centurv assumed the name of Antoninus as their worthiest title. Antoninus made no attempt to extend the boundaries of the em pire. The barbarous races who were now beginning to swarm upon the frontiers, the Germans and the Dacians, were held in check; and although the Brigantes made several inroads into Brit- ain, they were defeated by A. Lollius, the Legate, in A.D. 141 ; and a wall of turf was raised beyond the former wall built by Agricola to check the incursions of the Caledonians. This peaceful reign, however, seems to have increased the general indolence of the peo- ple, and the martial spirit of the Roman soldiers declined in the idleness of their stationary camps. After a reign of twenty-three years, Antoninus died, March 7th, A.D. 161, in his villa at Lorium, aged seventy-five years. REIGN OF MARCUS ATJRELIU8 ANTONINUS, A.D. 1G1-180. He was succeeded by Aurelius, who was born at Rome A.D. 121. This prince is known as the Philosopher ; and the wish of Plato that philosophers might be kings, or kings philosophers, seems to have been fulfilled at his accession. Aurelius had been from his youth a lover of truth. Ilis morals and his intellect were trained by the purest and wisest men of his age. He had studied under Herodes Atticus and Cornelius Fronto, two famous rhetoricians, and also under the Stoic philosophers Junius Rusticus and Apol- lonius ; and he had been constantly employed by his adopted fa- ther Antoninus as an associate in all his useful and benevolent de- signs. His health was, however, delicate, and he now admitted to a share in the empire his adopted brother, L.Vcrus, who possessed a vigorous constitution, but Avas addicted to licentious pleasures, i The general peace which had prevailed during the reign of Mar. cus Antoninus was forever passed a\\ay, and the world was in fu- ture to be desolated by almost perpetual hostilities. The Parthian king Vologeses III. having invaded the eastern provinces, and cut to pieces a Roman legion, L. Verus was sent to oppose his advance ; but upon arriving at Antioch, Verus remained there, plunged in dissipation, while his brave lieutenant Avidius Cassius drove back A.D. 161-180. PROSPERITY OF THE EMPIRE. 315 the Parthians, invaded Mesopotamia, destroyed Seleucia, and pen- etrated to Babylon. Another Roman general conquered Armenia, and restored the legitimate king Soamius to his throne. At the close of the war, Verus, A.D. 1GG, returned to Rome, and triumphed. His army brought the plague with it from the East, which now desolated Italy and Rome. Many illustrious men died ; but the fa- mous physician Galen (Claudius Galenus), who had come from Per- gamus to Rome, was now enabled to exhibit his uncommon pro- fessional skill. This pestilence lasted for several years. Verus died of intemperance A.D. 171, and Auvelius prevailed upon the Senate to rank him among the gods. He now marched against the Marcomanni, but was defeated in a great battle, and, in order to provide a new army, sold the imperial plate and jewels. He now took up a position at Sirmium (Siimich), and endeavored to wear out the barbarians by skirmishes and sudden attacks, with- out venturing far from his strong-hold. At length, however, upon one occasion, having been drawn into a defile, the Roman army was relieved by a fierce storm of thunder and rain, which terrified the barbarians. Tradition attributes this sudden storm to the prayers of a Christian legion. The barbarians now submitted, and withdrew beyond the Danube. Soon after, an insurrection broke out in Syria, where Avidius Cassius, at the instigation, it is said, of the emperor's wife Faustina, had proclaimed himself emperor. But Cassius, by his severity, dis- gusted his own soldiers, and was assassinated by a centurion. Aurclius lamented this event, since it deprived him of an oppor- tunity of showing clemency to an erring friend. He at once set out for the East, and there freely forgave all those who had con- spired against him. He took the young family of Cassius under his protection, and ordered the papers of that officer to be destroy- ed, lest they might disclose the names of the conspirators. Fausti- na, who had accompanied her husband to Cilicia, died soon after, it is said, by her own hand. It is remarkable that this philosophic emperor should have per- mitted a cruel persecution of the Christians in A.D. 177, perhaps at the instigation of the Stoic philosophers the only blot upon his general humanity and benevolence. Among the victims of this persecution was Justin Martyr, the author of the Apologies for Christianity, addressed to Antoninus, as well as to Aurelius him- self. Toward the close of his reign, having become convinced of the falseness of the charges made against the Christians, Aurelius became once more tolerant and philosophic. In A.D. 17G the emperor triumphed at Rome for his various sue. cesses. He gave a donation of eight pieces of gold to every citi- 31G HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XLI. zen, and made his son Commodus his colleague. In the mean time the barbarians in the interior of Europe, moved by a general im- pulse, began to press upon the frontiers of the empire, and from this time seem never to have ceased their inroads until the final destruction of the Roman power. Aurelius marched, A.D. 177, to the frontier, defeated the barbarians in various engagements, and had perhaps proved the savior and second founder of Rome, when he was seized with a fever at Vindobona (Vienna), A.D. 180, and died after a few days' illness. lie was the last of the Roman em' perors who labored for the welfare of his people. He was, no doubt, the greatest and wisest of them all, and he united the differ- ent talents of a man of learning, a fine writer, a skillful soldier, and a benevolent, judicious ruler. His " Meditations, " which have made him known to posterity, are among the most delightful pro- ductions of the human intellect, while his private character seems to have been no less attractive than his writings. REIGN OF M. COMMODUS ANTONINUS, A.D. 180-192. The depraved Commodus succeeded his virtuous father at tho age of twenty. He had been educated with singular care, but was wholly given up to coarse sensuality. The people, however, still hoped that he might be worthy of his father, and received him, upon his accession, Avith loud expressions of joy. For a short time he concealed his true disposition ; but his sister Lucilla, jealous of her brother's wife Crispina, formed a conspiracy against him in A.D. 182, and he escaped with difficulty from the hand of the as- sassin. From this moment he threw off all disguise, and indulged his natural vices without restraint. He put to death the most il- lustrious men of the time, encouraged informers and false accusa- tions, and tilled Rome with terror. In the midst of these cruelties he often sang, danced, or played the buffoon in public, fought as a gladiator in the circus, and ordered the people to worship him as a second Hercules. His lieutenant Marcellus, in A.D. 184, defeated the Caledonians, after they had passed the long wall of Hadrian, and had ravaged the northern part of Britain ; and in A.D. 191 an invasion of the Frisians was repelled. Commodus, however, paid no attention to the affairs of the empire. In A.D. 189 Italy suffer- ed from a pestilence and famine, when the people of Rome rose against the emperor's praefect, Cleander, and tore him to pieces Commodus still continued his murders, and was at last assassinated by the directions of his mistress, Marcia, whose death he had re- solved upon. He died December 31st, A.D. 192. The Senate or- dered his memory to be held infamous, and his body to be dragged A.D. 102. PROSPERITY OF THE EMPIRE. 317 by iron hooks through the streets, and then to be thrown into the Tiber ; but his successor Pertinax prevailed that it should be placed in the mausoleum of Hadrian. Such was the son of Marcus Au= relius. Commodus. Pertinax. CHAPTER XLII. FROM PEKTJNAX TO DIOCLETIAN. A.D. 192-284. PERTTXAX, an aged senator of consular rank, and now Prefect of the city, was summoned by the conspirators, who came to his house late at night, after the murder of Commodus, to ascend the vacant throne. He was one of the few friends and ministers of Marcus Aurelius who yet survived, and. having filled many im- portant offices, had always been distinguished for firmness, pru- dence, and integrity. The rumor was spread that Commodus had died of apoplexy, and that Pertinax had succeeded him ; but the Praetorian Guards were dissatisfied at his election. The Senate, however, confirmed the choice of the conspirators, and Pertinax lived among his own order rather as an equal than a master. His manners were simple, his mode of life frugal, and he sought to re- vive the pleasing simplicity of the early Republic. Pertinax administered justice with stiictness, released those who had been left in prison by Commodus, reformed the finances and introduced economy, redivided the uncultivated lands among those who would till them, removed oppressive restrictions upon trade, and deserved the respect of the wiser portion of his subjects. But the Praetorians were never reconciled to his rule, and on the 28th of March, A.D. 193, eighty-six days after his election, they A.D. 192-284. PERTINAX TO DIOCLETIAN. 319 broke into the imperial palace, and struck down the emperor with innumerable blows. His head was separated from his body, and, being placed upon a lance, was carried in triumph to the Praeto- rian camp, while the people silently lamented the death of this vir- tuous ruler. The soldiers, meanwhile, proclaimed from, the ramparts of their camp that the throne of the world would be sold at auction to the highest bidder. Didius Julianus, a wealthy Senator, whose age had not quenched his vanity and ambition, offered about a thou- sand dollars to each man for the possession of the prize. He was declared emperor, and, surrounded by the armed Praetorians, was carried to the Senate, who were forced to accept the selection of the soldiers. But the Senators and the people felt deeply the dis- grace of their country, and even the Praetorians were ashamed of their unworthy choice. Julianus found himself on the throne of the world without a friend. The armies in the provinces, when they heard of these transac- tions at the capital, rose in revolt, and refused to acknowledge the authority of Julian. Clodius Albinos commanded the legions in Britain, Septimius Severus those in Pannonia, and Pescennius Ni Septimiua Severus. ger the army of the East. Severus, more active than his competi- tors, was saluted by his soldiers as emperor, and marched rapidly toward Rome. Julian, deserted by the Praetorians, was condemned to death by the Senate, and was executed as a common criminal 320 HISTORY OF KOME. CiiAr.XLU after a reign of only sixty-six days. Severus was acknowledged as their lawful emperor by the Senate, June 2, A.D. 193, and his first act was to disarm the Praetorian Guards and banish them from the capital. He next marched against Niger, and defeated him in two bat ties, wliib he was also successful in a severe contest with Clodius Albinus at Lyons. Both of his competitors were put to death, and iSeverus, now set free from fear of rivalry, began to show the native cruelty of his disposition. Forty-one Senators, whom he accused of having favored Albinu?, were executed, with their wives and children ; and many of the provincial nobles of Spain and Gaul shared their fate. Yet Severus was in many respects a useful ruler ; strict in the administration of the laws, careful to correct abuses, and restraining his subjects with stern impartiality. Peace returned to the provinces, cities were repeopled, roads repaired, Rome abounded in provisions, and the people were satisfied. Sev- erus changed the constitution of the Praetorian Guards, and filled up their ranks with the bravest soldiers of the legions of the frontier. These barbarians, he thought, would be able to suppress any rebel- lion that might arise ; and he increased the number to fifty thou- sand men. The Prefect of the Praetorians, who had at first been a simple soldier, now became the chief minister of the emperor, and was at the head of the finances and even of the law. The celebrated lawyer Papinian was appointed Pracfect after the fall of Plautianus ; and several great jurisconsults, particularly Paulus and Ulpian, flourished under the reign of Severus or his family. Severus, however, was a military despot, and, despising the fee- ble Senate, assumed both the legislative and the executive power. The jurisconsults, in fact, from this reign, begin to treat the em- peror as the source of all law, the Senate and the people being no longer considered in the state. But this arbitrary rule, introduced by Severus, is thought to have tended more than any thing else to destroy the vigor of the Roman Empire, by leading the people to an abject dependence upon their rulers. The wife of Severus, Julia Domna, a Syrian lady of great beauty and various accomplishments, became the mother of two sons, Car- acalla and Geta, and the emperor hoped that they would prove worthy of the high office to which they were born. They soon, however, showed themselves incapable of any serious study or em- ployment, and were chiefly remarkable for the hatred they bore to- ward each other. The court was already divided into two factions, composed of the adherents of cither son ; and the emperor, who in vain strove to remove their rivalry, foresaw that one must fall a victim to the hatred of the other. A.D. 1U2-284. PERTINAX TO DIOCLETIAN. 321 In A.D. 208 a war broke out in Britain, and Severus, although DOW more than sixty years of age, and afflicted with the gout, so that he was carried on a litter, set out at the head of his army, at- tended by his two sons, and penetrated into the interior of Scot- land. This was his last enterprise, for he died at York, February 4, A.D. 211. He left his empire to his two sons, who returned to Rome, and were acknowledged by the Senate and the Caracalla. Their discord, however, still continued, and they planned a divi~ sion of the empire, a measure which was then distasteful to all the Romans, and which was only prevented from taking place by the tears and entreaties of their mother, Julia Domna. Geta, the younger son, who was of a gentle disposition, soon after, in A.D. 212, February 27th, was murdered by the cruel and relentless Caracalla. Twenty thousand of his friends are said to have been put to death at the same time, and his unhappy mother, Julia Domna, was forced to receive her guilty son with feigned smiles and words of approbation. Remorse, however, fastened upon Caracalla, and tho shade of Geta haunted him wherever he went. His cruelties now redoubled. He put to death Papinian, the Praetorian Prefect, the splendid ornament of the Roman bar ; and his massacres filled ev- ery part of the empire with mourning and terror. In A.D. 213 he left the city of Rome, and never returned thither again ; the rest of his reign was passed in the provinces, and wherever he came he indulged himself in endless murders, confiscations, and acts of vio- lence. "He was," says Gibbon, "the common enemy of man- kind." He directed a general massacre of the people of Alexan- 322 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XLII. dria, who had lampooned him, and viewed the scene from a secure post in the Temple of Serapis. To retain the affections of his army, he lavished upon them immense sums, the plunder of his empire; and he was at length assassinated, March 8, A.D. 217, at the instigation of Macrinus, one of the Pnttorian Praefects, who had discovered that the tyrant had planned his own death. Macrinus, Prasfect of the Praetorian Guard, was elected emperor March 11, A.D. 217, and the Senate and the provinces submitted without a murmur. But the new emperor was disliked by the no- bles on account of his humble origin, and soon offended his army by endeavoring to reform their discipline. The Empress Julia now withdrew by a voluntary death from the sorrow which sur- rounded her, and the family of Severus became extinct. A rebel- lion broke out in the Syrian army, who proclaimed Bassianus, the grandson of Julia Ma5sa, sister of the late empress, and who as- sumed the name of Antoninus. He pretended that he was the natural son of Caracalla. A battle took place, in which Macrinus was defeated, and soon after put to death ; and Elagabalus, for that is the name under which this monster is commonly known, ascend- ed the throne. He at once plunged into every vice. The sun was worshiped at Emessa under the name of Elagabalus, from whence the new em- peror derived his surname, having been a priest in the temple ; and he now introduced the lascivious rites of the Syrian deity into the capital of the world. A magnificent temple of the god Ela- gabalus was raised on the Palatine Mount, and the grave and dig- nified nobles of Home were forced to take part in the ceremonies, clothed in long Phoenician tunics. It would be impossible to describe the vices of this wretched be- ing, who seems to have sunk to the very extreme of depravity. His cousin, however, Alexander Scvcrus, as if to show that human na- ture had not wholly declined, was amiable, virtuous, and learned. Elagabalus was murdered by the Praetorians March 10, A.D. 222, and Alexander placed upon the throne. Alexander Severus seems to have inclined toward (he Christian faith, which was now very widely extended throughout the empire,. He revoked all former edicts against the Christians, and ordered the words "Do unto others as you would have them do to you" to be inscribed upon his palaces and other buildings. The Persian Empire was now arising in new strength under the house of the Sassanides, and a war having broken out with them, Alexander marched against the Persians, and gained a considerable victory. He returned to Rome in triumph, and entered the city in a chariot drawn by four elephants. Soon after, the Germans having invaded A.D. 192-284. PERTINAX TO DIOCLETIAN. 323 Gaul, he led his army to the defense of the frontier ; but, while at. tempting to reform the discipline of the Gallic legions, he was as- sassinated by a band of discontented soldiers, and Maximin, a Thracian peasant of great personal strength, who had risen to a high command in the army, was raised to the throne. Alexander Severua. Maximin, A.D. 235, began his reign by massacring many of the friends of the late emperor, and even all those who showed any regret for his death. He was a fierce, ignorant barbarian, but was very successful in his Avars against the Germans, having ravaged their country, and sent great numbers of them to be sold as slaves in Italy. He also defeated the Dacians and Sarmatians. But his severities produced a revolt in Africa, where the legions proclaimed their proconsul Gordian emperor, then in the eightieth year of his age. The Senate now revolted against Maximin, and ordered all his friends in Rome to be put to death. Maximin now made peace with the barbarians, and marched toward Italy, while, in the mean time, Gordian and his son were defeated and slain in Africa. The Senate immediately elected Papianus and Balbinus emperors, to whom, in order to gratify the people, they joined the younger Gor- dian, then only twelve years of age. Maximin entered Italy and besieged Aquileia, but his soldiers, weary of the length of the siege, put him to death, A.D. 238. The Goths on the Danube and tho Persians in the East now assailed the empire, and at the same time the Praetorian Guards murdered his two associates, leaving Gordian sole emperor of Rome. Gordian was married to the daughter of Misitheus, Prefect of the Praetorians, an excellent min- ister and commander. Together they marched to the East, and 324 HISTORY OF ROME. CiiAr.XLU defeated the Persians under their king Sapor, in various engage, ments. Misitheus now died, and Gordian appointed the Arab Philip his prime minister. Sapor was again defeated ; but the Arab conspired against Gordian, his benefactor, wLo was assassina- ted in A.D. 244. Philip, having made peace with the Persians, returned to Rome, where ho won the favor of the people by his mild conduct. In his reign the secular games were celebrated, it being reckoned one thousand years since the foundation of the city. Philip ruled with mildness, and was an enemy to persecution. In A.D. 249, how- ever, the Illyrian army revolted, and proclaimed their commander, Trajan us Decius, emperor, who defeated Philip near Verona, and put him to death. His son, who had remained at Rome, was slain by the Praetorian Guards. In A.D. 250 the Goths invaded the empire. These fierce bar- barians came from the north of Europe, and were among the cliief instruments of the fall of Rome. Decius, who does not seem to have wanted skill and courage, was finally defeated and slain by them, together with his son. Decius is remembered as one of the most cruel persecutors of the Christians. The innocent victims of his rage were subjected to torture, driven to hide in the wilder- ness among rocks and forests, and were glad to live among the wild beasts, more humane than man. The Bishop of Rome, Fa- bian, the bishops of Antioch and Alexandria, and many more em- inent in the Church, suffered from the unrelenting severity of this persecutor. A son of Decius, Hostilianus, together with Gallus, an experi- enced soldier, were now made emperors. They concluded a dis- graceful, but probably necessary peace with the Goths. But Hos- tilianus soon after died, and Gallus was defeated and slain by JEmilianus, who was himself assassinated, and Valerian, the Censor, in A.D. 253, was made emperor. A very high character is given of this ruler, whose reign, however, was filled with disasters. Hav- ing joined his son Gallienus with him. Valerian vainly sought to repel the attacks of innumerable enemies on every side of the em pire the Goths, the Franks, the Scythians, and the Persians. In a campaign against the latter Valerian was taken prisoner, and for nine years languished in captivity, his unnatural son making no effort for his liberation. The Allemanni, meanwhile, had entered Italy, ravaged its north- ern territory, and even threatened Rome. They withdrew, loaded with plunder. To gain allies among the barbarians, Gallienus now married the daughter of the king of the Marcomanni. Every part of the empire seems now to have been laid open to the invad- A.D. 102-284. PERTINAX TO DIOCLETIAN. 325 ers. Greece was ravaged by the Goths ; the famous Temple of Diana at Ephesus was burned by them, together with that fine city ; and Sapor, king of the Persians, overran Syria and Asia. He was, however, finally repelled by the brave Odenatus, who, with his queen Zenobia, ruled at Palmyra. Valerian died in captivity, while a crowd of usurpers rose in arms against the weak Gallienus. There were nineteen pretend- ers to the throne according to Gibbon, but this period is usually known as that of the Thirty Tyrants. This melancholy period was also marked by a pestilence, which raged for fifteen years in every province. Five thousand persons are said to have died daily nt Rome for some time ; cities were depopulated, and the number of the human species must have sensibly declined. A famine pre- ceded and attended the pestilence, earthquakes were common, and the third century is, no doubt, the most melancholy period in the history of Europe. Gallienus was murdered in A.D. 2G8, and was succeeded by Mar- cus Aurelius Claudius, who died of a pestilence which had broken out in his army in EgypL Aurelian, a native of Pannonia, was the next emperor. His reign lasted four years and nine months, but was filled with remarkable events. He abandoned Dacia to the Goths, defeated the Alemanni, and drove them out of Italy. But he foresaw the danger of future invasions, and surrounded Rome with new walls about twenty-one miles in extent. In A.D. 272 he marched against Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, who ventured to defy the power of Rome. This illustrious woman was not only learned, beautiful, and an agreeable writer, but governed the East for five years with discretion and success. Aurelian was amazed at her warlike preparations upon the fall of Palmyra, and treated her beautiful city with lenity ; but the Palmyrenians having re- belled, the city was taken by storm, and its people put to death. The ruins of Palmyra are still among the most remarkable of the ancient world. Aurelian now returned to Rome to celebrate his triumph. The spoils of every climate were borne before him ; his captives wece from Germany, Syria, and Egypt, and among them were the Em- peror Tetricus and the beautiful Zenobia, bound with fetters of gold. A whole clay was consumed in the passage of the triumphal procession through the streets of Rome. But Aurelian, who was illiterate, unpolished, and severe, failed to win the regard of his people, and was plainly more at his ease at the head of his army than in the cultivated society of Rome. He returned, therefore, to the East, where he died, as was usual with so many of the em- 326 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XLtt perors, by the hand of an assassin, in A.D. 275. He restored vigor to the empire, and preserved it from instant destruction. The army, filled with sorrow for the loss of the emperor, re- venged his death by tearing his assassin in pieces ; and they then wrote a respectful letter to the Senate, asking the Senators to se- lect his successor. The Senate, however, passed a decree that tho army should name the new emperor. The soldiers, in their turn, refused, and thus for eight months an interregnum prevailed while this friendly contest continued. At last the Senate appointed the virtuous Tacitus, who claimed a descent from his namesake, tho famous historian. Tacitus, however, who was seventy years old, sank under the hardships of his first campaign, and died A.D. 276, at Tyania, in Cappadocia. His brother Florian then ascended the throne, but was defeated and put to death by Probus, the best soldier of the age, who, in six years, once more repelled the barbarians from every part of the empire. He delivered Gaul from the ravages of the Germans, pursued them across the Rhine, and every where defeated them. He suppressed, also, several insurrections, and employed his sol- diers in various useful works. But at length, weary of these la- bors, they put Probus to death, A.D. 282. Carus, the next emperor, was singularly frugal in his mode of life. When the Persian embassadors visited him in his tent they found him sitting upon the grass, clothed in a coarse robe, and eat- ing his supper of bacon and hard pease. Carus gained many vic- tories over the Persians, but died suddenly in A.D. 283. His two sons, Carinus and Numerian, succeeded him, but were soon einated, giving place to the more famous Diocletian. The (Jourt-yard of Diocletian's Palace at Spalatro. CHAPTER XLIII. FROM DIOCLETIAN, A.D. 284, TO CONSTANTINE'S DEATH, A.D. 337. DIOCLETIAN began to reign A.D. 284, and once more revived the vigor of the declining empire, which now seemed more than ever to depend for its existence upon the qualities of a single ruler. It seems, indeed, to have required an intellect of no common order to preserve the unity of the empire, composed of so many different nations, of territories separated by such vast distances, and threat- ened on every side by innumerable foes ; but, of all his contempo- raries, Diocletian was best suited to this task. His parents had been the slaves of a Roman Senator, and he had himself risen from this low station to the highest positions in the army. He acted with generosity toward the servants of the former emperor, not only suf- fering them to remain in safety under his rule, but even to retain 328 HISTOEY OP EOME. CHAP. XLIIJ their offices. Finding the empire too large to be governed by a single ruler, he selected as his colleague Maximian, a brave, but fierce and ignorant soldier, who, like himself, had risen to a high rank in the army. Maximian, however, always admitted the in- tellectual superiority of Diocletian. The emperor assumed the ti- tle of Jovius, and Maximian that of Herculius. Diocletian also appointed two Ceesars, Constantius and Galerius, to aid him in the defense of the empire, which was divided between the four princes. Gaul, Spain, and Britain were intrusted to the care of Constantius, ttaly and Africa to Maximian, Galerius commanded the legions on the Danube, while Diocletian reserved for himself Thrace, Egypt, and Asia. The four rulers seemed to have labored together in harmony, but the establishment of four courts in different parts of the empire obliged them to increase the taxes, and every province suffered under new impositions. Even Italy, which had always been favored in this particular, was now heavily burdened, and ev- ery where lands were abandoned and left uncultivated because their owners could not pay the taxes and impositions. In A.D. 287 a rebellion occurred in Gaul, which was suppressed by Maximian ; soon after, Carausius, having become master of Britain, and pos- sessing a considerable fleet, defied the power of the emperor ; but when Constantius was appointed Caesar he prepared to reduce the island to subjection. In A.D. 294 Carausius was put to death by Allectus, a new usurper. Constantius now crossed the Channel and recovered the island, which, after a separation of ten years, was once more reunited to the empire. During this reign the Goths, Vandals, and other northern barbarians wasted their strength in destructive contests with each other ; but whenever, in intervals of peace, they invaded the Roman territory, they were driven back by the valor of the two Cjesars. Maximian, in the mean time, subdued a revolt in Africa ; and Diocletian himself suppressed one of those seditions to which Egypt was constantly exposed. The emperor besieged Alexandria for eight months, cut off the aque- dncts which conveyed water to the city, and, having taken it, put many thousands of its citizens to death. One remarkable edict which he now published forbade the study of alchemy in Egypt, and ordered all books upon that subject to be burned. He also made a treaty with the Nubians, in order to protect the frontiers of Egypt. It gives us, indeed, a clear view of the immense extent of the Roman power when we reflect that its commanders were, almost at the same moment, struggling successfully against its enemies in Africa, Britain, Germany, and the East. A war with Persia now arose, in which Galerius was at first defeated, A.D. 296. But the \ A.D. 284-337. DIOCLETIAN TO CONSTANTINE. 320 next year lie passed through the mountains of Armenia at the head of twenty- five thousand chosen men, and, having surprised the Per< sian army in the night, slaughtered great numbers of them ; the booty, too, was immense. A barbarian soldier, finding a bag of shining leather filled with pearls, threw away the contents and pre- served the bag ; and the uncultivated savages gathered a vast spoil from the tents of the Persians. Galerius, having taken prisoners several of the wives and children of the Persian monarch Narses, treated them with such tenderness and respect that Narses made peace. Mesopotamia was now added to the empire, being taken from the King of Armenia, who received in its place a considera- ble Persian province. The two emperors returned to Rome and celebrated their triumph November 20, A.D. 303, the last spectacle of that kind which the world has witnessed. Romulus, more than a thousand years be- fore, had ascended the Capitoline Mount on foot, bearing in his arms the spoil of Acron, and his example had been followed by a long line of Reman heroes. In the last triumph, the two emperors were attended by the spoils of Africa and Britain, of the East and the West. During this reign also occurred the last persecution of the Chris- tians, who were soon to become the masters of the empire. It be- gan A.D. 303, and continued for ten years; and such multitudes of the Christians perished that the emperors boasted that they had wholly extirpated the sect ! Diocletian introduced an Eastern pomp into his court, assumed the titles of "Lord a.id Emperor," and wore a diadem set with pearls. His robes were of silk and gold. He required his subjects to prostrate themselves before him, and to adore him as a divinity. In A.D. 305, like Charles V., he resolved to abdicate his power, having persuaded his colleague Maximian to do the same : he lived in retirement for nine years, and amused himself cultivating his gar- den. " I wish you would come to Salona" (Spalatro), he wrote to Maximian, who sought to draw him from his retirement, "and see the cabbages I have planted : you would never again mention to me the name of empire." But the close of his life was embittered by the ingratitude of Constantino andLicinius, and the dangers of the empire. It is not known whether he died by disease or by his own hand. Upon the abdication of Diocletian and his colleague, the two Caesars, Constantius and Galerius, assumed the title of Augustus. Constantius retained his former provinces, Gaul, Spain, and Britain. He was moderate, amiable, and lived with Roman simplicity. Ga- lerius, on the other hand, was haughty, severe, and ambitious. lie 330 HISTORY OF ROME. CuAP.XLIIL had married a daughter of Diocletian, and hoped that the death of Constantius would soon leave him the sole emperor of Rome. The two emperors now appointed two Caesars, Maximin and Severus, the first nephew to Galerius, and the latter devoted to his interests. Constantius died at York, in Britain, A.D. 306, and his son Constan- tino was proclaimed Augustus by the soldiers. (Jonstantine and Fs This prince, afterward Constantino the Great, was the son of Con stantius and Helena, who was said to have been the daughter of an inn-keeper. When Constantius became Cassar he divorced Helena, anJ her son was, in a measure, neglected. Constantino, however, soon distinguished himself as a soldier, and won the affection of the army. In appearance lie was tall, dignified, and pleasing ; ho ex- celled in all military exercises, was modest, prudent, and well in- formed. He soon attracted the jealousy of Galerius, who would have put him to death had he not escaped to his father in Britain ; and now Galerius refused to allow him any higher title than that of Csesar. Maxentius, the son of the abdicated emperor Maximum, was also proclaimed Augustus by his soldiers, and prevailed upon his father once more to ascend the throne. Severus, who marched against them, was defeated and put to death ; and Constantino now mar- ried Fausta, the daughter of Maximian. Galerius led a large army from the East, but was repulsed from Rome and retreated, leaving Maximian and his son masters of the capital. Galerius next asso- A.D. 284-337. DIOCLETIAN TO CONSTANTINE. 331 ciatcd Licinius with him in his power, and there were now six sover- eigns upon the throne. In A.D. 310, however, Maximian, having conspired against the life of Constantino, was put to death ; Galerius died the next year; in A.D. 312 Maxcntius fell before the arms of Constantino, and was drowned in the Tiber while attempting to make his escape. It was during this campaign that Constantino is said to have seen the mi- raculous cross in the heavens. The Roman Senate paid unusual honors to Constantino ; games and festivals were instituted in memory of his victory over Maxen- tius, and a triumphal arch was erected, whose imperfect architecture shows the decline of ancient taste. The Arch of Trajan was strip- ped of its ornaments to adorn that of Constantino. Arch of Constantino. The new emperor introduced good order into the administration of the West, revived the authority of the Senate, and disbanded tho Praetorian Guards ; he revoked the edicts against the Christians, and paid unusual deference to the bishops and saints of the Church. The Emperor Licinius, who had married his sister, in A.D. 313 de- feated and put to de^th Maximin, so that the empire was now shared between Constantino and Licinius. The former now summoned a council of bishops at Aries to sup- press tho heresy of the Donatists, but, before it met, was forced to march against Licinius, who had conspired against him. Liciniu? was defeated in two battles, and forced to give up a large part of his dominions to his conqueror. Constantine next defeated tho 332 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XLIII. Goths and Sarmatsc. Licinius had assumed the defense of Pagan- ism, while Constantine raised the standard of the Cross. The last struggle between them took place near Adrianople ; the Pagan army was defeated and put to flight, and in A.I>. 32-1 Licinius was put to death. Thus Constantine reigned alone over the empire of Au- gustus. At the famous Council of Nice, which met in A.D. 325, the doc- trine of the Trinity was established, Arianism condemned, and at the same time the emperor was, in effect, acknowledged to be the spiritual head of the Church. But an event now occurred which must have destroyed forever the happiness of Constantine. He was induced to put to death his virtuous son Crispus, through the false accusations of his wife Fausta, and when afterward he discovered the falseness of the charges made against Crispus, he directed Faus- ta and her accomplices to be slain. Rome, which had so long been the capital of the -world, was now to descend from that proud position and become a provincial city. When Constantine returned to Rome after the Council of Nice, he found himself assailed with insults and execrations. The Senate and the people of the capital saw with horror the destroyer of their national faith, and they looked upon Constantine as accursed by the gods. The execution of his wife and son soon after increased the ill feeling against the emperor, and Constantine probably resolved to abandon a city upon which he had bestowed so many favors, and which had repaid him with such ingratitude. He was conscious, too, that Rome, seated in the heart of Italy, was no longer a con- venient capital for his empire, and he therefore resolved to build a new city on the site of ancient Byzantium. The Bosphorus, a nar- row strait, connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora ; and here, on a triangular piece of ground, inclosing on one side an ex- cellent harbor, Constantine laid the foundations of his capital. It was situated in the forty-first degree of latitude, possessed a tem- perate climate, and a fertile territory around it ; while, being placed on the confines of both Europe and Asia, it commanded the two di- visions of the empire. Constantinople was adorned with all the architectural elegance of the age, but the arts of sculpture and of decoration had so de- clined that Constantine was forced to rob the cities of Greece of their finest works in order to supply the deficiencies of his own art- ists : Athens and Asia were despoiled to adorn his semi-barbarous capital. The city was provided with a forum, in which was placed a column of porphyry upon a white marble base, in all one hundred and twentv feet high, upon which stood a bronze figure of Apollo. A hippodrome, or circus of great size, and the baths and pleasure- A.D. 284-337. DIOCLETIAN TO CONSTANTINE. 333 ms , .-jrr 5 * / jT~ '"""' / <~? / . ^J /\ C^Y \ Troja, 1_\ Map of Propontis, Hellespont, grounds, recalled the memory of those of Rome. Schools and the- atres, aqueducts, fourteen churches, fourteen palaces, and a great number of magnificent private houses, added to the splendor of the new city. Constantino designed, it is said, to have called his cap- ital the SECOND OR NEW HOME, but his own name has always been preferred. Map of Constantinople. Having thus provided a capital, Constantino next began co form * new constitution for his empire ; he established, therefore, a com- 334 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XLIII. plcte despotism, all the power being lodged in the emperor, and all honors and titles being conferred by him alone. The name of Con- sul was still preserved, these officers being yearly appointed by the emperor; but we now notice the titles of Count and .Duke joined with those of Qucestors and Proconsuls. All the civil magistrates were taken from the legal profession. The law was now the most honorable of the professions, and the law school at Berytus, in Phoe- nicia, had flourished since the reign of Alexander Severus. The Roman Empire was divided into four great prefectures, which were themselves subdivided into dioceses and provinces. The prefectures were named that of the East, of Illyricum, of Italy, and of Gaul. A Praetorian Prefect had charge of each prasfecture, and regulated its civil government ; took care of the roads, ports, granaries, manufactures, coinage ; was the supreme legal magis- trate, from whose decision there was no appeal. Rome and Con- stantinople had their own Prefects, whose courts took the place of those of the ancient Prrctors, while a considerable police furce pre- served the quiet of each city. The magistrates of the empire were divided into three classes, the Illustrissimi, or illustrious; the Spcc- tabiles, or respectable ; and the Clarissimi, or the honorable. Constantine also made Christianity the established religion of the state, and appropriated a large portion of the revenues of the cities to the support of the churches and the clergy. His standing army was very large, but the ranks were now filled chiefly by bar- barians, the Roman youth having lost all taste for arms. It is said the young men of Italy were in the habit of cutting off the fingers of the right hand in order to unfit themselves for military service. In order to support this extensive system, Constantine was forced to impose heavy taxes \\\ on his people. Every year the emperor subscribed with his own hand, in purple ink, the indiction, or tax levy of each diocese, which was set up in its principal city, and when this proved insufficient, an additional tax, or si/perindiction, was imposed. Lands, cattle, and slaves were all heavily taxed, and the declining agriculture of the empire was finally ruined by the exorbitant demands of the state. In Campania alone, once the most fertile part of Italy, one eighth of the whole province lay un- cultivated, and the condition of Gaul seems to have been no better. Besides this, merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, and citizens were taxed beyond their power of endurance, while those who fail- ed to pay were shut up in prison. Every fourth year these taxes on industry were levied, a period to which the people looked for- ward with terror and lamentation. Gifts were also demanded from the cities or provinces on various occasions, such as the accession of an emueror, the birth of an emperor's heir, the free gift of the A.D. 281-337. DIO&OlTlAN Ttf CONSTANTINE. 335 city of Rome, for example, being fixed at about three hundred thou- sand dollars ; and, in fine, the imperial despotism reduced the peo- ple to want, and hastened, even more than the inroads of the bar- barians, the destruction of civil society. Constantino in his old age adopted the luxury and pomp which Diocletian introduced from the East ; he wore false hair of various colors carefully arranged, a diadem of costly gems, and a robe of silk embroidered with flowers of gold. His family, at an earlier period, consisted of Crispus, a son by his first wife Minervina, and the three sons of Fausta, Constantino, Constantius, and Constans. Besides these there were three daughters. Crispus, however, who was beloved by the people and the army, excited tke jealousy of Fausta. Constantino was led to believe that his son was engaged in a conspiracy against his life, and Crispus was executed by his father's orders, together with Csesar Licinius, the son of Constan- tino's favorite sister. Helena, the aged mother of Constantino, un- dertook to avenge her grandson. Fausta was finally proved to be unfaithful to her husband, and put to death, with many of her friends and followers. These fearful scenes within the palace recalled to the Roman people the memory of Nero and Caligula. Tha three sons of Fausta were now the heirs of the throne, and, with their two cousins, Dalmatius and Hannibalianus, were careful- ly instructed by Christian professors, Greek philosophers, and Ro- man jurisconsults, the emperor himself teaching them the science of government and of man. They also studied the art of war in defending the frontiers of the empire ; but no important war dis- turbed the last fourteen years of this reign. Constantine reigned thirty years, the longest period of any since Augustus; and he died May 22, A.D. 337, at his palace at Nicomedia, aged sixty -four years. Constantine, although professing the Christain faith, was not bap- tized until a short time before his death, when he received that sol- emn rite with many professions of penitence, and of a desire to live in future according to the precepts of religion. He seems to have possessed many excellent qualities, was brave, active, and untiring, ruled with firmness, and gave a large portion of his time to the cares of state. ~ I I Julian the Apostate. CHAPTER XLIV. FROM THE DEATH OF CONSTANT1NE, A. I). 337, TO ROMULUS AU- GUSTULUS, A.D. 476. THE three sons of the late emperor, Constantino, Constantius, and Constans, as soon as their father was dead, put to death theit two cousins, Hannibalianus and Dalmatius, with many more of their relatives; only Gallus and Julian, the children of Julius Con^ stantius, being left alive. They then divided the empire, A.D. 337, Constantino, the elder, retaining the new capita], Constans receiv- ing the western provinces, while to Constantius was left Syria and the East. Sapor, king of 1'crsia, invaded the Eastern provinces, and defeated the Romans in various battles. Meanwhile a quar- rel broke out between Constantino and Constans, and the former, having invaded his brother's provinces, was defeated and slain, A.D. 350. Ten years afterward Constans was himself put to death by Magnentius, an ambitious soldier, who at once assumed the name of emperor. Constantius marched against him, but found that Vetranio, prasfect of Illyricum, had joined him, instigated by the Princess Constantina. He finally, however, defeated Magnen- A.D. 337-47G. CONST ANTINE TO R. AUGUSTULUS. 337 tins, and deposed the aged Vetranio, and thus became the master of Home. Having recalled Callus and Julian from banishment, the emperor gave them the title of Caesars. Gallus proved unfit for I'uMie affairs, while Julian won the esteem of all men by his conduct and valor. He drove the Germans out of Gaul, which they had invaded, and even crossed the Rhine, in imitation of Ju- lius Caesar. Constantius now became jealous of the rising fame of Julian, who was beloved by the Western legions, and commanded him to send the finest part of his army to the East. Julian prepared to obey, but the soldiers rose in revolt, proclaiming him Julian Au- gustus. He sent messengers to the emperor demanding the rec- ognition of his election ; but war could not long be averted. Ju- lian abjured Christianity, which he had hitherto professed, together with his allegiance to the emperor, and led a small army of well- chosen soldiers against his rival. Meantime Constantius, in A.D. 3G1, November 3d, died of a fever in Syria, while Julian entered Constantinople December llth, amid the applause of the people. He was acknowledged emperor. He was now in his thirty-second year, in many particulars the most remarkable of the second Fla- vian family. Julian had been educated by the Platonic philosophers, and re- solved to restore the ancient form of religion. He sacrificed to the pagan gods, rebuilt their temples, revived the practice of augury, or divination, and vainly strove to impose upon the human mind a superstition which it had just thrown off. In order to mortify the Christians, he resolved to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem, and restore the Jews to their ancient seat. But some natural phenom- enon interposed ; the workmen were driven away by balls of fire, and Julian abandoned his design. Except this unphilosophical hostility toward the Christians, whose faith he had once professed, Julian seems to have made a sincere attempt to improve the condition of his people. He lived with frugality, rewarded merit, and encouraged learning, except where it was employed in the defense of Christianity. He was also successful in his wars against the Germans and the Persians, but at length was defeated by the latter, and was killed A.D. 303, June 2Gth. Julian affected in his dress and manners the rudeness and indif- ference of a philosopher, was free from vice, possessed considerable learning, and wrote a work of some value, in which he compared and studied the characters of the long line of his predecessors. Jovian was now proclaimed emperor by the Eastern army, and concluded a dishonorable peace with the Persians. He next pub- Y 338 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XLIV. lished an edict restoring Christianity, but was found dead in his bed, A.D. 3G1. Valentinian was next chosen emperor, who gave the Eastern provinces to his brother Valens. He made Milan the seat of his own government, while Valens reigned at Constantinople ; and the empire was from this time divided into the Eastern and the Western. The whole of the Western world was distressed by the invasion of barbarous tribes, and Valentinian now made his son Gratian his heir, in order to remove all doubt as to the succession. The Saxon pirates, meantime, harassed all the coasts of Gaul, while Britain was invaded by the Picts and Scots. Theodosius, however, defeated them, and was soon after sent to quell an insur- rection in Africa. This he succeeded in doing, when Valentinian died suddenly, A.D. 375. Valens, his brother, meantime had suppressed a rebellion in the East, led by Procopius; and then, having become an Avian, com- menced a severe persecution of the orthodox, of whom no fewer than eighty ecclesiastics were put to death for supporting the elec- tion of a bishop of their own faith at Constantinople. Valens also succeeded in repelling the attacks of the Persians. In the West Valentinian had been succeeded by his sons Gratian and Valentinian II. The brave Theodosius, meanwhile, whose valor had preserved the peace of the nation, was executed bv order of Gratian, and soon after the Huns appeared upon the Danube. These savages are thought to have entered Europe from Tartary. Their faces were artificially flattened and their beards plucked out. They left the cultivation of their fields to the women or slaves, and devoted their lives to warfare. A wandering race, they built no cities nor houses, and never slept beneath a roof. They lived upon horseback. The Huns first attacked their fellow-barbarians, the Ostrogoths, and made a fearful carnage, putting all the women and children to death. The Gothic nation now begged permission from the Romans to cross the Danube, and settle within the Roman territory. Their request was granted, upon condition that they should surrender all their arms ; but this condition was imperfectly fulfilled. The ceL ebrated Bishop Ulphilas about this time converted the Goths to Arianism, invented a Gothic alphabet, and infused among the Goths a hatred for the Catholic faith, which served to increase their zeal in all their future conflicts with the Romans. Ill-treated by the Roman commissioners who had been sent by the Emperor Valens to superintend their settlement, the Goths marched against Con- stantinople. Valens wrote to Gratian for aid, and the latter, al- though his own dominions were harassed by the Germans, marched A.D. 337-476. CONSTANTINE TO R. AUGUSTULUS. 339 to the aid of his uncle, hut died at Sirmium. Valens encountered Fritigern, the Gothic leader, near Adrianople, in A.D. 378, and was defeated and slain. Nearly the whole of the Roman army was destroyed upon this fatal field. Gratian now chose as his colleague Theodosius, the son of the former brave commander of that name, and Theodosius for a time restored the Roman empire. He defeated the Goths, won their af- fections by his clemency, and induced them to protect the frontiers of the Danube. Gratian was defeated and put to death, A.D. 383, by a usurper, Maximus, who also deprived Valentinian II. of his province of Italy. Theodosius, however, defeated the usurper in A.D. 388, and generously restored Valentinian to his throne. Val- entinian was murdered by a Frank, Arbogastes, in A.D. 392, but Theodosius marched against him, and defeated and destroyed the rebels Arbogastes and Eugenius, A.D. 394. Theodosius the Great, who had thus reunited the empire under his own sway, belonged to the orthodox faith, and sought to sup- press Arianism, as well as many other heresies which had crept into the Christian Church. He was a prudent ruler, and resisted successfully the inroads of the barbarians. He divided his empire between his two sons, Honorius and Arcadius, the former becoming Emperor of the West, the latter, who was the elder, succeeding his father at Constantinople ; and Theodosius soon after died, lament- ed by his subjects. Rufinus, wiio became the chief minister of Ar- cadius, oppressed and plundered the Eastern empire. He was uni- versally hated by the people. Stilicho, on the other hand, who also became the chief minister of Honorius, was a very different character. He was a brave and active commander, and restored the former glory of the Roman arms. His chief opponent was the famous Alaric, who now united the Gothic forces under his own command, and, having penetrated into Greece, ravaged and deso- lated that unhappy country. The barbarians plundered Athens, Corinth, Sparta, and Argos ; and those cities, once so renowned for valor, seemed to offer him no resistance, so fallen was the an- cient spirit of the Greeks. Stilicho, however, pursued -Alaric into Elis, and would, perhaps, have totally destroyed the barbarians had not the feeble Arcadius not only made peace with Alaric, but ap* pointed him to the command of Illyricum. Alaric, not long after, invaded Italy, but was defeated by his rival. In A.D. 403 he again invaded Italy, and was induced to retreat by a considerable bribe. The Emperor Honorius removed from Rome to Ravenna, where he believed himself more secure ; and when a new horde of barba- rians invaded Italy in A.D. 406, and had besieged Florence, they were totally defeated and destroyed by Stilicho. A portion of the 840 HISTORY OF ROME. CiiAp.XLIV. invaders escaped into Gaul, where they committed great ravages, until Constantino, the governor of Britain, was proclaimed emper- or, who wrested Gaul and Spain from the dominion of Honoring. This weak prince, in A.D. 408, consented to the murder of Stilicho. His new minister, Olympius, directed the slaughter of the families of the barbarians throughout Italy, a cruelty which was fearfully avenged. Alaric, the scourge of Rome, marched into Italy, and in A.D. 408 besieged the capital. Pestilence and famine soon raged within the walls of Rome, until the Senate purchased a respite from their ca- lamities by an enormous ransom. Honorius refused to confirm the treaty, and the next year Alaric once more appeared before the city. He took possession of Ostia, the port of Rome, reduced the Senate to surrender, and proclaimed Attains emperor. Honorius still refusing to yield to his demands, Alaric resolved to punish Rome for the vices of its emperor. The sack of that city now followed, one of the most fearful tragedies in history. No foreign enemy had appeared before the gates of Rome since the invasion of Hannibal, until Alaric made his successful inroad into Italy. The city still retained all that magnificence with which it had been invested by the emperors. The Colosseum, the baths, the aqueducts, the palaces of the Senators, the public gardens, and the ancient temples, still remained ; but its people were lost in luxury and vice. Learning was no longer respected among them, the gamester or the cook being more esteemed than philosophers or poets; and the luxurious Senators passed their lives in frivolous and degrading amusements. The indolent people were maintained by a daily distribution of bread, baked in the public ovens ; and oil, wine, and bacon were also provided for them during a part of the year. The public baths were open to the people, and for a small copper coin they might enter those scenes of luxury where the walls were incrusted with precious marble, and perpetual streams of hot water flowed from silver tubes. From the bath they passed to the Circus, where, although the combats of gladia- tors had been suppressed by Christian princes, a succession of amusements was still provided. In this manner the luxurious no- bles and people of Rome passed their tranquil, inglorious lives. The wealth of the capital was such as might well attract the barbarous invader. The palaces of the Senators were filled with gold and silver ornaments, and the churches had been enriched by the contributions of pious worshipers. Many of the nobles pos- sessed estates which produced several hundred thousand dollars a year, and the wealth of the world was gathered within the walls of its capital. A.D. 337-47G. CONSTANT1NE TO B. AUGUSTULUS. 341 We have no means of estimating accurately the population of Rome. Its walls embraced a circuit of twenty-one miles, and it is probable tliat nearly a million of people were contained within the walls and the suburbs. Such was the condition of Home when it was about to fall before the arms of the barbarians. August 24th, A.D. 410, Alaric ap- proached the city, and the gates being opened to him by some Gothic slaves, his troops began at night a fearful scene of pillage and destruction. Men, women, and children were involved in a general massacre ; nobles and plebeians suffered under a common fate. The Goths, as they entered, set fire to the houses in order to light their path, and the flames consumed a large part of the city. Great numbers of the citizens were driven away in hordes to be sold as slaves; others escaped to Africa, or to the islands on the coast of Italy, where the Goths, having no ships, were unable to fol- low them. But Alaric, who was an Arian, spared the churches of Rome, and was anxious to save the city from destruction. From this time, however, A.D. 410, began that rapid decay which soon converted Rome into a heap of ruins. Alaric, after six days given to plunder, marched out of the city to the southern part of Italy, where he died. His body was buried under the waters of a rivulet, which was turned from its course in order to prepare his tomb ; and, the waters being once more led back to their channel, the captives who had performed the labor were put to death, that the Romans might never discover the re- mains of their Gothic scourge. The brother of Alaiic, Adolphus, who succeeded him, was mar- ried to the Princess Tlacidia, and now became the chief ally of Honoring. He restored Gaul to the empire, but was murdered while upon an expedition into Spain. Wallia, the next Gothic king, reduced all Spain and the eastern part of Gaul under the yoke of the Visigoths. The empire of the West was now rapidly dismembered. The Franks and Burgundians took possession of Gaul. Britain, too, was from this time abandoned by the Romans, and was afterward, in A.D. 448, overrun and conquered by the An- gles and the Saxons, and thus the two great races, the English and the French, began. Arcadius, the Eastern emperor, governed by his minister, tho eunuch Eutropius, and by the Empress Eudoxia, was led into many cruelties; and St. Chrysostom, the famous bishop and orator, was one of the illustrious victims of their persecutions. Arcadius died in A.D. 408, and was succeeded by the young Theodosius, who was controlled in all his measures by his sister I'ulcheria, and for forty years Pulcheria ruled the East with uncommon abilitv. Honoring 342 HISTORY OF KOME. CIIAI-. XLIV. died in A.D. 423, when Valentinian III., son of Placidia, his sister, was made Emperor of the West. He was wholly governed bv his mother, and thus Placidia and Pulcheria ruled over the civilized world. The Vandals, who had settled in the province of Andalusia, in Spain, were invited into Africa by Count Boniface, who had been led into this act of treachery by the intrigues of his rival JEtius. Genseric, the Vandal king, conquered Africa, although Boniface, repenting of his conduct, endeavored to recover the province ; and thus Italy Avas now threatened on the south by the Vandal power in Africa. The Huns, meantime, who had been detained upon the upper side of the Danube, now crossed that river, being united under the control of Attila, and became the terror of the civilized world. Attila first threatened an attack upon the Eastern empire, but at length turned his arms against the West. He was defeated by ^Etius and the Visigoths in A.D. 451, but the next year he invaded Italy, demanded the Princess Honoria in marriage, and destroyed many of the Italian cities. He spared the city of Rome, however, and finally died in A.D. 453. His death alone saved the empire from complete ruin, Valentinian III., who had put to death the brave commander JEtius, was murdered by the patrician Maximus in A.D. 455. The Vandals now besieged and plundered Rome, and sold man}' thou- sands of the citizens as slaves. Avitus, a Gaul, next became em- peror by the influence of Theodoric, king of the Visigoths, but was soon deposed by Count Rieimer, and was followed by Mnjoiian, a man of merit, who endeavored to reform the nation. He died in A.D. 461. Count Rieimer then declared Severus emperor, but Avas forced to apply for aid against the Vandals to the court of Con- stantinople, where Leo Avas noAV emperor. Leo appointed Anthe- mius to the throne of the West, and sent an army against the Van- dals in Africa, Avhich Avas totally defeated. Rieimer then deposed Anthemius, and declared Olybrius emperor ; -but both Rieimer and Olybrius died in A.D. 472. Leo next appointed Julius Kepos his colleague. Glycerins, an obscure soldier, made an effort to obtain the throne, but yielded to Xepos, and became Bishop of Salona. Orestes, Avho had succeeded Count Rieimer as commander of the barbarian mercenaries, deprived Nepos of his throne ; and Kepos, having fled into Dalmatia, Avas executed by his eld rival Glvcerius. Orestes gave the throne to his son Romulus, to Avhom he also gave the title of Augustus, Avhich was afterward changed by com- mon consent to Augustulus. But Odoacer, the leader of the Ger- man tribes, put Orestes to death, sent Augustulus into banishment. A.D. 337-470. CONSTANTINE TO R. AUGUSTULUS. 343 \vitli a pension for his support, and, having abolished the title of emperor, in A.D. 47G declared himself King of Italy. Komulus Augustus was the last emperor of the "West, and bore tnc name of the founder of the monarchy as well as of the empire, a singular circumstance. In this manner fell the Roman Empire, a noble fabric, which its founder hoped would endure forever. Its destruction, however, gave rise to the various kingdoms and states of modern Europe, and thus civilization and Christianity, which might have remained confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, have been spread ove2 a large portion of the world. CHAPTER XLV. ROMAN LITERATURE UNDER THE EMPIRE. A.T>. 14-476, ROMAN literature, which had risen to its highest excellence un- ler Augustus, declined rapidly under his successors, and was final-* ly lost with the fall of the Western empire. The language was no longer pure, and neither prose nor poetry retained the harmony and elegance of the Augustan age. A certain sadness and discontent, which marks all the later literature, forms also a striking contrast with the cheerful tone of the earlier writers. Every part of the empire, however, aboifnded with men of letters, and a high degree of mental cultivation seems every where to have prevailed. Epic poetry continued to flourish, and Virgil found many imita- tors. The best epic writer of this period was M. Annanis Lucanus, who was horn at Corduba, in Spain, in the year A.D. 38. Lucan was educated at Rome under the Stoic Cornuius, and was intro- duced by his uncle Seneca to the Emperor Nero. Having for a time enjoyed the patronage of Nero, he at length became the ob- ject of his jealousy and hatred, was accused of having taken part in Piso's conspiracy, and was condemned to death. He was allow- ed, as a favor, to put an end to his own life, and thus died, A.D. Go. Although so young, for he was scarcely twenty-seven years of age, Lucan, besides several shorter poems, produced the Pharsalia, an epic, of which lie finished only ten books : it relates the wars be- tween Caesar and Pompey, and contains many fine thoughts and striking images. He evidently prefers Pompey to Cresar, and pos- sessed a strong love for liberty, which lends vigor to his verses. His language is pure, his rhythm often harmonious, but he never attains the singular delicacy and sweetness of his master, Virgil. C. Silius Italicus, the place of whose, birth is unknown, also lived during the reign of Nero, and was Consul in the year A.D. C8. He \vas a Stoic, and put an end to his own life in the year A.D. ]00, when he was about seventy-five years of age. His poem, the Punic.i, is an account of the second Punic War in verse, and is chiefly val- uable to the historical student. He had little inventive power, and takes but a low rank in poetry. P. Papinius Statins, the son of the teacher of the Emperor Do- mitian, was carefully educated at Rome, and became renowned at an early age for his poetical talents. He spent the last years of his life at Naples, which was also tho place of his birth, and died there A.D. 14-476. ROMAN LITERATURE. 345 in the year A.D. 96. He wrote the Thebais, in twelve parts; the Achillels, in two books ; the Sylva, a collection of poems ; a trag- edy, and other works. He seems to have borrowed much from ear- lier Greek writers, but was possessed of considerable poetical fervor, Claudius Claudianus, who lived under Thcodosius the Great and his two sons, was probably born and educated at Alexandria, but we know little of his history. He came to Rome about A.D. 395, and, under the patronage of Stilicho, rose to a high position in the state. The time and place of his death are unknown. His chief works were, 1. Raptus Proserpina?, an unfinished poem in three parts ; 2. Gigantomachia, another unfinished work ; 3. De Bello Gildonico, of which we possess only the first book ; and, 4. De Bel- lo Getico, in which the poet sings the victory of Stilicho over Alaric at Pollentia. His poems have a rude vigor which sometimes strikes the attention, but are chiefly valued for the light they throw upon the Gothic wars. They are marked by many faults of taste. Lyric poetry was little cultivated at Rome after the death of Horace ; but satire, which was peculiar to the Romans, reached its highest excellence under the empire. Juvenal is still the mas- ter of this kind of writing, although he has been imitated by Boileau, Pope, and Johnson; and his contemporary Persius was also a writer of great power. Aulus Persius Flaccus was born at Volateme, in Etruria, in the year A.D. 34, of a distinguished family of the equestrian rank. He was educated at Rome under the best masters, particularly under the Stoic Cornutus, with whom he lived in close friendship, as well as with Lucan, Seneca, and the most distinguished men of his time. He died at the early age of twenty-eight, leaving behind him six satires and a brief preface. Persius possessed a generous, manly character, was the foe of every kind of vice, and formed one of that graceful band of writers who maintained their independence undei the terrors of a despotic government. Decimus Junius Juvenalis, of whose life we have few particulars, was born at Aquinuin A.D. 38 or 40, and came up to Rome, where he at first studied eloquence with great ardor, but at length gave himself wholly to satirical writing. He offended Domitian by his satires, it is said, and was sent by that emperor to the extreme bound- ary of Egypt, where he died of grief and exile; but scarcely any fact in the history of this great man has been perfectly ascertained. We possess sixteen satires of Juvenal, the last of which, however, .s of doubtful authenticity. These satires are full of noble appeals to the purest emotions of virtue, and of severe rebukes for triumph- ant vice. Juvenal's language is often harsh and his taste impure ; but his ideas are go elevated, his perception of truth, honor, and 346 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XLV. justice so clear, that he seldom fails to win the attention of his readers. Epigrams seem to have been a favorite mode of expressing fhought at the court of Augustus, and almost every eminent Roman from the time of Cicero has left one or more of these brilliant trifles behind him. M. Valerius Martialis, the chief of the epigrammatist?, was born about A.D. 40, at Bibilis, in Spain, from whence he came to Rome, when about twenty, to perfect his education. Here he lived for thirty-five years, engaged in poetical pursuits, and patron- ized by Titus and Domitian. He seems finally to have returned to his native land, where he was living in the year A.D. 100. His poems are about fifteen hundred in number, divided into fourteen books, and are altogether original in their design. They are al- ways witty, often indecent, and contain many personal allusions which can not now be understood. Martial is one of the most gift- ed of the Roman writers. The practice of writing epigrams was preserved until a very late period. Seneca, Pliny the younger, Hadrian, and many others, were fond of composing them ; and in modern times the epigram has been a favorite kind of poetry with most good writers. Phacdrus, who lived under Augustus and Tiberius, wrote pleas- ing fables. Calphurnius and Ausonius imitated Virgil's bucolics, and fragments of many other poets arc preserved, whom we can not mention here. Historical writers also abounded under the empire. Velleius Paterculus, an excellent historian descended from a patrician fam- ily, was born about B.C. 19. He was the friend and flatterer of Ti- berius, and rose, in consequence, to several high offices. He was Quaestor in perhaps A.D. 7, and Praetor in A.D. 15. His IJistoricce Romance, two books of which remain, is an abridgment of the his- tory of the world, written in a clear and pleasing style, and is, in general, trustworthy. He flatters his benefactors, Augustus and Tiberius, but his fine tribute to the memory of Cicero shows that ho felt a strong sympathy with that chief of the Republicans. Valerius Maximus, who also lived under Tiberius, wrote a con- siderable work, composed of remarkable examples of virtue, and other anecdotes, collected from Roman or foreign history. He had plainly a just conception of moral purity, although he dedicates his book to Tiberius. His style is inflated and tasteless, but the work is not without interest. Next after Valerius arose Tacitus, the chief of the imperial prose writers. Tacitus, a plebeian by birth, was born at Interamna. The year of his birth is not known, but must have lain between A.D. 47 and A D. 61. Tacitus served in the army un'der Vespasian and A.D. 14-476. ROMAN LITERATURE. 347 Titus. He rose to many honors in the state, but in A.D. 89 loft Rome, together with his wife, the daughter of the excellent Agric- ola. He returned thither in A.D. 97, and was made Consul by the Emperor Nerva. His death took place, no doubt, after A.D. 117. So few are the particulars that remain of the life of this eminent man ; but the disposition and sentiments of Tacitus may be plainly discovered in his Avritings. He Avas honest, candid, a sincere loA-er of virtue. He lamented incessantly the fall of the old republic, and does not spare Augustus or Tiberius, Avhoin he believed to be its destroyers. Like Juvenal, whom he resembled in the severity of his censure as Avell as the greatness of his powers, Tacitus Avrote in a sad, desponding temper of mind, as if he foresaw the swift de- cline of his country. His style is Avholly his own concise, obscure, strong, forever arousing the attention. He could ncA^er have attained the easy elegance of LiA'y, and he neA'er tells a story Avith the grace of that uncqualed narrator, but he has more vigor in his descriptions, more reality in his characters. The life of his father-in-law Agricola is one of the most delight- ful of biographies. His account of the Germans was a silent satire upon the corrupt condition of the Roman state. The Historiaruin Lifjri is a history of his own age, from the fall of Galba to the death of Domitian, and was probably designed to embrace the reigns of Nerva and Trajan. A small portion only of this work is preserved. The Annaks relate the history of Rome from the death of Augus- tus to that of Nero, but are also imperfect. A treatise upon the orators is also attributed to the historian. Tacitus and JuA'enul are the last great names in Roman literature. Quintus Curtius Rufi:s, an interesting Avriter, who lived perhaps under Claudius or Tiberius, -his true period being uncertain, Avrote, in ten books, an account of the exploits of Alexander the Great. He Avas succeeded by C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Avho came to Romo during the reign of Domitian, and there studied rhetoric and gram- mar. Under Hadrian he fell into disgrace and Avent into exile : the period of his death is unknoAvn. Suetonius Avrote the lives of the twelve Ctcsars, ending with Domitian. His language is good, and he paints Avith uncommon minuteness the vices as well as the vir- tues of his subjects ; he abounds, too, in particulars Avhich throw light upon the manners of the Romans. Suetonius also Avrote SCA-- eral short treatises. Avhile various biographies have been attributed to him which probably belong to inferior Avriters- L. Anurous Floru?, Avho perhaps lived under Trajan, wrote an epitome of Roman history. Justin, Avhose period is unknown, wrote or abridged from an earlier author, Trogus, a history of the 848 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XLV. world. The Scriptorcs Historic, Avffvstaz is a collection of writers of little merit, who flourished in different periods of the empire. Aurelius Victor, who was probably Prefect of Home under Theo- dosius, wrote Origo G'entis Romaruv, only a small portion of which has been preserved, and several other historical works. Eutropius, who served under Julian against the Persians, composed a brief history of Rome, written in a pure and natural style. Ammianus Marcellinus, who lived tinder Valens, Valentinian, 3nd Theodosius until A.D. 410, and was a Greek bv birth, wrote a history of the empire from Nerva to the death of Valens, A.D. o78. A large part of this work is lost. Ammianus abounds in digres- sions and descriptions, and is, on that account, the more entertain- ing. His manner can not be praised. The Spaniard O rosins concludes the list of the Latin historians. Orosius was a Christian presbyter, and, while defending Christian- ity, paints a lamentable picture of the condition of the pagan world. He borrowed from Justin and other writers, and lived in the fifth century. Rhetoric continued to be cultivated, but eloquence no longer pos- sessed the power which it held under the Republic. The speeches now delivered Avere chiefly declamations xipon unimportant themes. M. Annaeus Seneca, the father of the philosopher, came to Rome from his native city Corduba, in Spain, during the reign of Augus- tus, and became a famous rhetorician. M. Fabius Quintilianus, a greater name in literature, was born A.D. 42, at Calgurris, in Spain, but, as was customary with men of merit at that period, went up to Rome, and became celebrated as a teacher of rhetoric. He was a person of excellent character, and, besides practicing at the bar, rose to the consulship. Having passed many years in politics or the law, Quintilian at last returned to his old profession, and in the close of his life gave himself wholly to letters. He now wrote his work upon oratory, JAbri duodecim Institutions Oratorio*. In this valuable work he seeks to restore the purity of the language, incul- cates simplicity, and shows an excellent taste. The younger Pliny was also a famous orator or declaimer. The Romance, or modern novel, is also thought to have begun in the first century with the satirical talc ascribed to Pctronius Arbi- ter, or perhaps with the translation of the Milesian tales of Aris- tides from the Greek by Sisenna. The Petronii Arbitri Satiricon is a romance in prose and verse, and was probably written in the first century by an author of whom nothing is known. It relates the adventures of a certain Encolojrius, and satirizes the vices and follies of the age. The language of this work is pure, the wit live- ly, but indecent : only a portion, however, of the Satiricon has been A.D. U-47G. ROMAN LITERATURE. 349 preserved. During the age of the Antonines arose Appuleius, the best known of the ancient writers of tales. He was born at Ma- daura, in Africa, but went to Carthage, and from thence to Athens, where lie was initiated into the Grecian mysteries, and studied the Platonic philosophy. Appuleitis Avas an agreeable speaker, and had filled his mind with the learning of his age ; but his fame with posterity rests upon his novel ^[ctamor])hoseon, in which he strives to correct the vices of his contemporaries. In this work a vicious young man is transformed into an ass, under which form he goes through many amusing adventures, but is at last changed to a new man through the influence of the mysteries. The story is full of episodes, the moral good, but the language shows the decline of literary taste. Philosophy, since the time of Cicero, had become a favorite study with the Romans, although they produced no remarkable philoso- pher. Seneca, the most eminent of them, was the son of M. An- naaus Seneca, the rhetorician. He was probably born at Corduba, in Spain, soon after the Christian era, and was educated by the best masters at Rome. He possessed an active intellect, was early re- nowned, and held various high offices in the state. Having been the preceptor of Nero, he was finally condemned to death by that monster, and put an end to his life A.I>. G5. Seneca was a Stoic, and taught self-control, tranquillity of mind, and contempt for the changes of fortune. His various essays and other writings have al- ways been admired, although he wanted a correct taste, and is often affected and rhetorical. He possessed great wealth, which he either inherited or accumulated. His town house .was adorned with mar- bles and citron-wood, and his country villas, of which he had sev- eral, were filled with costly luxuries ; yet his morals were probably pure, and he was much beloved for his generosity and fidelity to his many friends. The elder Pliny, Plinius Secundus Major, another famous philoso- pher, was born in the year A.D. 23, either at Como or Verona. He served with the army in Germany, and rose high in office under Vespasian. Being in command of the fleet at Misenum during the first eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, in order to gratify his curios- ity he remained too long near the burning mountain, and was suf- focated by its exhalations. Pliny passed his whole life in studv, and was never satisfied unless engaged in acquiring knowledge. His Jllstoria Naturalis resembles the Cosmos of Humboldt, and passes in review over the whole circle of human knowledge. It treats of the heavens, of the earth and its inhabitants, of the various races of man, of animals, trees, flowers, minerals, the contents of the sea and land, of the arts and sciences ; and shows that the au- 350 HISTORY OF ROME. CHAP. XLY. thor possessed an intellect of almost unequaled activity. His nephew, the younger Pliny, who lived under Trajan, and was the favorite correspondent of that emperor, is remembered for his agree- able letters, and the purity and dignity of his character. Grammatical studies and critical writings also afforded employ- ment for many intelligent Romans; and every part of the empire seems to have been filled with cultivated men, who, possessing wealth and leisure, gave themselves to literary studies. Aulus Gellius, one of the best known of the grammarians, lived during the period of the Antonines. His Noctes Atticcc is a critical work in twenty hooks, in which he discusses many questions in language, philoso- phy, and science. He seems to have passed his life in traveling over Italy and Greece, collecting materials for this work, and, wherever he goes he never fails to meet with agreeable, intelligent friends, who delight, like himself, in improving conversation. Aurelius Macrobius, another well-known grammarian, lived dur- ing the fifth century. His Commentary on the Dream of Scipio is full of the scientific speculations of his age. His Saturnalia con- tains many extracts from the best Roman writers, with criticisms upon them, in which he detects the plagiarisms of Virgil, and ob- serves the faults as well as the beauties of the orators and poets of Rome. The works of other grammarians have been preserved or are partly known to us, among which are those of Servius, Festus, Priscianus, and Isidorus. The study of the law, too, flourished in uncommon excellence un- der the empei-ors, and nearly two thousand legal works were con- densed in the Digests of Justinian, few of which belonged to the Republican period. Under Augustus and Tiberius, Q. Antislius Labeo founded the famous school of the Proculians. He left four hundred volumes upon legal subjects. His rival, C. Ateius Capito, founded the school of the Sabinians, and was also a profuse writer- tinder Hadrian, Salvius Julianus prepared the Edictwn Pcr/>etuunt, about the year A.D. U>2, which condensed all the edicts of former magistrates into a convenient code. Papinianus, Ulpianus, and Paulus were also celebrated for their legal writings. The only complete legal work, however, which we possess from this period, is a Commentary by Gains, who lived probably under Hadrian. This valuable treatise was discovered in the year 1816 by the his- torian Mebuhr, in the library of Verona. It contains a clear ac- count of the principles of the Roman law, and the Institutes of Jus- tinian are little more than a transcript of those of Gaius. Various medical writers also belong to the Imperial period, the most important of whom is A. Cornelius Celsus. Works on agri- culture were also written by Columella, Palladius, and others, which A.D. 14-476. ROMAN LITERATURE. 35 1 serve to show the decline of that pursuit among the Romans. Ge- ography, mathematics, and architecture were also cultivated: but of most of these scientific authors only the name is preserved. INDEX, ACCEN9L A. .4 ceensi, 123. Accius L., 275. Ache:in League, 10T ; in alliance witn Philip V., 108. Achtean War, 133. Adolphus, brother of Ala- ilc, 341. j^lius Saturninua, 237. ^EHiiB Sejnnus, 21)7 ; his death, -J9.. yF.miliann?, 324. yEmilius Lepidu?, M., mili- tary road made by, 114. xEmilius Paullus, L., ends the war in Illyria, 79 : slain in the battle of Cannae, 83. ^milius Pauling I- (son), defeats Perseus, 135. yl-'neas, legend of, 8. yRiiui.ins, rs. jEtolian League, 107; form- alliance with Home, 10S ; but is obliged to mike peace with Philip V, 103; chief town A mbr.i- cia taken by the Romans, 111 ; compelled to sue for peace, and the League crushed, 111. Afranius, L., Consul, 224. Afranius, L. (port), 'J74. Africa, invuled by the Ro- mans, 7J; under Augus- tus 287. Agrarian Law of Sp. Cas- sia.-, -11 ; law introduce'! . by Ti. Gracchus, l.vi 151 ; extended by C Gracchus, 157 ; law in trod need by ( 'resar, 225. Agricnla, Julius, legate to Britain, 30:; ; his forced retirement, 305. Agrigentum besieged and taken, 70. Agrippa, M., Octavian's ANTIOCHUS. ANTONY. general, drives L. Anto- nibal as a fugitive, 110 ; niiiH and Fulvia out of is persuaded to invade Home, 263; defeats them Grace, 110; is defeated at Perusia, 263 ; con- Btructs the Julius Port us, at Thermopylae, and re- turns to Syria, 111 ; in- 265; defeats fleet of ex- vades the kingdom of tus Porapey, 266. Pergamus, but is defeat- Agrippa, M. Vipsanius, ed near Magnesia, 111 ; 2S6. is compelled to cede nil Agrippa, Postumua, 293 ; his dominions in Asia assassination of, 295. Agrippina, 298 ; put to Minor, to pay fines, and surrender Hannibal, 111 ; death by Tiberius, 299. Alaric ravages Greece, peace concluded, an 1 af- fairs of Aski settled, 112. i,30 ; b 'sieges Home, Autiuchus Aiiaticua de- 340; sacks tho city, 341. posed, 212. Alba Longa, foundation of, Antepilani, 122. 8; destruction of, 14. Antoninus, M. Aurelius, Albaii Lake, legend of the, Kmpcror, 3 14; death of, 43. 316. \lesia surrenders to Ce- Antoninus, M. Commodus, sar, 234. Emperor, 316. Alexander Severus, Em- Antoninus Pius, Emperor, peror, 3.2. 1 313. Alexandria, 2SS; trade be- Antonius, C., 219, 220, 221. t-A-e.-n, and the Indies?. Antonius, M. (orator), a.-- 283. sassinated, 185. Allfinanni threaten Rome. Antony (Marcus Antonius), 524 ; defeated by Aure- Consul with Cawar, -'49 ; Han, 325. offers the diadem to Cse- Allobroges, embaseadora of sar, 249 ; takes posses- the, 2-20. sion of (Jficsar's papers Alp.", Hannibal' a passage and treasures, 252 ; pr- . of, note on, 90. nounces the funeral ora- 4mMfea,198. tion over tli3 body of Ancus Marcius, succeeds Csc^ar, ?53; master of Tullus llostilius, 14 ; P.ome, 253; attacked by comjucrs several Latin Cicero in his Philippics, cities, and removes in- 254; retires to Cisalpine habitants to Rome, 14; Gaul, ar-'l besieges Mu- institutes tho Fet lairs. tina, 254 ; declared a 35; founds a colony at public enemy, 254 ; de- Oat iti, 15; fortifisd the feats Tansa, *J55 ; is de- Janiculum, 15 ; con- feated by Hirtius 255; structs the Pons Snbli- received in Farther Gaul ciu j , 15; his reign and by Lepidns, 255; forma ('.rath, 15. Triumvirate with < )ct.a- Andriscus, 137. vian and Lepidus, v.%; Antiochus, king of Syria, defeats Cassius at Phi- proposes to Philip V. to lippi, 261; licentious con- partition Egypt between duct in Asia Minor, and them, 10S; receives Han- meeting with Cleopatra, z 354 INDEX. APOLLOMA. BRUTUS. CJESAR. 2G2, 20 j ; follows her to Aristobulus purrenders to Athens, and collects an Alexandria, 263 ; Ful- Pompey, 212, 213. army, 257, 253 ; plun- via, his wife, and L. An- Armenia, Pompey in, 212. ders Lycia, 25S; crosses tonius, his brother, rise! ArminiuB, 291. over into Thrace, 253 ; against him, 263 ; his Army, Komau, constitu- defeated by Octavian at troops defeated in Syria, tion of, 122. Philippi, 261 ; slays him- 2C4; meets his wife and Artaxata, submission of self, 261. brother at Athens, 2<>4; Mithridates at, 212. his wife dies, 264 ; forms As (weight), 19. an allianc-3 with Sextus Ascauius, legend of, 8. C. Pompey, 264 ; marries Asculum, revolt at, 178. CrociliuH, Q , 274. Octavia, sister of Octa- Astures conquered by Au- tassar Augusta (S.iragos- vian, '264 ; returns to the gustus, 291. sa) founded by Augus- East with Octavia, 265 ; Atellance Fabulce, 2T5. tus, L91. his success in Syria, 265 ; makes another treaty Athenio, leader of slaves in Ca^ar, Augustus, liis con- Sieily, 172 ; defeated and duct of the empire, 286 ; with Octavian, 266 ; re- slain by Catulus, 172. j extent of his empire, news his union with Cle- Athens, 107 ; declares '. Si ; his government, opatra, 267 ; is defeated against Koine, 188. 2SJ ; decree against celi- in Parthia, '267; returns Attalus Philometor, 147. bacy, 289; his protection, to Alexandria, 267 ; is Attila invades Italy, 342. the Praetorian Guard, defeated by Octavian in Augurs, IS, 57. 290 ; army, navy, and the battle of Actium, Augusta Emerita (Merida) revenues, 290 ; pluts '-'68, 269 ; is again de- founded by Augustus, against his life, 290; hid feated at Alexandria, 91. military enterprises, 21)1; 263 ; stabs himself, 269. Aureliin, Emperor, 3'25. domestic misfortunes, Apollonia, besieged bv Ausonius, 346. 291-2D3; his death, 2D3; rhilip V. of Maeedon, Autronius Paetus, P., 218. personal appearance, 107. Avidius Cassiu.s defeats 294. Appellatio, 121. the Parthians, 315. Caesar, Caius Caligula,293; Appius Claudius, 33, 40. succeeds Tiberius, 299 ; Appius Claudius Caucus, death of, 300. 66 ; his son, 63. C.iesar, Cains Julius, early Appuleius, 349. Babylon captured by Tra- life, 214, 215; Quaestor, Apulia, 4. jan, 30S. 215 ; JEdile, 216 ; re- Aqtue Sextse, battle at, Balearic Slingers, 124. stores Ftatues and tro. 171. Barcochab, 312. phies of Marine, 216 ; Aquillius, M'., Consul, sup- Belgic War. S80. I'roprastor in Spain, 224; presses the Second Ser- BibultisM.,216,225. his conquests there, 224 ; vile War in Sicily, 172 ; Boadicea, ::()2. Consul, 225; forms cabal is defeated, and made prisoner by Mithridates, Boii finally conquered and slaughtered, 114. with Poinpoy and Cras- RIS (1st Triumvirate), 183. Bononia (Bologna), colony 225 ; carries Agrarian Arabia Felix invaded by at, 114. Law, 225; supports Pom- Trajan, 308. Bosporus, Cimmerian, 211. pey, and gives him his Arabia Petnea made L Brennus, 45, 46, 47. only daughter Julia ia Itoman province, 308. Brigantium taken by Cae- marriage, 225 ; divorces Arcadius, son of Theodo- t--ur, 224. his wife, 226 ; obtains sius, 339 ; his cruelties, P.ruttii, 4. command in Gaul, 226 ; 341. Britain, first invasion by 1st campaign in Gaul, Archelaus defeated at Chas- Caisar, 231 ; Fecond in- 229 ; 2d, 230 ; 3,1, 230 ; ronea, 1SS ; and again at vasion, 232. 4th, 231; Bth, 232; Cth, Orchomcnos, 1S9. Brutus, ])., put to death at 232; 7th, 233; 8th, 234; Archimedes, 93, 94. Aquileia, 25i>. rivalry of Pompey, i37- Ariobarzancs expelledfrom Brutus, L. Junius, 23-25 ; 8-9 ; returns to Italy, Cappadocia, 187 ; re- his death, 26. 2 JO; quarters at Uavcn- stored, 188 ; again ex- Brutus, M. Junius, Pi re tor, n.i, 240; ordered to dis- pelled, 188 ; restored to conspires with (,'as.-ius band his army, 240; re- his kingdom, 213. and others to assassinate fuses, and crosses the Ariovistus defeat3d by Cae- ar, 230. ( 83 ar, ?49 ; retires to Mn<'edoi!i:i, '253; KIM;.-! to Rubicon, 241 ; enters Komc, 242; conquers hid INDEX. CAESAR, opponents in Spain, 242 ; ehort Dictatorship, 243 ; crosses to Greece to en- counter Pompey, 243-4; total defeat of Pompey in the battle of Pharsa"- lia, '-'45 ; Dictator, 24(5 : pursues Pompey into Kgypt, 240 ; supports Cleopatra, 240 ; conquers Pharnaces in Syria, '240; CELSUS. Caractaciis, 301. Carbo, Cn. Papirius, Con- sul, joins Cinnse, 190. Carinus, 320. Carthage, OS ; capture and destruction of, 142 ; re- built by the Romans, 142 ; capital of the Van- dal kingdom, 142 ; final- ly destroyed by the Arabs, 142. returns to dffi-iit.) Porapeian army! 70; defeated by the Ro- in Africa, '247 ; death of | man navy, 71, 72. Cato at Utica, 247; mas- j Cams, Emperor, 320. ttr of the Rom:m world, Catilina, L. Sergiu?, early life, 218; crimes, 218; jind Lie!** tor for ten years, -47: his. Triumph, 247 ; his clemency and reform?, 247-S-9 ; Impe- rator and Dictator for life, 24'J; appoints Octa- viiu his hei-, 2 ;9 ; con- epiracy against him, '24J- DO ; assassination, 250 ; character, 250-1 ; his character a.i a writer, 283, C'esar, L. Julius, Consul, 17:); in Social War, 17:) ; proposes Lex Julia, 179. ' nwirdered Ly his arni}-i 1UO. 'inna, grandson of Pom- C'aracall.i, Kmperor, 321;! 5^58. Celsua, A. Cornelius, 35 ). l-'ather < 'ircus Mnxiinus, 17. Cisalpine Gaul, a Roman province, 114. '/T.S /tonkin!', 66. (Jlaudianus, Claudius, T45. 350 INDEX. CLAUDIUS. DECEMVIRATE. Clan'ius, M.AureliiiB, Em- na, married to Croaar, peivr. 15-25. '214 ; her death, 215. Cleopatra, Quo>n of Egypt, Cornel;* Leges, 186. meets M. Antony at Tar- Cornelii, slaves go called, su.=>, 262-3; attracts him! 105. to Alexandria, 263 ; is de-! Cornelius Pronto, 314 serted for Octavia, 205; Corsica and Sardinia form- again attracts Antony, ed into a Roman prov- who returns with her to ince, 77. Alexandria, 267; war Corsica, revolt in, 115. declared against her by Cotta, C. Aurelius, lawyer, the Senate, 26S ; defeat- 216. ed with Antony at Acti- Cotta, L. Aurelius, 218. nm, 2(58; deceives An- Cotta, M. Aureiius, de- tony, but fails to deceive feated by Mithridates, Octavian, 269 ; kills her- 206. self, 269. Craseuu, P. Ltciniu vH7. Clients, 12. Crassus, M. Liciniu.-', 1'rse- Clodius Albinus, 319. tor, appointed to com- Clodius Pulcher, P., profli- mand the armv against gate conduct of, 226 ; the Gladiators, 202 ; de- tribune, 227 ; procures feats and slays Sparta- the banishment of Cic- cm, 2,)3 ; Consul with ero, 227 ; killed by Milo, Pompey, 203 ; forms 1st 838. Triumvirate with Cae-ar Clusium besieged, 45. and Pompey, 225 ; meets Cocceius Nerva, 298, 299 ; Caesar and Pompey at emperor, 3()6. Luca, 236; second Con- Cohorts, 123. sulship with Pompey, Collatia, Collatinus, 16. 236 : his command in Colonies, Roman, 43. Syria, 236 ; crosses the Colosseum, the, 303. Columbia, 350. Euphrates, 237; defeat- ed and killeil, 237. Comitia Centuriata, 20, Cremona besieged, 113. 120. Cretan Archers (S.tyitto- Comitia, Curiata, 12, 20, 7f/), 14. 120. Ctesipiion captured by Comitia Tributa, 18, 20, Trajan, 308. 121. Cur'se, 12. Constantino proclaimed Cnriatn,18. Augustus, 330 ; emper- Curius, M'., defeats Pyr- or, 331 ; removes the rhus, 85. capital to Constantino- Curtlu.- 2 , M., legend of, 53. ple, 332 ; his character, Cu ulf-H May/siratiii*, 117. 335. Coustantius, 323 ; empe- ror, 329. . Consuls, duties of, 118. Daria made n Tinman Corfinium, new republic province,, i!d^. at, 178. Dacians cross the Danube, Corinth captured, and 305. burnt, 138. Decebalus, 3f5; demands Coriolanus, C. Marcius,32 ; tribute, 307; his defeat, banished from Rome,32 ; 308. invades Rome at the Decemvirnte, 36 ; Decem- head of a Volscian army, viri appointed, 37; their 32 ; spares the city, 33 ; tyranny, 37 ; the Twelve his death, 33. Tables, 38 ; Decemviri Cornelia, mother of the continue in office, T8 ; Gracchi, 149, 160. they assassinate Liciniu* Cornelia, daughter of Cin- Dentatus, 38 ; Virginia ETRUSCANS. slain by her father to save her from the De- cemvir Appius Claudius, 31) ; resignation of the Decemvirs, 39 ; and elec tion of 10 Tribunes, 40. Decius MUB, P., self-sacri- fice, 5.") ; and of his eon, 51). Decuriones, 123. Ueiotarus, tetrarch of Ga. latia, 213. Dclatores, 20 T, 303. Demetrius of Pharos, 79. Dictator, 28 (note), 51. Dictatorship, 118; revived by Sulla, 194. Didius Julianus, Emperor, 319. Diocletian, Emperor, 327 ; selects Maximian for hi.-* colleague, 328; defeats the Persians, 329. Dolabella, Cn., accused of extortion, 215; puts an end to h*i life, 253. Domitian, reign of, 3(5. Drama, Roman, 272. Drusus, M. Livius, 153, 159. Dnisus, 291 ; sent to Ger. many, 296; receives the tribunitian power, 297 ; poisoned by his wife, 2-8. .Tisus. M. Livius, son of the opponent of C. Grac- chus, elected a Tribune, endeavors to obtain tho Roman franchise for the Allies, 176 ; assassina- ted, 17 <5. Eburones, revolt of the, 232. Fgypt, condition cf, 107; under Augustus, 288. P'lagabalus, Emperor, 322. Knn (Servile War), 140- 7. Ennius, Q., 273. Equestrian Order, 158. Etruria, 2. Etmscans, their name, language, origin, and portions of Italy occu- piel by them, 5, 6 ; wai.-; with the, 43; defeated, 5S; in league with tho INDEX. 357 EUMENES. I GOTHS. HANNIBAL. Umbrians, 5'.) ; defeated Fulvia (mistress of Q. Cu- pulsed and destroyed, at Lake Vadiino, 60. rlB8).219. 47 ; invade the Empire, Luniones, king of Perga- Fulvia, wife of M. Antony, 324. nuis, obtains Mysia, conspired against him, Gracchi, 148-160. Lydia, and part of Ca- 263; is driven out of Gracchus, Caius Sempro ria, 112. Home, and defeated at nius (the Tribune), re- Eunus (Servile War), 140, Perusia, 263 ; dies at turns from Sardinia, 147. Sicyon, 264. 157 ; elected Tribune, Lutropius, 343. Fulvius Nobilior, M., be- lf>7 ; his legal reforms, sieges and captuivs the 157, 15S ; opposed by M. town of Ambracia, 111. Livius Drusus, 159 ; mur- . dered, 160. Fabia Gens and the Veien- Gracchus, Tib. Semproniue tines, 33. . (father of the Tribunes), Fabius, lieutenant, defeat- Gabii, 28 subdues Spain, 115. ed by Mithridates, 208. Gabinius, A., Tribune, 210. Gracchus, Tib. Semproniua Fabius Maxima.-, Q., ap- Gains, 3. r X). (the Tribune), l^uaestoi pointed Dictator, and to Galatia, 106. in Spain, 145; at the tbe command - in - chief Galutians attacked by Cn. siege of Carthage, 140 , against Hannibal, 87 ; Manlius Vulso, deleated elected Tribune, 15u; in- etyled the < unrtator, or in two battles, and com- troduces Agrarian Law, u Lingerer," 87 ; obtain* pelled to sue for peace, 150, 151 ; his murder. Tarentum, 'J6. 112. 152. Fabius Pictor, Q., 282. Galba, Per. Sulpicius, his Gisecia, Magna, 6, 60. Fal)ius Sanga, Q_i 2 -- treachery, 144 ; succeeds Greece under Augustus, Falerii surrenders to the Nero, 302. ksa J Ionian.", 44. Galerius, 328 ; emperor, Greek colonies in Italy, 6. Faustina, wife of Antoni- 329. nus lius, 315. Gallia Ci?alpina, 2. TT Fescennine song?, 276. Gallffisians, 114. 11. Frtmlex, 15. Gallienus, Emperor, 325. Ilndrian, Emperor, 309; Fidente taken and de- Gallus, ICmperor, 324. journey through his stroyed, 43. Gaul, Caesar's wars in, provinces, 310 ; his Edic- Fimbria defeated, slays 22;) -234; under Augus- tum- Perpedmtiii 311; himself, 1S.. tus, 187 ; insurrection in, builds a villa at Tibur, Fl.'icctis, Aulus Persius, 207. 31'.'. 315. Gauls in Italy, 6; (Insu- Ilamilcar, a Carthaginian Flamcnp, 13. bres) conquered, 70. officer, excites Gauls and Flamininus, L.,act of cru- Gellius, Aulus, 350. Ligurians against no- elty of, 127. Gentes, Homan, 12. mans, 113. Flamininus, T. Quinctius, GcrmaniPiiB adopted by Ilnmilcar Barcn, 75; re- appointed to the com- Tiberius, 203 ; quells a lieves Lilybaenm and mand against Philip V., mutiny on the Rhine, Drepanum, 76 ; con- whose army is defeated 206 ; his German cam- quests in Spain, 80 ; in the b.-ittle of Cynos- pni^ns, 296; his death, death- 80. cephal?e, 103 ; proclaims 206. , Hannibal elected to BUC- the independence of Get:>, son of SoptimiiiB, ceed llasdrubal,80; first Greece, 10'); withdraws killed bvCaracnlla,321. campaigns in Spain, 80; the Roman garrisons Glabrio, M. Acilius, 200. besieges and tk<>s S:i- from all the towns of Glaucia, ffllow-denifigogue puntum, 80, 81 ; crones Greece, and returns to of Saturninus, pelted to the Iberu.s and the Pyr- Italy, 100. death with tilea by the enees with a large army, Flaminius, C., defeats the mob. 175. 83; reaches the Rhone, IiiFubres, 70 ; is defeated Gordian, Fmperor, 324. by Hannibal no:\r Lake Goths (Senones) besiege 83; crosses the Alps, 83; encamps in the plains of Trasimemis, and slain, ; ninirli the Po, among the Insu. 86. gainst Rome, 46; battle bres, 84; reduces tlio Florian, Kmi>eror, 326. of the Allia, 4<5 ; Home Tanrinians, 84 ; defeats Florus, L. Aur.BBii.-', 347. destrovei!, 4U ; tin- (J.-.jii- the army of Scipio near FOKHH Mariana, 170. tol besieged, 4:!; Capitol the Ticimis, 84 ; defeats Frentani, 3. eaved, 47; Goths re-' combined army of Scipio 358 INDEX, HANN'O. | JUGURTHA. i LICTOR& and Longus near the Hispania Citerior and Ul- where lie is starved in Trebia, 84 ; marches, tcrior, 114. prison, 16T-8. through Liguria to the Honorius, son of Theodo- Julia, aunt of C ar, mar. Arno, 80; defeats C. sius, 339. } tied to Marina, 214; her Flaminioa at Lake Tra- Horatii, 13. i death, 215. eimenus, 86; eludes Q. Horatius Flaccus, Q. (poet), Julia, daughter of Caesar, Fabius and defeats Mi- 278. married to Pompey, 29. Bucius, S-T; annihilate-! Hortensia, Lex, 51. Julia, daughter of Auguu- an immense Roman army llortensius, Q. ( orator ), | tus, 292. at Cannae-, 88 ; marches' 210, 211, ^10, 211. Julia, Lex, 179-80. into Samnium and Cam- Hostilianus, Emperor, 324. Julian, Lmperor, 337. p:inia, and obtains (Ja- Hostilius Mancinus, C., de- Jux /m(rr,Mmm,12S(note). pua, 89; his rapid feated by the Celtiberi- Justin Martyr, 315. marches, 92 ; campaigns of KG. 215-313, 92, 93 ; obtains, Tareutum, S;5 ; marches up to the walls of Rome, but is unable to take the city, l>5 ; losej Capua, 96 ; loses Salapia, 'JO*; destroys the amiy of Cn. Fulvius at llerdonea, 90 ; loses Ta- rentam, 90 ; is recalled from Italy, 104 ; defeat- ed by Seipio near Zama, an.--, 145. Huns appear on the Dan- ube, 33S; cross the river. 342. Hyrcanus favored by Pom- pey,212 T 213. L lapygians, 5. I. JuvenaliSjDccimus Juniu 345. K. Kings of Rome, 9-28, L. Labeo, Q. Antistius, 35(T. Labieuus (Tribune), 219, Label ius, Dec., 275. Latin War. M: battle 104 - r is protected by An-j Istria ewbdued, 115. tiochti;?, after whose de-lltalia, 7. feat at Magnesia he eg- Italians prep.T, 5. capes, and irf received by Italicus, C. Siliii?, 344. Pru.-iiaB, king of Bithyn- ltly, geography of, 1 ;' Latins, 5. the foot of Ve. c nviu?, 55 ; pelf-sacrifice of P. Dec.hw Mus, 55 ; defeat of the Latins, 55. ia, 111 ; is demanded by fertility, 5; early in hab-Latium, 3; incorporated Rome, takes poison, and itants, 5-; stru.'gleK in with the Republic of dies, 181, 188. Central Italy, 59 ; under Rome, 56. Hanno, in command of Augustus, 2SO, 27. Legends of early Roman Carthaginian fleet, de- lulus, or AscaniiiH, 8, history, 8. feated by Lutatius Catu- Leges and 7'fcWwfcr, 121. lus, 76. Leyioncs, 19, Ii2. Ilasdrubal succeeds Ha- Lentnlns Sum, P. Corne- milcar, 80 ; founds New Janiculnm fortified, 15. lius, 219, 120, i21. Carthage, 80 ; assassi- Janus, temple of, 13 ; Lepidas, 296. nated, 80. closed for the 2d time, Lepidus, M., Consul, op- llfindnibal, brother of 78; for the 3d time, 170. poses the public funeral Hannibal, marclies from Jerasalem besieged and of Sulla, T. 5-6 ; pro- Spain into Italy, 97; i? taken by Pompey,'2l2. popes the repeal of Sul- defeated on the Metsu- Jesn.s Christ, birth of, 293. la's laws, 119 ; collects rus, and slain, f'8. Jugnrtha, under Scipio in an p.rmy and marches Haxtati, 12-.', 123. Spain, 146 ; early life, upon Rome, 199 ; is de- Ilelvctii defeated by Ca?- 162; bribes the Sena- feated near the Mulvian sar, 229. tors, 163 ; defeats Ad- Hir'ge, retires to Sar- Tlernican--, 50. herbal, and puts him to dinia, and dies, 199, i 00. Hcrudes Atticus, 314. death, 10.']; \rardeclared Lepidus, M., Master of the Hiero, king of Syracn?e, against him, but comes Horse, 249 ; forms Tri- 69 ; besieges Messana, > to Rome under fafe-con- umvirate with Octavian 7d; is defeated by the duct, 104; murders Mas- and Antony, 255 ; in Af- Romans, and makes! siv.n, and i.s ordered to rica, 264. peace, 70; his death, 1 mit Italy, 164 ; defeat- Lirinian Rogations and 93. ed byMetellus, 1C6; and Lwa, 49, 150. Hirtius, A., Consul, defeats by Marine, 107 ; who Lidnius colleague with Antony at Mutina, but is takes him prisoner, and Constantino, 381. slnin, 255. conveys him to Rome, Lictors (not>, 25. INDEX. 359 LIGURIA. MARIUS METELLUS Liguria, 2; Lignrians, 113. Manlius Vulso, Cn., defeats Lilyl)fe iin, sieges of, 64, the Galatians, and aft- and sets sail for Cappa- docia and Galatia, 175 ; 74, 75. envard, in conjunction in the Social War, 170 ; Liviua Andronicus, M., with commissioners, con- is surpassed by Sulla, 272. chides a pence with An- ISO ; intrigues to obtain Livius, Titus, 234. tiochus, and settles the the command against Luean, 3)1; his poetry, affairs of Asia, 111, 112. Mithridates, 181 ; is op- 344. Marcellinus, Aminianus, posed by Sulla, who en- Lucania and Lucanians, 4. 348. ters Rome with his army, Lucanians, 0. Marcellus, 292. and Marius makes his Luceret, 1 .'. Mareellus, M., Consul, ar- escape, 183; his suffer- Lucilius, C., 2T6. rives in Sicily, 03; take? ings, risks, and return Lucretius Carus, T. (poet), Loontini, (>'> ; invents to Rome with Cinna, 27(3. Syracuse, where he is 1S5; his conquests, and Lucullus, L. Licinius, op- baffled by Archimedes. the massacres in lldin , poses and d.-f 'ats Mitli- '.>:->, but finally c.-ipturcg 185; in conjunction with ridates in Bithynia and it, '.4 ; takes Salnpia, Cinna elects hitnst 11 Con- Pontus, 203-7 ; sends 9o ; defeated and slain sul for the seventh time, Appius Claudius to Ti- in Lucania, 97. 1S5; his death, ls5. grane.s, 207 ; his reforms Marcius, C., Coriolanus, Marius, the younger, de- in Asia, 2i>7-S; defeats 32. feated by Sulla, l'J2; or- Tigranes at Tigranocer- Marcomanni defeat Verus, ders his ( pponents to ba ta'and at Artaxata, 2 3; 315. put to death, 1^2; em- recalled, and superseded Marius, C., early life, 161 ; barks for Africa, 192 ; by Pompey, 2(19. in Spain with Scipio, puts an end to his own L%utt Magni,W. 146, 162 ; elected Tri life, 193. Lusitania, invaded by Ser. bune, 162 ; sends the Marrucini, 3. Sulpiciu.s Galba, 143 ; Consul Metellus to pris- Marsi, 3. tribes of, subdued by on, 162; elected Praetor, Marsic or Social War, 178- Cse?:ir, 2.4. 16.! ; marries Julia, sis- 80. Lusitanians, 114, 144-5. ter of C. Julius Caesar Martialis, M. Valerius, the elder, 162 ; accompa- 346. nii-s Metellus to Africa, Masinissa, enters into M. 164; returns to Rome, treaty with Scipio, 101 ; Macedonia, kingdom of, and is elected Consul, assists Scipio, liiO; aids 107 ; under Augustus, with command in Nu Scipio to defeat llasdru- 2S9. miilin, 166; repulses bal and Syphax, 10.! ; Macedonian War, 135. combined attack <>f Ju- marries, and soon after- Macrinus, Emperor, 322 ; guithaandliocchus, Hi": ward kills Sophonisba, defeated by Elagabalus, attaches Bocchus t' tin 103-4. 322. Komanr 1 , and takes Ju- Massilia, 87. Macrobhis, 350. gurtha prisoner, both liyMaxiiniu, Emperor, 323. Maecenas, (J. CUniua, 286. tlie aticncy of his Qoea-JMaximuB, Valcriu.--, 346. Mas.ius, Sp., slain, 42. tor Sulla, 167 ; elected Mediterranean Sea iniest- Magister Equitum, 2S (,'onsul during his ab- ed with pirates, 209. (note). Hi'r.ri', and returns to Memmius, C., murdered, Magna GrfB-ia, C, 60. Home, leading Jugurtha 174. Mam-i-tini, 69. in triumph, 168 ; reor- Menapii defeated by Caspar, Manilian Law, Cicero's ad- ganizes the army, 170 ; 231. dr.-ss in favor of, 17. elected Consul a third Menenius Agrippa, fable Manillas, C., Tribune, 211 and fourth time, 1TO ; told by, 31. Mnnip-li, l-'-.>. defeats and destroys the Mesopotamia added to tho Manliua, M., saves thf Cinihri, Twtnnes, and Roman empire, 3-29. Capitol, 47 ; patron of Ambroses, 171; elected Mcssala, M. Valerius, '.'RO. the poor, 48 ; his fate Consul a fifth tim -, and Messana, 6 >. '40. him a Triumph, 171; en- Metellus Ueler, 9~1. Manilas Torcjuatus, L., 2 1 S tr-rs into a compact with Mctc'llus, L.. defeats tho 290, Snturninm and Glaucin, Carthaginians at Panor- Manilas Tonjuatns, T., le 17.3; and i elected C'on- mu j , 73. gond of, 48 ; and of hi Mil a sixth time, 173,|Mptetliw (Macedonicus) > eon, 55. 174 ; lo^es reputation, Q.. 1 :5. 360 INDEX. METELLUS. OCTAVIAN. Metellua (Numidicus), Q. Csecilius, Consul, con- ducts the war in Africa . against Jngurtha, 16.J ; Xsevius, Cn., 273. superseded by Marius, Naples, Bay of, 4. 166. Nasica, Scipio, 152. Metellus, Q., Consul, 224. Navius, Attus, 17. Military Tribunes appoint- Navy, Carthaginian, 70. ed, 41. 71,72. Mimes, 275. Mithridates V., king of Navy, Roman, 70, 71, 7-, 73. Pontus, assassinated, Neapolis attacked, 56. 1SG. Nepos, Cornelius, 281. Mithridates VI., king of Nero and Livius, Consuls, Pontus, early life, 186; defeat Hasdrubal, 97, conquests and alliances, 98. 187-S ; orders a mas- Nero, 301 ; death of, 302. sacre of Romans am Nervii defeated by Caesar. Italians in the cities of 230. Asia, 1S8 ; defeated by Nicomodes III. driven out L. Valerius Flaccus and of Bithynia, 187 ; re- by Sulla, 188-9 ; obtains stored, f8S ; again ex- peace on hard conditions, pelled, 1SS ; dbs, leav- 189 ; defeats Murena 0:1 ing his dominions to the the Ilalys, 20*3; mak, s Roman people, '206. peace with Rom'-, and Xobilefi, l'_ ; 7 (note). evacuates Cappadociii, Xobility, 127-8. 205 ; renews the war \omen Latimim, 66. with Rome, 206 ; over- Nonius. A. , murder of, 174 runs Bithynin, and de- Xorbanus, C., Consul, de feats Cotta, 20(5 ; retreat- feated by Sulla, 191. before Lucullus into Pon- Xoviis Homo, 128 (note). tus, 207 ; defeated by Xuma Pompilius elected Lucullus at Cubira, and to succeed Romulus, 12 ; takes refuge in Avme- his rt ign and institu- ui;i,207 ; defeats Fabiu tions, 12. and Tii:irius, 2d8; unite- Xumantine War, disas- wit hTigranes, when they trous till conducted bv overrun Pontus and Cap Scipio, 145, wlio cap- padocin, 2 ;!> ; i< defeated tures and destroys Xu- by Pompey, 211; escapes mantia, 146. into the Cimmerian Bo - N'umerian, 326. poros, 211; conspiracy of Xumidia, political condi- hu son Phnrnaces, 213 ; tion of and war in, 162- his death, 13. 8. Mithridatic \Vars: First, Xumitor, 9. 18G-9 ; Second, 205 ; Third, 205-1H. Moorish Dartmen, 124. O. Morini defeated bv Canar, Octavian (C.Julius Cfcsar 231. Oclaviauus), appointed Mucius Scsevola, C., 27. heir to Cse :.-ir, 24^ ; Mulvi.-ni ] -.ridge, battle of comes to Rome, and the, 11)9. claims the inheritance, urenn, L., invades Cap- '251; collects an army. p idocia and Pontus, 205 ; 25 i; elected Consul, '.55; is opposed by Mithrida- forms Triumvirate with fces, and defeated, 205. Antony and Lepidus, 256 ; proFcriptions, 256- 7 ; defeats Brutus Rt Philippi, 261 ; returns to PERPERNA. Rome, 263 ; reconcilia- tion with Antony, 264 ; hia fleet destroyed by Sextus. Pompey, 265; re- news the Triumvirate, 266 ; subdues the Dalma- tians, 267; rupture with Antony, 267 ; defeat a Antony and Cleopatra at Actium,i:6S ; his Tri- umph, 27o ; Im;>er;it<>r for life, Princi-ps, Au- gustus, Pontifex Maxi- mum, '/70 ; end of the Republic, 270. Octavius. Sec Octavian. Octavius, Cn., conflict viih China, 1S5; sltiin, 185. Oppian Law repealed, 130. Orosius, 348. Ostia founded, 15. Ostrogoths obtain permis- sion to cross the Dan- ube, n::s. ';t!:o, Salviii', 302. Ml banishe!, 293. Ovidius Xaso. P. (poet), 281. P. Pacuvius, M., 275. Pala?op.>lu taken, 56. Palladius, 350. Palmyra, fall of, 3^5. Pannonia, mutiny in, 296. Panormus, di feat there of Carthaginians, 73. Pansa, C. Vibius, Consul, defeated by Antony, and Papinianus, 350. Papiua Mutilus, C., 179 ; defeated by Sulla, IS". Patercultis, Velleius, )'4G. Patns ]Ha jorum and Mi- norum GmHum^M. Patricians, 12 ; struggles between them and the Plebeians, 29 ; ascend- ency of the Patricians, 29. S v Plebeians. Pafronitfi 12.' P.-utlus, 350. Peligni, 3. Pcrgamus, 106 ; made a p.ovince, 147. Perpcrnn, M., re-enforces Sertcrjus in Spain, 200 ; becomes jealous of Ser- toriu?, and assassinates IXDEX. 361 PERSEUS. I POMPEV. PROCONSULS, him, 202 ; in defeated by! rielisci/a, 40, 51 ; and Lc- ! Cesar, '>;;'.) ; meapure? in defeated by L. ur! Paullus, 135 ; death, 136. Persius, 345. 1'ertinax, Emperor, 318. Pescennius Niger, 319. PetreiuB,M.,2zL I'ctrouiiu Arbiter, 348. Phedrus, 340. i'oripeius Strabo, Cn., in Social War, ISO. (Cn. Pompe Magnus), early life and; ouver, 200-1 ; receives | the nrnama of Mngniif,! 201 ; sent to Spain as; Proconsul nguinst Scrto-' rius, 201 ; failures and Pontiffs, 12,51. successes, 201; def. ats Pontine Marshes, 4. Pompey, 202. ] fw, 121. Perseus succeeds Philip as Plebs, Plebeians, origin of i king of Macedon, 134; the, 14; sufferings of the,] 30 ; Ager Publicus, 30 ; secession of Plebeians to the Sacred Mount, 31 ; institution of Tribunes of the Plebf, 31; Agra-| rian Law introduced by Sp. Cassius, 31. Pliny, fciecundus Major, 349. I'harnaces, conspiracy of, Toe ,i, 68 (note). against Mithridates, '213; I'oilio, Asinius, -2 SO. confirmed in possession Pomo3:iuui, 1), *2 ). of the kingdom of thv Pompe.lius Silo, Q., 178. Uosponu, 213. I -omiiflipolis, 2lO. Philip, Emperor, 324 Philip V., king of Matt- don, enters into a treaty Pompey with Hannibal, 107 ; ap- pears in the Adriatic with a fleet, and lays siege to Oricus and Apol- loni-i,107; takes Oricus, but is driven from Apol- li;iii;u, and burns his fleet, 107 ; in alliance with the AcL8C:ins, andj at peace with the JEto-\ lians and Romans, 108 ;' assists Hannibal at Za- niii, 103 ; attacks the Rhodiuns and Attains, king of Pergumus, 10S ; treats with Aotiochus for the partition oi 1'gypt, 108 ; besiege- Atlieus, which is re- lieved by a Roman fleet, 108 ; sues for peace after lii.s defeat in the battle of Cynoscephale, 109 ; refuses to take part with AntiochiM against th: Romans, 110; liis denth, 184 I lui-riicians, 63. I halanx, 122. Phraates, king of the Par- tliians, 2lH. Picenum, 2. Piracy in thn Mediterrane- an suppressed by Pom- pey, -10. Piso, Cn. Calpurniu?, 218. Plncentia taken and de- stroyed, u;<. Plant ia Papiria, Lex, 180. opposition to Cesar, 23'J- 40 ; invested by the Sen, ate with command of the army, 240 ; retreats before Cesar, i42 ; em- barks for Greece, 242; besieged by Cesar at 1 >yr- rhachium, '.44 ; forces Cesar to reircat, 2-!4; defeated by Ce.. , cieieaiB nit? ivj- mans, 57, 58; is defeat. Consul, with Cnsssus, ed and put to death, 203 ; restores the Tribu- 59. nitian power, 203; sup- F'ontiup, the Snmnite, 193. presses piracy in the Pontup, 106; kingdom of, Mediterranean, HO; FU- 186 ; made a Roman ].erse,les l.uc-ullus in the province, 212. East, 211 ; defeats Mith- PorciusCato, M. SeeVato. ridates in Leaser Arm - Populus Romantig, 14. i ia, 211 ; rec-cives the Porsena, Lnrs, marches submission, of Tigrancs, against 1,'onie in aid of VI 2 ; hij conjiie.*ts in Tarciuin, 26 ; bridge de- Syria and Palestine, 212- fended by Tloratius Co- 13; returns to Italv, 213; des, 26; 0. Mucius Sca?- his Triumph, 223"; Fen- vola, 7; Cloalia swims ate refuses to sanction across the Tiber, 27 ; his measures in Asia, J'orfcna withdraws his 224, but afterward rati- JUTMV, '27; war with the fies them, 2.:5 ; forms La tin*, 28; battle of the cabal with Ce.sar and Lake Kegflltu, 28 ; do.-ith Cras.us ( first Triumvi- of Tarquinius Superbus, rate), 225; marries Cse- 28. .' ar's daughter Julia, 2?5; Prseneste Furrendei^, 193. meets Cisar nnd Cra. a - Pietor Pereginnuc, 117. PU.S at Lucn, 236; Con- 1'iaetor?, afterward called sul with Crassiis, 236 ; Consuls, i-5. obtains government of Pretoi's and Pisetorehip, Spain, 236; l.is new the- 5', 117. atre at Koine opened, Principe^ 122. : his wife Julia dies, Privernum, conquest of, 66. 237 ; elected sole Consul, Probus, Emperor, 826. 238; becomes hostile to Proconsul?, 118. INDEX. PROPERTIUS. ROME f SAMMTES. Propertius, Sextug Aure- Reguluetundce, 1'28 (note). bines, and thus becouii.'s 36. Republic established at sole ruler, 11 ; his death, Publilian Laws, 51. Rome, 25 ; end of, 270. 11 ; institutions, 1-.'. Pnbliaani, 119 (note). Rhea Silvia, legend of, 8. Romulus Augustus, 3 j .3. Pulcheria, 351. Rhodes, 107 ; school of Rorarii, 123. Punic War, First, 68-76 ; rhetoric at, 215. Rufinus, 339. Second, 82-K.5. R'lfj'ttio and Lex, 49 (note). Rufus, Q. CuVtius, 347. Pyrrhtia, king of Epirus, assists the Tarentines, Roma Quadrata, 9. Roman Literature, sketch Rullus (Tribune), 219. Kupilius, P., captures Tau- 62; defeats the Honiara of,272-2S5; Poetry: Sa- romenium and Enna, near lleraclea, 02 ; sends turnian Metre and the and ends the First Ser- Cineas to negotiate a Drama, 272 ; M. Liviiw vile War, 147. peace, 63; terms reject- Andronicus, 272, 273 ; Uutilius Rufus found ed, 63 ; takes Praeneste, Cn. Nsevius, 273 ; Q. Kn- guilty and banished, 63; winter quarters at nius, 213 ; T. Maccius 175. Tarentum, 03 ; embassy Plautus, '273 ; I 1 . Teren- Rutilius Lupus, P., Con- of Fabricius, Oi!; propo- tius Afer, 274 ; Q. Cre-il- sul, 179 ; defeated and sal to poison Pjrrrhus, ius, L. Afranius, 274 ; slain, i7'J. 64; releases Roman pris- M. Pacuvius, 275; L. oners without ransom, Accius, 275 ; Ati'-l'mice 64 : crosses over into Fabulce, Mimes, 275 ; S. Sicily, 61; is repulsed at Dec. Laberius, P. Syrus, Sabellians, 3. Lilybseum, 64 ; returns 275 ; Fescennine Songs Sabine virgins, rape of, 10. to Italy, 04 ; seizes the 270 : Satires, 270 ; c. Sabini, 3, 11 (note). treasures of the temple Lucilius, 270 ; T. Lucre- Sacred Mount, first seces- of Proserpine at Locri, tius Cams, 276 ; Vale- sion to, 31 ; secoii I re- 05: his remorse, 65 ; is rius Catullus, 270 ; P. cession, 39. defeated at Beneventum, Yirgilius Maro, 277; Q. Sacrovir, 21)7. 65 ; returns to Greece, lloratius Flaccus, *7S ; Saguntum captured, 81. and is slain, 65. Albius Tibullus, 280 ; Sa'lii, priests of M,;rs 13. Sextus Aurelius Proper- Sallustius Crispus, C.. 2^ t. tins, 28 ; P. Ovi.iius Salvius, leader of the slaves Naso, 281. Prow Writ- in Sicily, 172 ; assume.-* Qurcstio Pcrpetua, 107. Quaestors and Quasdtorship, ers Q. Fabius Pictor, 282 ; L. Cincius Alimen- the surname of Trypho.i, 172. 4>, 117. tus, 282 ; M. Porcius Salvus Julianus, 35'). Quintilianus, M. je\,bius, Cato, 23 1 ; -M. Tullius Samnites, history, 53 ; 34s. Cicero, 2S2 ; M. Tere-i- tribes, 53; coniu T Cam- Quintal?, P., speccA of Cic- tius Varro, 283 ; C. Ju- pania and Lufvinia, 53 ; ero for, '210. lius Cse-ar, 283, C. Sal- attack the Sidicini and QH/M'&V, 11 (note). lu-tius (,'rispus, i'S4 : Campanians, 53 ; enter Cornelius Nepos, 2i4 : into war with the i o- K, 'I itus Livius, 284. mans, 54; are defeated Rome, situation and first at Mount Gaums, 54 ; Rabirius, C., 219. inhabitants, 7 ; legends peace T>4 ; seo.nd m- Ramnes, 12. and early historv, S ; (Jrent War witli the Ro- Rasena, 5. first four kings 9-15: mans, 57 ; quarrel be- Regillus, Lake, battleof, 28. last threes kings 10-28 : tween Q. Fahins Maxi- Regulus, M. Atilius, de- foundation uf, '.) ; flc- mus and L. Papirius v ur- feats the Carthaginians, stroyed by tne Gut! is Bor, 57: Samn:te gener- 72; is defeated by Xan- (Senones) under Brt.'n- al, <;. 1'ontius, defeats thippus, 73. nua, 47 ; rebuilt, 48 ; the Romans at the Cnu INDEX. 363 SAMNIUM. | SICILY. SULLA. dine Forks, 57, 53; treaty ' poses Ti. Gracchus, 153 ; tor for, 118; under An rejected by the Romans, fmnd dead in his room, gustus, 2S7. 58; successes of the Ro- 1 153. Sicinius Dentatua slain, 23. in;m-<, and peace, 58 ; rfcipio, L. Cornelius (Asi- Sidieini, 53. third war, 5') ; battle of: aticus) appointed to the.silanud, 297. 8,-ntinum, 53 ; defeat, command against Anti- Slaved under the Romans, and peace, 59. 1 ochus, who had invaded j 140. Banmium and Samnites, tlie kingdom of Pergi-| Social War, or Manic War, 4. rniis, 111; defeats Anti- 178-180. S.".p>r, king of Persia, 336*. ochus near Magnesia, Socii, or Allies, 66; troops Sardinia obtained from and returns to Home, furnished by, 123. Carthage, and formed lit; prosecution of, 130. Soriorum Prcefecti, 123. into a Roman province, Scipio Nasica, P. Corne- Soli, afterward I'ompeiopo- 77; revolt in, 115; Pi- lius, subdues the Boii, lis, occupied by pirates, tor for, 118. 114. 210. Satires, Roman, 276. Sempronian Laws, 157. Spain in two provinces, Saturnian Metre, 272. Senate, 12, 119. 114; Praetors, for, 118; Saturninus, elected Tri- Senators bribed by Jugur- under Augustus, 287. bune, 174 ; brings in an tha found guilty by a Spanish Wars, 143-146. Agrarian IAW, 174 ; commission, 164. Sparta,! ( >7. murders Memmiux, 174; S'">iatUA Comultum, 120. Spartacus, a gladiator, ex- is declared a public ene- Seneca, 301; his writing?, cites an insurrection of my, 174; pelted to death 34'.. slave?, '202 ; devastates with tiled by the mob, Seneca, M. Annacus, 348. Italy with a large army 175. Senones, 45. of slaves, 203 ; defeated Scipio, Cneius, in Spain, Septimius Severus, Empe- by Crassus, 20J ; slain in 95 ; slain there, 95. ror, 320; penetrates to battle, ',03. Scipio, P. Cornelius, the interior of Scotland, Sjwlia apiiiM won by A. marches to oppose Han- 321. Cornelius Cossus, 4H. nibal, 83 ; killed in Sertorius Macro, 299. Statius, P. I'apinius 344. Spa in, 95. Sertorius,Q.,in Spain, 200; St.licho, L39. Scipio Africnnus Major, P. defeats Q. Metellus. 20(1 ; St. Chrysostom, 311. Cornelius, his. early life, is opposed to Pompey, ti'tft'ctex, 68. 99 ; elected Proconsul, 201 ; assassinated by Sulla, C. Cornelius, early and goes to Spain, 100 ; Perperna,202. life and character, 167 ; captur s New Cart hag', Servile War at Carthage, (Allies tor with Marius in 100; defeats llasdrubul, 77. Africa, 168 ; g.iins over 101; master of nearly Servile War in Sicily, Bocchus, and entraps all Spain, by a victory First, 146-7 : S.cond, and makes a prisoner of (place uncertain), 101; Kuppressecl by M. Aqull- Jiiftirtha,167 ; in Social crosses over to Africa, lius, 172. Wv, ISO; Consul, 181; 101; quells insurrection Servilius, 0., murdered, rivalry with M; r:us,182; and mutiny in Spun, 178. niters Rome with hid 101 ; captures Gades, Servius Tullius, Fucceeds army, nnd takes posses- 102 ; returns to Rome, Tanjuinius Pri-scus, IS ; sion of the city, 183 ; and is elected Consul, reforms the constitution. leaves Rome for the East, 102; passes over to Sici- and divides the terri- 1S4 ; plunders Athens, ly, and thence to Africa, tory, IS ; increases the 188 ; victory at Orclio- 103 ; besieges Utica, 103 ; city, and surrounds it menus, 139; makr is opposed by Hasdmbal with a wall, 20 ; forms with Milhridates, 1S. ; nd Syphax, whom he an alliance with the L'it- overcome-; 1'imbria, ISli ; defealc, 103; defeats ins, 20; life death, 22 ; defeats, the younger Ma- Hannibal near Zama, his two daughters, '^2. rius, and enters Rome, 104; returns to Koine, Seven hills ot Romr, 20 I'i2 ; battle with the 1 05 ; prosecuted, 131; re- 1 (note). Samnites and Lucanian : th-es from Rome, 131 ; Sextius, L, first Plebeian for the possessii-n of death, 131. Consul, 5'. Rome, 192 ; Allies de- Scipio Africanus Minor, Sicily invndo 1 by the Ro feated, 193 ; elected Dic- 140 ; captures and de- mans, 69-71 ; made sub tator, 193; his massacres stroys Carthage. 14' ; ject to the Ronutn?, ex- and proscription*, 104 : *nt to Spain, 14 r >; op- ccpt Syracuse, 76; Pnc- elected Consul, 194 : hid INDEX. SULPICIUS HUFfJS. ] TRIARIUS. VEIL Triumph, and assumed I Tullius, 22; his tyran Tribes, Assembly of the, title of lelix, 194; his ny, 22; alliance with th< 121. military colonies, 194, Latins, '^2 ; war with the Tribune*, 31, 117, 121. i:>5 ; his reforms, 104, Volsciaus, 23; founds tin Tnbuneship degraded by 105; resignation of l)ic- ! temple named the Capi- Sulla's laws, 1U7. tatorship, retirement, tolium, 23 ; purchases Ti-Hiuni Militum, 123. and death, 105 ; his leg- the three Sybilline books Tributum, a property-tax, islation, 19(5-103. 23; attacks and capture 121. Stilpicius Rufus, P., sells Gabii, 23 ; sends to con- Triumph, the general's, himself to Marius, 182; sult the oracle at Delphi, 124. put to death, 183. '23; besieges Anlea, 24 Triumvirate, First, 225 ; Stii) flic ttio 125. LucretiaravishedbySex Second, 256. Synorium, fortress of, 211. tinTarquinius, 24; deatl Triumviri visit Greece to Syphax, at war with Car- of Lucretia, 25 ; is ex inquire into the laws, thage, 95, is visited by polled from Home witl 37. Scipio, but, falling in love his sf>ns,25; attempts to Tullianum (dungeon), 221. with Sophonisba, daugh- regain the throne, 25 Tullus llostilius elected to ter of Hasdrubal, be- his Etru-can allies de- succeed Numa, 13 ; bat- comes an ally of the Car- feated, 26; dies at Cu- tle of the Horatii and thaginians, 101 ; defeat- mse. 28. Curiatii, 13 ; conquers ed by Scipio and Masi- Terentius Afer, P., 2T4. the Albans, 14 ;. con- nissa, and flies into Nu- Teutones and Ambrones quers the Etruscans, 14; vnidhi, 103 ; is pursued enter France, in marcl punishes Mettius Fuffe- and tnkeu prisoner by for Italy, 1TO ; defeated tius, 14 ; destroys Alba Leeiius and Masinissa, and destroyed by Marius, Longa, and removes in- 103. 111. habitants to Rome, 14 ; Syracuse captured by Mar- Theodosius, Emperor, 339. his reign and death, 14. cellus, 94. Thurii, 60. Turnice, 123. Syria, condition of, 106 ; Tiberius, 2D1 ; divorced Twelve Tables, 38. made a Roman province, from his wife, 292 ; suc- 212. ceeds Augustus, 21 5; re- 17 Syr us, P., 275. tires to Capivae, 298 ; death, 299. Ulphilas, 338. T Tibullus, Albius ( poet ), ripianus, 350. 280. Umbria, 2. Tacitus, Emperor, 326. Tigranes, king of Armenia, L'mbrians in league with Tacitus, the historian, 346. receives his father-in-law the Etruscans, 5;l. Tarentum, 60, 62 ; cap- Mithridates, 20T ; defeat- Umbro-Sabellians, 5. tured, 65. ed by Lucullus at Tigra- Tarpeia, 10. nocerta, 208 ; acts in V. Tarquinim Piiscus, Lu- concert with Mithrida- ciu', his birth and de- te., 200; submits to Pom - Vadimo, Lake, defeat of scent, 16 ; elected 5th pey, 212. Gauls and Etruscans king of Home, 1(>; de- Tigranes the younger re- there, 60. feats the h'abines and volts against his father. Valentiniau, Emperor, 338. captures Collatia, 16 ; 212. Valentinian III., 342. takes also many Latin Titles, 12. Valerian and Horatir.n towns, and becomes ruler Titus takes Jerusalem, Laws, 40. of all Latium, 16; con- 303 ; emperor, 3!)4. Valerian, Emperor, 324. structs the cloacae, 16 ; Trajanus Decius, Empe- Valerius, Corvu^-, M., le- lays out the Circus Max- ror, 324. gend of, 48. imtis, and institutes the Trajanus, M. Ulpius, Em- Valerius Publicola, 26. games of the Circus, IT; peror, iJOT ; conflict with Vandals invited into Af- increases the Senate, the the Dacians, i;OS ; leads rica, 842; plunder Home, Equites, and the Vestal an army into Assyria, 848. Virgins, IT ; app'iin'a 308; death, 300. Varro, M. Terentius, 283. Servius Tullius his suc- Trasimenus, Lake, Roman Varus, '291. cessor, 18; his reign and army destroyed at, 86. Vec.tinalia, 121. death, 13. 7'nanY, 123. Veii besieged, 43 ; Alban Tarquinius Superbus, Lu- Triarius defeated by Mith- Lake, 43 ; city captured, cius, succeeds Ssrvius ridates, 208. 44. INDEX. 365 VEUTES. Velitt* 123. Vcneti defeated by Cs&?ar, 231. Ventidiiif, Tribune and Contml, 2G> r > ; his ,uccerJ.s- ftil war.s against the Par- VOLTURCIUS. Vettius, L., accuses C.rsar. 2-2; i* thrown into pris- on, 222. Vsxillimu*, 122. Via ./Emilia, Appia, Fla minina, 11-1, ll'.. Victor, Aurelius, 347. thians, 265. Vcrcingetorix defeated and iViriatiiuc, 144; taken prisoner, 234. | ted, 145. VeruH, L., 314, 3 i 5. Virgiliu* Maro, P., 277. Vestal Virgins, 13, 17. VolgeeM III., king of the JV.s'/mj,3. I'arthiang, 3:4. Veto of the Tribunes, 31, Volturciu?, T., '220. 121. VVallia, 341. X. Xanthippus, 72, 73. Zenobia, queen of Palmy, ra, 325. OP THB UWIVEESIT THE END. Aft, i/ . THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW AN INITIAL FINE OF 25 CENTS WILL BE ASSESSED FOR FAILURE TO RETURN THIS BOOK ON THE DATE DUE. THE PENALTY WILL INCREASE TO SO CENTS ON THE FOURTH DAY AND TO $1.OO ON THE SEVENTH DAY OVERDUE. 26 1934 MAR 28 1934 NOV 16 1S35 YC191737 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY