--Principle of the Roman religion--Worship--Formalism--
Prayer--Omens--The priests.

WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS. The dead--Worship of the dead--Cult of the hearth.

THE FAMILY. Religion of the family--Marriage--Women--Children--Father of
the family.

CHAPTER XIX

THE ROMAN CITY. Formation of the Roman people--The kings--The Roman
people--The plebeians--Strife between patricians and plebeians--
The tribunes of the plebs--Triumph of the plebs.

THE ROMAN PEOPLE. Right of citizenship--The nobles--The knights--The
plebs--Freedmen.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC. The comitia--Magistrates--Censors--
Senate--The course of offices.

CHAPTER XX

ROMAN CONQUEST. The Roman army--Military service--The levy--Legions and
allies--Military exercises--Camp--Order of battle--Discipline--
Colonies &ad military roads.

CHARACTER OF THE CONQUESTS. War--Conquest of Italy--Punic
wars--Hannibal--Conquest of the Orient--Conquest of barbarian
lands--The triumph--Booty--Allies of Rome--Motives of conquest.

RESULTS OF THE CONQUESTS. Empire of the Roman people--The public
domain--Agrarian laws.

CHAPTER XXI

THE CONQUERED PEOPLES. The provincials--Provinces--The proconsuls--
Tyranny and oppression of the proconsuls--The publicans--Bankers--
Defencelessness of the provincials.

SLAVERY. Sale of slaves--Condition of slaves--Number of slaves--Urban
slaves--Rural slaves--Treatment of slaves--Ergastulum and mill--
Character of the slaves--Revolts--Admission to citizenship.

CHAPTER XXII

TRANSFORMATION OF LIFE IN ROME. Influence of Greece and the Orient.

CHANGES IN RELIGION. Greek gods--The Bacchanals--Superstitions of the
Orient--Sceptics.

CHANGES IN MANNERS. The old customs--Cato the Elder--The new manners--
Oriental luxury--Greek humanity--Lucullus--The new education--New
status of women--Divorce.

CHAPTER XXIII

FALL OF THE REPUBLIC. Causes of the decadence--Destruction of the
peasant class--The city plebs--Electoral corruption--Corruption of
the Senate--Corruption of the army.

THE REVOLUTION. Necessity of the revolution--Civil wars--The Gracchi--
Marius and Sulla--Pompey and Caesar--End of the Republic--Need of
peace--Power of the individual.

CHAPTER XXIV

THE EMPIRE AT ITS HEIGHT. The twelve Caesars--The emperor--Apotheosis--
Senate and people--The praetorians--Freedmen of the emperors--
Despotism and disorder.