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ery well have survived him. 9. IV. IV. Treaty between Rome and Numidia 10. IV. V. Warfare of Prosecutions 11. IV. IV. Rival Demagogism of the Senate. The Livian Laws 12. IV. V. And Reach the Danube 13. IV. IV. Administration under the Restoration 14. IV. VI. Collision between the Senate and Equites in the Administration of the Provinces Chapter VII 1. IV. III. Modifications of the Penal Law 2. I. VII. Relation of Rome to Latium, II. V. As to the Officering of the Army 3. II. VII. Furnishing of Contingents; III. XI. Latins 4. III. XI. Roman Franchise More Difficult of Acquisition 5. III. XI. Roman Franchise More Difficult of Acquisition 6. IV. III. Democratic Agitation under Carbo and Flaccus, IV. III. Overthrow of Gracchus 7. These figures are taken from the numbers of the census of 639 and 684; there were in the former year 394, 336 burgesses capable of bearing arms, in the latter 910,000 (according to Phlegon Fr. 12 Mull., which statement Clinton and his copyists erroneously refer to the census of 668; according to Liv. Ep. 98 the number was--by the correct reading-- 900,000 persons). The only figures known between these two--those of the census of 668, which according to Hieronymus gave 463,000 persons-- probably turned out so low only because the census took place amidst the crisis of the revolution. As an increase of the population of Italy is not conceivable in the period from 639 to 684, and even the Sullan assignations of land can at the most have but filled the gaps which the war had made, the surplus of fully 500,000 men capable of bearing arms may be referred with certainty to the reception of the allies which had taken place in the interval. But it is possible, and even probable, that in these fateful years the total amount of the Italian population may have retrograded rather than advanced: if we reckon the total deficit at 100,000 men capable of bearing arms, which seems not excessive, there were at the time of the Social War in Italy three non- burgesses for two burgesses. 8. The form of oath is preserved (in Diodor. Vat. p. 116); it runs thus: "I swear by the Capitoline Jupiter and by the Roman Vesta and by the hereditary Mars and by the generative Sun and by the nourishing Earth and by the divine founders and enlargers (the Penates) of the City of Rome, that he shall be my friend and he shall be my foe who is friend or foe to Drusus; also that I w
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