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The People Common of Rome Antica
Studies of the Roman Life and the Literature
From
Frank Frost Abbott
Kennedy Professor of the Latin Language and the Literature in Princeton
University
New York
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Prefatory Note
This book as the volume on "Society and Politics in Rome Antica,"
quantity with the life of the common people, with their language and
literature, their occupations and funs and with them social,
you condition politics, and economic. We am interested the common people
of Rome because they made some empire what was. They brought the
Roman standard to the Euphrates and the Atlantic; they lived to the foreign countries as
dealers, growers and soldiers to hold and Romanize the provinces or them
it was home, while working as carpenters, masons or bakers, to provision the
the daily necessities of the capital.
The other side of the subject of which you/he/she has hocked the attention the
author in to study these themes has been the many points of similarity
what they rise between venerable old man and the modern conditions, and among the
problems that it faced the Roman and those that compare us. What a policy
will the government adopt toward stock companies? As you can the cost to live
is kept down? What effect has the private beneficences on the character of a
people? A nation tries to introduce its his/her own language in the
territory of a subject people, or it is able him/it allows the mother language to be
used, and, if it tries to introduce his/her his/her own language, as you can better him
defeasible harbors his/her object? The Roman attacked all these questions, you/he/she resolved some
of them admirably, and it dearly failed with others. His/her successes and
its failures are perhaps illuminating equally, and the fact that his
attempts to improve the conditions social and economic courses through one period of
thousand years should make the study of them of the greatest interest and