Capitolo 84
is written. It would be a fascinating and instructive record. In him the
you change in the character of the Romans and in them social and economic
conditions would clearly go out. It would disclose a strange mixture of
the worthy and unworthy motives in their men of state and statesmen that were
sometimes operated by understanding for the poor man, sometimes from a desire for
popular favor, from a honest desires to check extravagance or the immorality, or
from the fear that it is probable that the dissatisfaction of the masses drives them in
revolution. We should find the Roman people, while recognizing the threat to
theirs simple, frugal way of living what disposition in the raids of the Greek
civilization, and turning in their helplessness to their officers, the
censors, to protect them from a demoralization that, from them really
efforts, they could not withstand. We should find the same officers
preaching against suicide of run, living eccentric, and escape of public
duties and imposing criminal punishments and restrictions in the most autocratic
you shape on men of similar tall and low degree who it failed to adopt the
official standard of behavior. We should read of laws decreed in the same
spirit, laws that tighten the number of guests on which you/they would be entertained
an only occasion, and prescribing criminal punishments for guests and similar innkeeper, if
the cost of a supper exceeded the statutory limit. All this belongs the
initial phase of fatherly government. Motives were praiseworthy, even if
the results were futile.
With the advent of the Caws, toward the closing of the second century
before ours was, become moral considerations less well visible and
the paternalism assumes a more philanthropic and political character. We see
these changes reflected in the real estate rights and the laws of corn. To take on first
the free distribution of earth from the state, of first days of the
Colonies of republic of citizens were founded recently conquer in the
districts of Italy to serve as garrisons on the frontier. It was a fair