Capitolo 87
you outdistance with him.
Here I desire to only introduce an episode in this history that we have been
discussing, an episode that is unique, however in venerable old man and, till now as
I know, in modern history. Our knowledge of the accident comes from a
edict of the emperor Diocletian, and this document has a carrying direct on
a subject of actual discussion, because it contains a diatribe
against the tall cost of way of living and record the heroic attempt that the
I govern Roman it made ridurrlo. In his/her effort to bring down prices to
what he considered a normal level, Diocletian didn't satisfy him with
such half measures as us we are trying in our attempts to suppress
combinations in limitation of work, but he audaciously mended the prices of maximum
to that steer, wheat, eggs, attire and the other articles could be sold,
and it prescribed the criminal punishment of death for some one that cleared him of his/her commodities
to a taller figure. Its edict is a very comprehensive document, and
specific prices for seven hundred or eight hundred different articles.
This systematic attempt to regulate work was a lot in the tender ones with
the character of Diocletian and his/her theory of government. Perhaps anybody Roman
emperor, with the possible exception of Hadrian it showed so extraordinary
administrative ability and it proposed so a lot of social and vast reforms as
Diocletian. Its systematic attempt to suppress the Christianity is a case
in point, and in the last twenty years of his/her kingdom him completely
reorganized the government. He frankly introduced the monarchist
principle, fixed on a method of succession to the throne, redivided the
provinces, established a system attentively classified of officers party,
him with label of court and dress, and it reorganized the coinage and
the system of taxation. Us they are not surprised therefore that he had the
the courage to attach this difficult question of tall prices, and that his
plan almost covered all the articles that would have its subjects