d' Italia, l.ii.c.

l.), are most jealous of communication the privileges of citizenship; monarchies or oligarchies willingly multiply the numbers of their free subjects.
The most remarkable accessions to the strength of Rome, by the aggregation of conquered and foreign nations, took place under the regal and patrician--we may add, the Imperial government .-- M.] [Footnote 21: Herodotus, v.97.It should seem, however, that he followed a large and popular estimation.] [Footnote 22: Athenaeus, Deipnosophist.l.vi.p.272.

Edit.

Casaubon.
Meursius de Fortuna Attica, c.4.

* Note: On the number of citizens in Athens, compare Boeckh, Public Economy of Athens, (English Tr.,) p.