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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER II: The Internal Prosperity In The Age Of The Antonines
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78, et seq.,) and he establishes the principle that the census comprehended all the confederate cities which had the right of Isopolity .-- M.] [Footnote 24: Appian.

de Bell.Civil.l.i.Velleius Paterculus, l.

ii.
c.

15, 16, 17.] [Footnote 25: Maecenas had advised him to declare, by one edict, all his subjects citizens.

But we may justly suspect that the historian Dion was the author of a counsel so much adapted to the practice of his own age, and so little to that of Augustus.].


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