* Note: Causes seem to have been pleaded, even in the senate, in both languages.Val.Max.loc.cit.

Dion.l.lvii.c.

15 .-- M] It was by such institutions that the nations of the empire insensibly melted away into the Roman name and people.

But there still remained, in the centre of every province and of every family, an unhappy condition of men who endured the weight, without sharing the benefits, of society.
In the free states of antiquity, the domestic slaves were exposed to the wanton rigor of despotism.

The perfect settlement of the Roman empire was preceded by ages of violence and rapine.