* Note: The remarkable speech of Cassius shows the proud feelings of the Roman aristocracy on this subject .-- M] [Footnote 60: Apuleius in Apolog.p.548.edit.

Delphin] [Footnote 61: Plin.Hist.Natur.l.xxxiii.

47.] The number of subjects who acknowledged the laws of Rome, of citizens, of provincials, and of slaves, cannot now be fixed with such a degree of accuracy, as the importance of the object would deserve.

We are informed, that when the Emperor Claudius exercised the office of censor, he took an account of six millions nine hundred and forty-five thousand Roman citizens, who, with the proportion of women and children, must have amounted to about twenty millions of souls.

The multitude of subjects of an inferior rank was uncertain and fluctuating.