As early as the time of Hadrian, it was the just complaint of the ingenuous natives, that the capital had attracted the vices of the universe, and the manners of the most opposite nations.

The intemperance of the Gauls, the cunning and levity of the Greeks, the savage obstinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper of the Asiatics, and the dissolute, effeminate prostitution of the Syrians, were mingled in the various multitude, which, under the proud and false denomination of Romans, presumed to despise their fellow-subjects, and even their sovereigns, who dwelt beyond the precincts of the Eternal City.

[52] [Footnote 50: The histories of Livy (see particularly vi.

36) are full of the extortions of the rich, and the sufferings of the poor debtors.
The melancholy story of a brave old soldier (Dionys.Hal.l.vi.

c.
26, p.