175-187.

From probable, or certain grounds, he assigns to Paris 23,565 houses, 71,114 families, and 576,630 inhabitants.] [Footnote 73: This computation is not very different from that which M.
Brotier, the last editor of Tacitus, (tom.ii.p.

380,) has assumed from similar principles; though he seems to aim at a degree of precision which it is neither possible nor important to obtain.] [Footnote 7311: M.Dureau de la Malle (Economic Politique des Romaines, t.i.p.

369) quotes a passage from the xvth chapter of Gibbon, in which he estimates the population of Rome at not less than a million, and adds (omitting any reference to this passage,) that he (Gibbon) could not have seriously studied the question.

M.Dureau de la Malle proceeds to argue that Rome, as contained within the walls of Servius Tullius, occupying an area only one fifth of that of Paris, could not have contained 300,000 inhabitants; within those of Aurelian not more than 560,000, inclusive of soldiers and strangers.