3/38 23) must have been frequently repeated in those primitive times, which have been so undeservedly praised.] [Footnote 51: Non esse in civitate duo millia hominum qui rem habereni. This vague computation was made A.U. C.649, in a speech of the tribune Philippus, and it was his object, as well as that of the Gracchi, (see Plutarch,) to deplore, and perhaps to exaggerate, the misery of the common people.] [Footnote 52: See the third Satire (60-125) of Juvenal, who indignantly complains, Quamvis quota portio faecis Achaei! Jampridem Syrus in Tiberem defluxit Orontes; Et linguam et mores, &c. |