Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.

south of the Arnus and Aesis. This

f the whole, bounded on the north by CAERE, on the

PENDENT CO

es, into thirty-three, afterwards thirty-five districts (tribes)

ricts were

Of

maritime, now numbering seven, bu

IPIA (towns bou

ned by a praefect, who was sent fro

COMMUNITIES

ES, now numbering twenty-two, aft

es and adjoining territory composed more tha

t obliged to pay tribute, but were called upon to f

country were divided i

ding office), and jus provocationis (right of appeal). Private rights were jus connubii (right of intermarriage); and jus commercii (right of trading and holding property). Full rights were acqu

ubjects and did not

o were ALLI

e SLAVES, who po

NT FOREIGNERS, who posse

s of Rome, of the Roman colonie

who possessed only private rights, the citizens of all th

AD

kly carried. They were chains which bound her possessions indissolubly together. Some of them remain today a monument of Roman thoroughness, enterprise, and sagacity,-the wonder and admiration of modern road-builders. By these

ED

eceding chapters were Appius Claudius, the Censor and patrici

in the Comitia Tribúta; this, however, shut out the plebeians of the city who owned no land, and

búta, and gave to property owners of any sort the right to vote. Eight years later this law was modified, so that

e VIA APPIA, was built under his supervision. This road ran at first from Rome as far as Capua. It was constructed so well t

soldiers large assignments of the Ager Publicus. He drained the low and swampy country near Reáte by a canal. He was the conqueror of Pyrrhus. A man of ster

t use to his country. Previous to the battle of Asculum, Pyrrhus attempted to bribe him by large sums of money, and, failing in this, thought to frighten

e people were peasants, small land-owners, of frugal habits and moral qualities. But comparatively few owned large estates as yet, or possessed large tracts

Southern Italy. Luxury became more fashionable; morals began to degenerate. Greed for wealth obtained by plunder began to get po