This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...of many ills for them both.1 Two facts in regard to this passage are worth emphasizing: first, that it is actual contemporary evidence; second, that Ti. Gracchus's own speeches on the presentation of his bill in 133 show that to his mind Etruria was typical of all rural Italy. Ti. Gracchus as tribune made a speech 2 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...of many ills for them both.1 Two facts in regard to this passage are worth emphasizing: first, that it is actual contemporary evidence; second, that Ti. Gracchus's own speeches on the presentation of his bill in 133 show that to his mind Etruria was typical of all rural Italy. Ti. Gracchus as tribune made a speech 2 about the Italian race: though they were the finest material for soldiers and akin (to themselves) they were little by little declining into poverty and small numbers (bXiyavSpla) and there was no hope of the situation's righting itself. After inveighing against the slave population, necessarily debarred from military service and never faithful to its masters, he brought forward as a warning the recent rebellion in Sicily; because the slaves had increased as a result of the agricultural situation, the war waged against them by the Romans was no light matter and ended only after a long period and varying successes and defeats..... The end which Gracchus had in mind was not the relief of poverty, but the increase of population (evavSpia).3 Appian again emphasizes the object of the measure in his account of the government's failure to abide by the provisions of the agrarian law of C. Gracchus after the latter's death. This (the renting of the public land) was of some help to the poor because of the distribution of money, 1 Plut. T. Gr. 8. 1 Appian, B. C. I, 9. See B. C. I, 10 for a repetition of the same accusations put into the mouths of the poorer classes. 8 Appian, B. C. I, 11. 4 Appian, B. C. I, 27. but of no help toward increasing the population (- irovrrdiav).... The people lost everything (all provisions of the law) completely. As a result there was a further decrease at once of citizens and soldiers. Such striking statements of the los...
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