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Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ith a grant from the treasury. In imitation of the capital, the provincial cities expendedenormous sums for their embellishment. Whence did they derivethem? The prince had recently opened to them a new and prolific Lanciaiii, .y«//« ciftù di Porto. ^ Letronne, Imer. gr. et rom. dÈffijpte, i. 105 and 420. At Djebel-Fateereli or MonxClaudianus, in tlie Porphyritic chain, several inscriptions prove that Trajan prave a greatimpulse to the work of these quarries. (C. 1. L., vol. iii. Nos. 24, 25, and Letronne, Imcr.dEgypte, 39-42.) At Djebel-Fateereh, at a distance of ten leag-ues from the Red Sea, monolithsliave been found lying on the ground, whioli were oO-feet long by 26i feet in cii-cumference. ^ C. I. L., vol. ii. Nos. 751), 762. That of Chaves (.\quîe Flavife), on tlie Tamago inGalicia. still subsists also. ( C. I. L., vol. ii. No. 2,478.^ There is no bridge in England as highas that of Alcantara, and only one in Fra)ice, that of Saint Sauveur, which surpasses it by afew vards.
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NERVA AXD TRAJAN, 96 TO 117 A.D. 803 source of revenue. The old jurisprudence, considering the towns,like the guilds or associations, as undefined persons, did notdeem them capable of receiving a legacy,^ at least without a specialauthorization.^ Nerva recognized in them this capability, but inquite vague terms, it appears, since the prudent Pliny did not dareto use this rescript.^ The Apronian senatus-consultum, passedunder Trajan, permits cities to receive inheritances by way oftrusteeship, a last inconvenience which will disappear underHadrian.^ Then the city will become a civil person, as our Frenchcommune is, but between the two epochs a great difference exists.Municipal patriotism was in those times active in a far differentway than now, and there were no religious congregations to attract(and secure) the liberality of the dying ; so that donations, whichhave now become authorized, become very abundant and go directlyto the city to serve its wants and even its pleasures.^ Often,

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