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Title: Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord), d. 1913
Subjects: Rome -- History Republic, 510-30 B.C
Publisher: London, G. Harrap
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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ites, and Gauls, has extendedher authority over the greater part of Italy. As the circle ofdominion widens there is a corresponding expansion in thecharacter and policy of the conquering people. The Romanshave become conscious of their destiny, and in addressing theother races of Italy they begin to assume a tone of dignity andlordship. The growth of their political genius keeps pacewith the advance of material power, so that every fresh needis answered by a new resource, and a vast and complicatedmachinery is created to keep pace with the manifold demandsof a rising empire. That the Romans should have supportedthis enormous strain, pressing on them simultaneously fromwithin and from without, and that every addition to theirburden should have brought an access of strength, is a singularproof of their wonderful energy, hardihood, and elasticity. Rebuilding of the City We take up our story from the moment when, as the legendruns, Camillus had cancelled the compact with Brennus, or, to88
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LATIN AND SAMNITE WARS speak the bald truth, when the Gauls had gone off with theiiload of gold, leaving the Romans at liberty to resume possessionof their ruined city. It was a sad and dispirited host thatcame streaming back from various places of refuge, to bivouacamong the blackened heaps which had once been the homesof Roman families and the temples of Roman gods. Neverhad the fortunes of the Republic sunk to so low an ebb, and forthe great mass of the struggling plebeians, who had lost theirall in the late invasion, the prospect seemed hopeless indeed.In this state of the public feeling the tribunes found readyhearers when they came forward with the proposal, alreadymooted five years before, that the more needy among thecitizens should migrate to Veii, where there were houses andlands only waiting for occupation. If this fatal suggestionhad been carried out the whole subsequent course of historymight have been altered ; but happily it was overruled bythe firmness of the patrician

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