The History of Rome, Volume 4

Wilhelm Ihne

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1882 - Rome

Contents

• General character of Roman: 8
• RELIGION: 9
• Restrictions and checks on Roman magistrates: 10
• History of the comitia of centuries: 11
• The change probably a gradual one: 17
• Executive power of the comitia of tribes: 24
• The Comitia of Centuries: 28
• Political importance of the comitia of tribes: 30
• The urban and the rural tribes: 36
• CHAPTER II: 43
• Political services of the senate: 45
• Conflict between these two assemblies: 52
• The senate and the knights 58 L: 58
• The Roman senate the chief cause of Roman greatness: 64
• Authority of the president: 70
• Position of magistrates in a republic: 76
• 6: 78
• 9: 92
• Importance of the consular office: 100
• Oratory of Cato: 104
• Relative importance of these branches: 106
• Officers of the legions: 110
• CHAPTER V: 117
• Proceedings in iudicio: 123
• Gradual limitation of popular jurisdiction: 131
• Fines: 137
• POLICE: 141
• Modern theories of revenue and expenditure: 149
• The farming of the revenue: 156
• The care of the temples: 162
• Rome and Italy: 178
• Character of the Roman colonies: 184
• Decay of Italian agriculture: 188
• Discontent of the allies: 194
• Provincial trade: 200
• Sardinia and Corsica: 206
• Degrees of freedom left to the allies: 212
• Wealth of the highest Roman families: 218
• Objects aimed at by the censors: 236
• Arbitrary action of the censors: 246
• Original meaning of the word religion: 252
• Maintenance of old forms and rules: 258
• The Pontifices: 264
• Foreign rites and superstitions: 271
• Jealousy of foreign gods: 277
• CULTURE ART SCIENCE: 284
• Gladiatorial spectacles: 291
• CHAPTER XV: 299
• Aggrandisement of the great Roman houses: 306
• Political training of the Roman nobles: 313
• Political power of the Scipios: 322
• Personal character of Cato: 336
• CHAPTER I: 345
• Change in the character of the Roman nobility: 351
• Occupation of waste lands: 364
• Laws restricting the purchase of land: 371
• Revival of obsolete laws: 388
• His position and policy: 394
• Passive resistance of the senate: 400
• Action of the senate after the death of Gracchus: 407
• Disinterested patriotism of the Gracchi: 408
• New commission for carrying out the Sempronian law: 413
• Question of the extension of the Roman franchise to: 419
• The supply of slaves: 425
• CHAPTER V: 431
• Death of Blossius of Cumæ: 437
• Energy and resolution of C Gracchus: 440
• Reenactment of the agrarian law of Ti Gracchus: 454
• The selection of the equestrian order as judges a fatal: 462
• Diminution of the power of the senate: 463
• The military law of C Gracchus: 469
• Tumult on the death of Antillius: 475

Bibliographic information

• Title: The History of Rome, Volume 4; The History of Rome, Wilhelm Ihne; The History of Rome. Vol. I [- V], Wilhelm Ihne
• Author: Wilhelm Ihne
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1882
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Apr 15, 2009