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p. Colum. i. 1, 5), that the culture of the vine and olive was constantly moving farther to the north.--The decree of the senate as to the translation of the treatise of Mago (IV. II. The Italian Farmers) belongs also to this class of measures. 27. IV. II. Slavery and Its Consequences 28. IV. VIII. Thrace and Macedonia Occupied by the Pontic Armies. 29. IV. I. Destruction of Carthage, IV. I. Destruction of Corinth 30. IV. V. The Advance of the Romans Checked by the Policy of the Restoration 31. IV. IV. The Provinces 32. IV. VII. Economic Crisis 33. IV. VII. The Sulpician Laws 34. IV. VII. Legislation of Sulla 35. IV. IX. Government of Cinna 36. IV. VIII. Orders Issued from Ephesus for A General Massacre 37. IV. VIII. Thrace and Macedonia Occupied by the Pontic Armies. 38. IV. VI. Roman Intervention 39. III. XII. Roman Wealth 40. IV. V. Taurisci 41. III. VI. Pressure of the War 42. II. VIII. Silver Standard of Value 43. III. VI. Pressure of the War 44. III. I. Comparison between Carthage and Rome 45. IV. X. Proscription-Lists 46. III. III. Autonomy, III. VII. the State of Culture in Spain, III. XII. Coins and Moneys 47. III. XII. Coins and Moneys 48. III. XIII. Increase of Amusements 49. In the house, which Sulla inhabited when a young man, he paid for the ground-floor a rent of 3000 sesterces, and the tenant of the upper story a rent of 2000 sesterces (Plutarch, Sull. 1); which, capitalized at two-thirds of the usual interest on capital, yields nearly the above amount. This was a cheap dwelling. That a rent of 6000 sesterces (60 pounds) in the capital is called a high one in the case of the year 629 (Vell. ii. 10) must have been due to special circumstances. 50. III. I. Comparison between Carthage and Rome 51. IV. II. Tribunate of Gracchus 52. "If we could, citizens"--he said in his speech--"we should indeed all keep clear of this burden. But, as nature has so arranged it that we cannot either live comfortably with wives or live at all without them, it is proper to have regard rather to the permanent weal than to our own brief comfort." Chapter XII 1. IV. XI. Money-Dealing and Commerce 2. IV. X. The Roman Municipal System 3. IV. I. The Subjects 4. IV. I. The Callaeci Conquered 5. IV. I. The New Organization of Spain 6. IV. VII. Second Year of the War 7. The statement that no "Greek games" were exhibit
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