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32. II. IV. Etruria at Peace and on the Decline, II. V. Campanian Hellenism 33. The conjecture that Novius Flautius, the artist who worked at this casket for Dindia Macolnia, in Rome, may have been a Campanian, is refuted by the old Praenestine tomb-stones recently discovered, on which, among other Macolnii and Plautii, there occurs also a Lucius Magulnius, son of Haulms (L. Magolnio Pla. f.). 34. I. XIII. Etrusco-Attic, and Latino-Sicilian Commerce, II. II. Rising Power of the Capitalists 35. II. III. The Burgess Body 36. II. III. The Burgess Body 37. II. III. Laws Imposing Taxes 38. II. III. The Burgess Body 39. II. VII. Construction of New Fortresses and Roads 40. We have already mentioned the censorial stigma attached to Publius Cornelius Rufinus (consul 464, 477) for his silver plate.(II. VIII. Police) The strange statement of Fabius (in Strabo, v. p. 228) that the Romans first became given to luxury (--aisthesthae tou plouton--) after the conquest of the Sabines, is evidently only a historical version of the same matter; for the conquest of the Sabines falls in the first consulate of Rufinus. 41. II. V. Colonizations in the Land of the Volsci 42. II. VI. Last Campaigns in Samnium 43. II. VIII. Inland Intercourse in Italy 44. I. III. Localities of the Oldest Cantons 45. I. II. Iapygians 46. II. V. Campanian Hellenism 47. II. VIII. Transmarine Commerce 48. II. VII. The Full Roman Franchise 49. II. VI. Battle of Sentinum 50. II. III. The Burgess-Body 51. II. VIII. Impulse Given to It 52. II. III. New Opposition 53. II. VII. Attempts at Peace CHAPTER IX Art and Science The Roman National Festival-- The Roman Stage The growth of art, and of poetic art especially, in antiquity was intimately associated with the development of national festivals. The thanksgiving-festival of the Roman community, which had been already organized in the previous period essentially under Greek influence and in the first instance as an extraordinary festival, --the -ludi maximi- or -Romani-,(1) --acquired during the present epoch a longer duration and greater variety in the amusements. Originally limited to one day, the festival was prolonged by an additional day after the happy termination of each of the three great revolutions of 245, 260, and 387, and thus at the close of this period it had already a duration of four days.(2) A still more impor
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