The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on HistoryAdams, Brooks
Philosophy
The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History
Adams, Brooks
Civilization -- History; Degeneration; History -- Philosophy
[9] _Ibid._, ii. 603.
[10] _History of Rome_, Niebuhr, Hare’s trans., i. 574.
[11] Preface to _Virginia_.
[12] _History of Rome_, Mommsen, Dickson’s trans., i. 484.
[13] See _History of Rome_, Mommsen, Dickson’s trans., i.
298–9.
[14] See _History of Rome_, Niebuhr, Hare’s trans., iii. 22,
30.
[15] Preface to _Virginia_, Macaulay.
[16] _Histoire de l’Esclavage_, Wallon, ii. 38.
[17] Suet. _Aug._, ii. 41.
[18] Tacitus, _Ann._, ii. 48.
[19] _Ann._, vi. 39.
[20] _Ibid._, iv. 21.
[21] _Sat._, iii. 164.
[22] _L’Invasion Germanique_, Fustel de Coulanges, 146–157.
[23] Diod. xxxiv. 38. On the subject of the Sicilian slavery,
see _Histoire de l’Esclavage_, Wallon, ii. 300 _et seq._
[24] _Polybius_, ii. 15, Shuckburgh’s trans.
[25] _Provinces of the Roman Empire_, Mommsen, ii. 233.
[26] _Ibid._, ii. 239.
[27] _Deipnosophists_, v. 37.
[28] Martial, _Ep._, xii. 76.
[29] Vopiscus, _Aurelianus_, 35.
[30] _L’Invasion Germanique_, Fustel de Coulanges, 190.
[31] _Le Colonat Romain: Recherches sur quelques Problèmes
d’Histoire_, Fustel de Coulanges, 143.
[32] _Organisation Financière chez les Romains_, Marquardt, 65
_et seq._
[33] Tacitus, _Ann._, Murphy’s trans., iii. 53.
[34] _Nat. Hist._, xii. 18.
[35] Vopiscus, _Saturninus_, 8.
[36] _Provinces of the Roman Empire_, Mommsen, ii. 140.
[37] _Ann._, vi. 16, 17.
[38] See _Geschichte des Römischen Münzwesens_, Mommsen, 756.
[39] _Monnaies Byzantines_, Sabatier, i. 51, 52.
[40] _Monnaies Byzantines_, Sabatier, i. 50.
[41] _Geschichte des Römischen Münzwesens_, Mommsen, 837.
[42] _Monnaies Byzantines_, Sabatier, i. 51, 52.
[43] Pliny’s _Letters_, iii. 19.
[44] _Ibid._, ix. 37.
[45] _Digest_, xix. 2, 15, and xxxiii. 7, 20.
[46] _Letters_, x. 24. On this whole subject see _Le Colonat
Romain: Recherches sur quelques Problèmes d’Histoire_, Fustel
de Coulanges, ch. i.
[47] _Code of Justinian_, xi. 51, 1.
[48] _Le Colonat Romain_, Fustel de Coulanges, 21.
[49] _Organisation Financière chez les Romains_, Marquardt,
240; _Les Manieurs d’Argent à Rome_, Deloume, 377.
[50] See _Decline and Fall_, ch. xvii.
[51] In _C. Verrem_, IV. lxxxix.
[52] _Cicero’s Letters_, Ad Att. vi. 2; also Ad Att. v. 21, and
vi. 1.
[53] Diod. xxxvi. 3. See also _Histoire de l’Esclavage_,
Wallon, ii. 42, 44.
[54] _Satire_, viii. 89, 90.
[55] _Letters_, viii. 24.
[56] _Dio Cassius_, lxii. 2.
[57] _Nat. Hist._, xiv., _Proœmium_.
[58] _Decline and Fall_, ch. xvii.
[59] _Morals, Trans. of_ 1718, 4, 11.
[60] _Histoire de l’Esclavage_, iii. 268.
[61] _Decline and Fall_, ch. xii.
[62] _L’Invasion Germanique_, 200, 204, 223.
[63] _Dio Cassius_, lvi. 7.
[64] _Dio Cassius_, lvi. 5–8.
[65] _Ann._, iii. 25.
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