The History of the Roman Republic Author:Theodor Mommsen General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons Subjects: Rome History / Ancient / Rome History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When y... more »ou buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Trade and Agriculture. -- Rei Rnsticae Scriptores (vid. pp. xvii., xviii.). Plin. N. H. xvii., xviii. Uaurij. -- In Verr. iii. 70. Hor. Sat. I. Ģi. 14. Social features. -- Cic. ad. Att. ii. 19; xi. 23; xii. 35, 36; ad. Fam. viii. 7; pro Mnr. 18; de Orat. 40, 56; de Legg. ii. 24; de Off. ii. 16; Seneca de Brev. Vit. 20; Liv. Epit. 48. Gell. i. 6; ii. 24 and passim. Macrob. ii. 13 and passim. Flat. Sulla 35. Cio. 41. Val. Max. iii. 10, 15; ix. 1, and passim. Suet. Aug. 89. Nero, 2. Hin. N. H. x. 50, s. 71; xxxvi. 3; viii. 16, s. 20; xvii. 1. Aelian. Hist. Anim. viii. 4. Cic. speeches and letters passim, esp. pro Cluent. pro Gael. CHAPTER XXVIII. MARCUS LEPIDUS AND SERTORIUS. Classes which composed the Opposition, and characters of its leading men, after the death of Sulla. -- Insurrection of Lepidus (78-77 B. c.) . Sertorian war (80-72 B. c.). Sulla's arrangements had been acquiesced in by all the chief classes in the state, and on his death his constitution had nothing to fear from any organized body of opponents. There was, however, a large but heterogeneous body of malcontents opposed to the present condition of things for widely different reasons. 1. There were the jurists -- men of strict legal training, who detested Sulla's arbitrary mode of procedure, and who even during his life had ventured to disregard several of his laws; for instance, those depriving certain Italian communities of the franchise. 2. There was the liberal minority in the senate, wh...« less