Chapter I: Front Matter

Our Debt to Greece and Rome

EDITORS

GEORGE DEPUE HADZSITS, PH.D.
_University of Pennsylvania_

DAVID MOORE ROBINSON, PH.D., LL.D.
_The Johns Hopkins University_

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE “OUR DEBT TO GREECE AND ROME FUND,” WHOSE GENEROSITY HAS MADE POSSIBLE THE LIBRARY

Our Debt to Greece and Rome

_Philadelphia_

DR. ASTLEY P. C. ASHHURST
JOHN C. BELL
HENRY H. BONNELL
JASPER YEATES BRINTON
JOHN CADWALADER
MISS CLARA COMEGYS
MISS MARY E. CONVERSE
ARTHUR G. DICKSON
WILLIAM M. ELKINS
WILLIAM P. GEST
JOHN GRIBBEL
SAMUEL F. HOUSTON
JOHN STORY JENKS
ALBA B. JOHNSON
MISS NINA LEA
GEORGE MCFADDEN
MRS. JOHN MARKOE
JULES E. MASTBAUM
J. VAUGHAN MERRICK
EFFINGHAM B. MORRIS
WILLIAM R. MURPHY
JOHN S. NEWBOLD
S. DAVIS PAGE (_memorial_)
OWEN J. ROBERTS
JOSEPH G. ROSENGARTEN
JOHN B. STETSON, JR.
DR. J. WILLIAM WHITE (_memorial_)

The Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Liberal Studies.

_Boston_

ORIC BATES (_memorial_)
FREDERICK P. FISH
WILLIAM AMORY GARDNER
JOSEPH CLARK HOPPIN

_Chicago_

HERBERT W. WOLFF

_Cincinnati_

CHARLES PHELPS TAFT

_Detroit_

JOHN W. ANDERSON
DEXTER M. FERRY, JR.

_New York_

JOHN JAY CHAPMAN
WILLARD V. KING
THOMAS W. LAMONT
ELIHU ROOT
MORTIMER L. SCHIFF
WILLIAM SLOANE

And one contributor, who has asked to have his name withheld:

_Maecenas atavis edite regibus, O et praesidium et dulce decus meum._

_Washington_

The Greek Embassy at Washington, for the Greek Government.

ROMAN POLITICS

BY
FRANK FROST ABBOTT

_Kennedy Professor of Latin Language and Literature_
_Princeton University_

MARSHALL JONES COMPANY

BOSTON · MASSACHUSETTS

COPYRIGHT · 1923 · BY MARSHALL JONES COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

Printed May, 1923

THE PLIMPTON PRESS · NORWOOD · MASSACHUSETTS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE FUND ii

I. THE ROMAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT

1. Pre-Augustan 3

2. Post-Augustan 31

II. ROMAN POLITICS AND MODERN POLITICS

1. Rome and the Church of Rome 47

2. The Individual and the State 51

3. On Constitutions 67

4. The Legislative and Executive Branches of Government 74

i. Resemblances between Ancient and Modern 74

ii. Differences between Ancient and Modern 80

5. The Judiciary 95

6. Conception of Citizenship 103

i. In Times of Peace 103

ii. In Times of War 106

7. Taxation and Finance 108

8. Imperialism 115

III. SOME POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS COMMON TO THE
ROMANS AND TO MODERN PEOPLES 138

1. The Color and the Labor Questions 139

2. Voting and Elections 140

3. The Political Boss 144

4. The Recall 147

5. Pensions, Bonuses, and Militarism 149

6. Cases of Paternalism 152

7. Growth of Cities 160

IV. SOME FINAL REFLECTIONS 164

NOTES 171

BIBLIOGRAPHY 175

ROMAN POLITICS