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Roman History, The Early Empire - From The Assassination Of Julius Caesar To That Of Domitian (1883) (Paperback)
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Roman History, The Early Empire - From The Assassination Of Julius Caesar To That Of Domitian (1883) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER I. AUGUSTUS: B.C. 31?A.D. 14. The victory of Actium had
made Octavianus the undisputed master of the Roman world. One by
one rivals and obstacles had been swept away, and the The remark-
., L . . able change patient schemer had now mounted to the top-
anusCafter he most round of the ladder of ambition. Dur- gained
abso- ing the troublous years of the long struggle for m, P, n, i
p0wer his public life had been one course of selfish aims,
unscrupulous acts, and makeshift policy; he had yet to prove that
there was anything of real and abiding greatness in his schemes to
raise him from the ranks of mere political adventurers. But from
this time we may trace a seeming change of character, which is the
more remarkable because it is so hard to parallel. It was no change
of measures only, such as often comes with new conditions, such as
that not a mere ' change of which made the founder of the dynasty
90 lcy reverse much of the policy of earlier years. For,
spendthrift and prodigal as Julius had been before, he used his
power to curtail extravagance, sent police agents to the markets,
and even to the houses of the wealthy, to put down luxury by force;
the leader of the popular party forbade the growth of guilds and
social clubs like those which had often carried the elections in
his favour; the favourite of the populace was anxious to check the
spread of pauperism by sterner measures; the revolutionary general
whose tent had been the refuge of the men of tarnished name and
ruined fortunes baffled all their hopes of plunder, by passing
stringent measures to restore credit and to curb official greed.
Octavianus also in like case resorted to like policy. One of his
firstcares was to repeal the unconstitutional acts of his earlier
Jife, and so to close the pe...
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