The Roman History ... to the Battle of Actium, by Mr. Rollin . Transl (1768)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Rome, to adorn the public Forum, having confined A-R-69 th wall on which it was done in wooden boxes. This 60. " painting was excellent, and drawed admiration; but what furprized the moft, was, that it could be tranf- ported fafe and entire. SECT. III. The factious behaviour of Ctefar in Mi Confulfoip. cuftoms ejlabli/hed or renewed by him, according to Suetonius. The Agrarian laws prefented to the Senate by Ctefar. Tbe Senators Jilent. Tbe Jteadinefi of Cato. Cafar fends Cato to prifon, afterwards releafes him. Declares in Senate that be will go and addrefs bimfelf to tbe People. He tries in vain to gain over bis Col- legue. Pempty and Cra/us approve of tbe law publickly. "The law paffis maugre the generous oppofition of Bibu- lus and Cato. Bibulus is forced to Jhut bimfelf tip in bis own boufe for eight months entirely. Ctefar ails as if be was fole Conful. An oath added by Ctefar to his law. Cato refufes at frjt to take this oath; and afterwards fubmits to it. The uncertainty of Cicero concerning the law of Ctefar. In pleading for his Collegue Anthony', be complains of the prefent ftate of affairs -, in confequence of which Ctefar brings Clodius into the order of tbe People. The affair and condemnation of Anthony. The territory of Capua dijlribtited by virtue cf Ctefar's law. Capua made a colony. Ctefar grants tbe Knights who farmed tbe public revenue in Afta the abatement they required. He gets tbe atts of Pompey's General/hip confirmed, and caufes' the province of AJJyria and Gaul to be given to bimfelf. A bold faying cf Con- fidius to Ctefar. Cafar caufes the Kings Aricvijlus and Ptolemy Auletes to be acknowledged friends and allies to tbe Commonwealth, The avidity of Ctefar for money. Cefar marries his daughter to Pompey. He marries Calphurnia bimfdf. Pifo and Gab...

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