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204 BC (search for this): book 34, chapter 4
re was no extravagance to be restrained. As it is necessary that diseases be known before their cures, so passions are born before the laws which keep them within bounds. What provoked the Licinian lawOne clause of the famous law of 367 B.C. limited to five hundred iugera the amount of public land that any individual might hold (VI. xxxv. 5). about the five hundred iugera except the uncontrolled desire of joining field to field? What brought about the Cincian lawBy this law of 204 B.C. advocates were forbidden to charge fees for their services or to circumvent the law by accepting presents from their clients. Among the possible purposes was the desire to relieve the commons of financial and other obligations to the aristocracy. except that the plebeians had already begun to be vassals and tributaries to the senate? And so it is not strange that no Oppian or any other law was needed to limit female extravagance at the time when they spurned gifts of gold and purple volunta
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and women as well.See Periocha XIII. Not yet had the Oppian law been passed to curb female extravagance, yet not one woman took his gifts. What do you think was the reason? The same thing which caused our ancestors to pass no law on the subject: there was no extravagance to be restrained. As it is necessary that diseases be known before their cures, so passions are born before the laws which keep them within bounds. What provoked the Licinian lawOne clause of the famous law of 367 B.C. limited to five hundred iugera the amount of public land that any individual might hold (VI. xxxv. 5). about the five hundred iugera except the uncontrolled desire of joining field to field? What brought about the Cincian lawBy this law of 204 B.C. advocates were forbidden to charge fees for their services or to circumvent the law by accepting presents from their clients. Among the possible purposes was the desire to relieve the commons of financial and other obligations to the arist
212 BC (search for this): book 34, chapter 4
en the destruction of every great empire. The better and the happier becomes the fortune of our commonwealth day by day and the greater the empire grows —and already we have crossed into Greece and Asia, places filled with all the allurements of vice, and we are handling the treasures of kings —the more I fear that these things will capture us rather than we them. Tokens of danger, believe me, were those statuesMarcellus transferred to Rome works of art captured in Syracuse in 212 B.C. and thereby began a revolution in Roman taste (XXV. xl. 2). The pun on the military meaning of infesta signa can be more easily noted than reproduced. which were brought to this city from Syracuse. Altogether too many people do I hear praising the baublesThe ornamenta brought from Corinth were usually of bronze (hence bronze dishes and small statuary were commonly called Corinthia in Rome) and from Athens painted vases. of Corinth and Athens and laughing at the fictile antefixesThe antefixa