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The history of Rome. Book IVHeaded by all the magistrates and the whole senate, by the priests and priestesses in their official robes and the band of noble youths in equestrian armour, the procession arrived at the great market-place; at this spot, filled by his achievements and almost by the sound as yet of his dreaded words, the funeral oration was delivered over the deceased; and thence the bier was borne on the shoulders of senators to the Campus Martius, where the funeral pile was erected. While the flames were blazing, the equites and the soldiers held their race of honour round the corpse; the ashes of the regent were deposited in the Campus Martius beside the tombs of the old kings, and the Roman women mourned him for a year. Chapter XI The Commonwealth and Its Economy External and Internal Bankruptcy of the Roman State We have traversed a period of ninety years - forty years of profound peace, fifty of an almost constant revolution. It is the most inglorious epoch known in Roman history. It is true that the Alps were crossed both in an easterly and westerly direction[1], and the Roman arms reached in the Spanish peninsula as far as the Atlantic Ocean[2] and in the Macedono-Grecian peninsula as far as the Danube[3]; but the laurels thus gained were as cheap as they were barren ...» |
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