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Title: History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894 Ripley, M. M Clarke, W. J Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919
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Publisher: Boston : C. F. Jewett
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a rhetorician ; and Martial was able to boastthat his verses, written for the Roman nobles, were read even inthat island which was the boundary of the habitable world.3 Some patriots indeed had sought liberty and scope for theirresentment in the highlands of the Picts, whence they will descend 1 Strabo, iv. 200. Britain, till Severus time, formed but one province, governed by aconsular (Tac, Agr. 13), who had under him a procurator, proc. Aug. prov. Brit. (Orelli.No. 22-2). 2 (The numerous and splendid Roman remains found at York show how luxurious andrefined w;is this great military post in the far north of England. The museum at York in thisrespect is truly astonishing. — Ed.) 3 Gallia causidicos docv.it facunda Brilannos,De conducendo loquitur jam rhetore Thule. Juvenal, Sat. xv. 111-112.Cf. Martial, Epigr. xi. 111. Yet in the time of Constantine a Gallic orator said: . . .Latine loqui Romania ingeneratum est nobis elaboration (Pan. Vetera, ix. 1 Cf. Dieffcnhach,Ccltica, ii. 84).
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^ ^^^ TILE PROVINCES. L25 to make this servile civilization retreat in its turn. But the massof the nation, except the brave tribe of the Brigantes, joyfullyentered upon this new life, and allowed the best of their sons togo and serve afar off in the Roman armies. Thus Britons were ingarrison in Pannonia, while Germans came into Britain, in thesame way that the Batavi were sent into Illyricum and theSpaniards to the Rhine. Gaul had more quickly adopted Roman civilization and hadmade more advance in it. She had received its rays from closerrange, especially in that zone of French territory whose shores arewashed by the sea and warmed by the sun of Italy. The im-perial government, of which Gaul, from its geographical position,formed the most important province, had studied to gain the heartof its inhabitants. In Narbonensis were seven colonies, twenty-nine Latin cities, two allied peoples; in Gallia Comata, ten freepeoples, eight colonies, four federated cities, a number of Latincities,

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