A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca
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— (Dionysius is probably wrong in assuming that all plebeians became clients.) (We infer that the clients had a right to vote.) The senate and the assembly Ancient World, 332. (The comitia curiata.) The liberality of Rome toward strangers. Dionysius ii. 16. 2>i^ Rome Under the Kings patron the noble whom he wished. The patrons were to explain the laws to their cHents, who were ignorant of such matters, and to watch over their business affairs as a father does for his children, to sue for them when they were unjustly treated, and to defend them when sued. The clients were to contribute to the dowry of their patron's daughters, to furnish the ransom in case the patron or his son should be taken captive, to pay their lord's fines, and to bear part of the expenses of the offices he held, that he might perform his public duties with becoming dignity. It was impious for patron and chent to accuse each other or to testify or vote against each other. After making these arrangements, Romulus resolved to appoint councillors who were to help him manage the government. For this purpose he selected a hundred men from the patricians, and called this council the senate. He made also an assembly of commons, to which he granted three powers,—the election of magistrates, the ratification of laws, and the decision of questions of war and peace. The resolutions of the assembly, however, had no force unless the senate approved them. The most effective of all the arrangements of Romulus the one which did most not only to maintain the freedom of Rome, but also to win for her the supremacy over other states—was the law which bade the Romans not to massacre or enslave conquered peoples or to lay waste their land, but to settle part of the conquered territory with Roman citizens, to found colonies in some conquered towns, and to give others the Roman citizenship. The kings who followed him, and still later the annual magistrates (consuls), carried out his Hberal policy to such an extent that in time the Roman nation came to excel all others in population.
Institutions of Romulus 337 Roman colo- Romulus sent a colony of three hundred men into each , , r 1 nies admis- I 1 ; . • sion of eity, to whom these gave a third part of their lands to be divided among them by lot; and these Casninenses and citizenship. Anteranates, who desired to remove to Rome, he conveyed Dionysius ii. thither together with their wives and children, they re- ^^ taining the possession of their lands, and bringing with them all their effects. These, who were not less than three thousand, the king immediately incorporated with the tribes and the curiae: so that the Romans had then for the first time six thousand foot in all upon the register. Thus Ctenina and Antemna, no inconsiderable cities . , . after this war became Roman colonies. The care of religion he intrusted to many persons. In Religion. no other newly built city could be found so many priests and attendants of the gods. . . . Each curia elected two men above fifty years of age, of noble birth, of good character and sufficient wealth, and of sound body, to act as priests for the remainder of their hves, exempt from military and political duties. And as it was necessary that the women and the children should have some part in performing religious rites, Romulus enacted that the wives of priests should assist their husbands in religious ser\'ices, and that the women and children should attend to those ceremonies which could not lawfully be performed by men. Romulus gave the father absolute, lifelong power over the son, including the right to scourge him, to bind him and compel him thus to toil in the fields, or to put him to death, even if the son chanced to be engaged in public affairs, ^6. even if he were occupying high offices or were being commended for his public liberality. According to this law, illustrious men, while delivering from the rostra harangues against the senate but in favor of the people, men who for this reason were highly popular, have been dragged from Dionysius ii. 21, The power father, Dionysius ii.
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—<br />
(Dionysius<br />
is probably<br />
wrong in assuming<br />
that<br />
all plebeians<br />
became<br />
clients.)<br />
(We infer<br />
that the<br />
clients had<br />
a right to<br />
vote.)<br />
<strong>The</strong> senate<br />
and the<br />
assembly<br />
Ancient<br />
World, 332.<br />
(<strong>The</strong> comitia<br />
curiata.)<br />
<strong>The</strong> liberality<br />
<strong>of</strong> Rome<br />
toward<br />
strangers.<br />
Dionysius ii.<br />
16.<br />
2>i^<br />
Rome Under the Kings<br />
patron the noble whom he wished.<br />
<strong>The</strong> patrons were to<br />
explain the laws to their cHents, who were ignorant <strong>of</strong> such<br />
matters, and to watch over their business affairs as a father<br />
does for his children, to sue for them when they were unjustly<br />
treated, and to defend them when sued.<br />
<strong>The</strong> clients<br />
were to contribute to the dowry <strong>of</strong> their patron's daughters,<br />
to furnish the ransom in case the patron or his son should<br />
be taken captive, to pay their lord's fines, and to bear<br />
part <strong>of</strong> the expenses <strong>of</strong> the <strong>of</strong>fices he held, that he might<br />
perform his public duties with becoming dignity. It was<br />
impious for patron and chent to accuse each other or to<br />
testify or vote against each other.<br />
After making these arrangements, Romulus resolved to<br />
appoint councillors who were to help him manage the government.<br />
<strong>For</strong> this purpose he selected a hundred men from<br />
the patricians, and called this council the senate. He<br />
made also an assembly <strong>of</strong> commons, to which he granted<br />
three powers,—the election <strong>of</strong> magistrates, the ratification<br />
<strong>of</strong> laws, and the decision <strong>of</strong> questions <strong>of</strong> war and peace.<br />
<strong>The</strong> resolutions <strong>of</strong> the assembly, however, had no force<br />
unless the senate approved them.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most effective <strong>of</strong> all the arrangements <strong>of</strong> Romulus<br />
the one which did most not only to maintain the freedom<br />
<strong>of</strong> Rome, but also to win for her the supremacy over other<br />
states—was the law which bade the Romans not to massacre<br />
or enslave conquered peoples or to lay waste their<br />
land, but to settle part <strong>of</strong> the conquered territory with<br />
Roman citizens, to found colonies in some conquered<br />
towns, and to give others the Roman citizenship. <strong>The</strong><br />
kings who followed him, and still later the annual magistrates<br />
(consuls), carried out his Hberal policy to such an<br />
extent that in time the Roman nation came to excel all<br />
others in population.
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