CHAPTER XIV. THE EMPIRE: THE PUBLIC HOPE. THE last century of the Republic had shown what was to become of Rome when she had no one to fear. With Carthage still a menace across the sea, with Macedonia on her northeast border unsubdued, Rome's rich and poor, Rome's noble few and vulgar crowd, had need to keep from civil strife. After the conclusion of the Punic and Mace- S't t~he donian wars, Roman political self-control 1 ua 100. passed away with portentous rapidity. In the tumults resulting in the deaths of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, Rome first tasted civil blood. Soon came the Cimbri peril, making a temporary party truce. Then civil broils broke out again, hardly to be stifled by the pressure of the Italian revolt. Rome's Italian subjects were not pacified when Sulla marched on Rome and Marius fled. And after that came bloody civil war. While Sulla was in the East, fighting Mithridates, Marius and the popular party slaughtered their foes at Rome. Then came t
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER XIV; PAOK; THE EMPIRE: THE PUBLIC HOPE; The Situation; Octavius I; The Policy of Augustus 5; Looking to the Past: Its Rustic Virtue; The Georgics 7; Rome's Fortitude: Obeying Divine Destiny 10; The LEneid: Power and Sadness of Obedience II; The Gods Founded Rome 15; As the Past Declares, so let its Virtues Guard the Future 17; Rome's Imperial Charge 18; JEneid VI 19; Religious and Moral Betterment; The Carmen Sreculare 22; The High Hope Looking to the Emperor; The Imperial Apotheosis; 24; The Empire's Dignity 28; The Hellenic East, the Latin West 29; CHAPTER XV; THE EMPIRE: THE SPIRITUAL CHANGE; From Homer to VirGil: Homeric and Virg1Jian Pathos 32; Virgil's Tenderness towards All of Life 40; Horace; The Pathos of Epicureanism 41; From the Garden to the Porch; Horace Preaches Virtue; Look; Within 46; Persius and Juven
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER XIV; PAOK; THE EMPIRE: THE PUBLIC HOPE; The Situation; Octavius I; The Policy of Augustus 5; Looking to the Past: Its Rustic Virtue; The Georgics 7; Rome's Fortitude: Obeying Divine Destiny 10; The LEneid: Power and Sadness of Obedience II; The Gods Founded Rome 15; As the Past Declares, so let its Virtues Guard the Future 17; Rome's Imperial Charge 18; JEneid VI 19; Religious and Moral Betterment; The Carmen Sreculare 22; The High Hope Looking to the Emperor; The Imperial Apotheosis; 24; The Empire's Dignity 28; The Hellenic East, the Latin West 29; CHAPTER XV; THE EMPIRE: THE SPIRITUAL CHANGE; From Homer to VirGil: Homeric and Virg1Jian Pathos 32; Virgil's Tenderness towards All of Life 40; Horace; The Pathos of Epicureanism 41; From the Garden to the Porch; Horace Preaches Virtue; Look; Within 46; Persius and Juven
