FOOTNOTES:
[126] In the smallest provinces the title of the governor was
_propraetor_.
[127] In the oriental countries Rome left certain little kings (like
King Herod in Judaea), but they paid tribute and obeyed the governor.
[128] This estimate of the character of Scaurus is too favorable.--ED.
[129] Cicero speaks of the temples which were raised to him by the
people of Cilicia, of which county he was governor.
[130] Every important town had its market for slaves as for cattle and
horses. The slave to be sold was exhibited on a platform with a label
about his neck indicating his age, his better qualities and his defects.
[131] In the Casina of Plautus.
[132] Athenaeus, who makes this statement, is probably guilty of
exaggeration.--ED.
CHAPTER XXII
TRANSFORMATION OF LIFE IN ROME
=Greek and Oriental Influence.=--Conquest gave the Romans a clearer
view of the Greeks and Orientals. Thousands of foreigners brought to
Rome as slaves, or coming thither to make their fortune, established
themselves in the city as physicians, professors, diviners, or actors.
Generals, officers and soldiers lived in the midst of Asia, and thus
the Romans came to know the customs and the new beliefs and gradually
adopted them.
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