Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- EXTRACT FROM DR. MOMMSEN'S PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST THE PERIOD ANTERIOR TO THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST MIGRATIONS INTO ITALY
- CHAPTER III THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE LATINS
- CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME
- CHAPTER V THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION OF ROME
- CHAPTER VI THE NON-BURGESSES AND THE REFORMED CONSTITUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE HEGEMONY OF ROME IN LATIUM
- CHAPTER VIII THE UMBRO-SABELLIAN STOCK—BEGINNINGS OF THE SAMNITES
- CHAPTER IX THE ETRUSCANS
- CHAPTER X THE HELLENES IN ITALY.—MARITIME SUPREMACY OF THE TUSCANS AND CARTHAGINIANS
- CHAPTER XI LAW AND JUSTICE
- CHAPTER XII RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIII AGRICULTURE, TRADE, AND COMMERCE
- CHAPTER XIV MEASURING AND WRITING
- CHAPTER XV ART
- BOOK SECOND FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY IN ROME TO THE UNION OF ITALY
- APPENDIX: ON THE PATRICIAN CLAUDII
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
CHAPTER VI - THE NON-BURGESSES AND THE REFORMED CONSTITUTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- EXTRACT FROM DR. MOMMSEN'S PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST THE PERIOD ANTERIOR TO THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST MIGRATIONS INTO ITALY
- CHAPTER III THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE LATINS
- CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME
- CHAPTER V THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION OF ROME
- CHAPTER VI THE NON-BURGESSES AND THE REFORMED CONSTITUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE HEGEMONY OF ROME IN LATIUM
- CHAPTER VIII THE UMBRO-SABELLIAN STOCK—BEGINNINGS OF THE SAMNITES
- CHAPTER IX THE ETRUSCANS
- CHAPTER X THE HELLENES IN ITALY.—MARITIME SUPREMACY OF THE TUSCANS AND CARTHAGINIANS
- CHAPTER XI LAW AND JUSTICE
- CHAPTER XII RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIII AGRICULTURE, TRADE, AND COMMERCE
- CHAPTER XIV MEASURING AND WRITING
- CHAPTER XV ART
- BOOK SECOND FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY IN ROME TO THE UNION OF ITALY
- APPENDIX: ON THE PATRICIAN CLAUDII
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
Summary
Amalgamation of the Palatine and Quirinal cities.
The history of every nation, and Italian history especially, is a Synoikismos on a great scale. Rome, in the earliest form in which we have any knowledge of it, was already triune, and similar incorporations only ceased when the spirit of Roman vigour had wholly died away. Apart from that primitive process of amalgamation of the Ramnes, Tities, and Luceres, of which hardly anything beyond the bare fact is known, the earliest act of incorporation of this sort was that by which the Hill-burgesses became merged in the Palatine Eome. The organization of the two communities, when they were about to be amalgamated, may be conceived to have been substantially similar, and in solving the problem of union they would have to choose between the alternatives of retaining duplicate institutions or of abolishing one set of these and extending the other to the whole united community. They adopted the former course in the case of all sanctuaries and priesthoods. Thenceforth the Roman community had its two guilds of Salii and two of Luperci, and as it had two forms of Mars, it had also two priests for that divinity; the Palatine priest, who afterwards usually took the designation of priest of Mars, and the Oolline, who was termed priest of Quirinus. It is likely, although it can no longer be proved, that all the old Latin priesthoods of Eome, the Augurs, Pontiffs, Vestals, and Eetials, originated in the same way from the combined colleges of priests of the Palatine and Quirinal communities.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 87 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010