In War 



had been the patient strength and 

 courage, capacity for enduring hard- 

 ships, instinctive submission to military 

 discipline, of the population which lined 

 the ranges of the Apennines." 



Bury states that an " effect of the 

 wars was that the ranks of the small 

 farmers were decimated, while the num- 

 ber of slaves who did not serve in the 

 army multiplied." Thus " Vir gave 

 place to Homo" real men to mere 

 human beings. 



With the failure of men grew the 

 strength of the mob, and of the em- 

 peror, its exponent. " The little fin- 

 ger of Constantine was stronger than 

 the loins of Augustus." At the end 

 " the barbarians settled and peopled the 

 Roman Empire rather than conquered 

 it." "The Roman world would not 

 have yielded to the barbaric, were it not 

 decidedly inferior in force." Through 

 the weakness of men the emperor as- 



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