BOOK II. 



A FAR-REACHING DISORDER. 



Rome, in the days of Servius, presented to view a numerous body 

 of small proprietors, cultivating the land they owned. Later, we 

 find palaces owned by Scipios and Pompeys — the land having become 

 consolidated, and the free proprietors having disappeared. Fixed 

 property declined in value, while slaves increased in number, and 

 bankers in wealth and power. — Henry C. Carey, 



