With unrivalled activity.. [he] concentrated the most varied and most complicated functions of government in his own person. He himself watched over the distribution of grain, selected the jurymen, founded the colonies.. regulated the highways and concluded building-contracts, led the discussions of the senate, settled the consular elections - in short; he accustomed the people to the fact that one man was the foremost in all things, and threw the lax and lame administration of the senatorial college into the shade by the vigour and dexterity of his personal rule.


Vol. 4, Translated by W.P. Dickson. - The History of Rome 1854-6

Theodor Mommsen Quotes

With unrivalled activity.. [he] concentrated the most varied and most complicated functions of government in his own person. He himself watched over...

With unrivalled activity.. [he] concentrated the most varied and most complicated functions of government in his own person. He himself watched over...

With unrivalled activity.. [he] concentrated the most varied and most complicated functions of government in his own person. He himself watched over...

With unrivalled activity.. [he] concentrated the most varied and most complicated functions of government in his own person. He himself watched over...