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Description: labour and of
trade--the separate cries of discontent that find their unison in a protest
against the monopoly of office and the narrow or selfish rule of a dominant
class, and thus gain a significance as much political as social--all these
plaints had filled the air at the time when Caius Licinius near the middle of
the fourth century, and Appius Claudius at its close, evolved their projects of
reform.
The cycle of a
nation's history can indeed never be broken as long as the character of the
nation remains the same. And the average Roman of the middle of the second
century before our era was in all essential particulars the Roman of the times
of Appius and of Licinius, or even of the epoch when the ten commissioners had
published the Tables which were to stamp its perpetual character on Roman law.
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A History of Rome, vol 1