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	Foreign Trade	54
	Gold and Silver	55
	General Felicity	56
	Decline of Courage	56
	——— of Genius	57
	Degeneracy	58

CHAPTER III

Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines

A.D.		PAGE
	Idea of a Monarchy	59
	Situation of Augustus	59
	He reforms the Senate	60
	Resigns his usurped Power	60
	Is prevailed upon to resume it under the Title of Emperor or General	61
	Power of the Roman Generals	62
	Lieutenants of the Emperor	63
	Division of the Provinces between the Emperor and the Senate	63
	The former preserves his Military Commands, and Guards, in Rome itself	64
	Consular and Tribunitian powers	64
	Imperial Prerogatives	65
	The Magistrates	66
	The Senate	67
	General Idea of the Imperial System	68
	Court of the Emperors	68
	Deification	68
	Titles of Augustus and Cæsar	70
	Character and Policy of Augustus	70
	Image of Liberty for the People	71
	Attempts of the Senate after the Death of Caligula	71
	Image of Government for the Armies	72
	Their Obedience	72
	Designation of a Successor	73
	Of Tiberius	73
	Of Titus	73
	The Race of the Cæsars, and Flavian Family	74
96	Adoption and Character of Trajan	74
117	Of Hadrian	75
	Adoption of the elder and younger Verus	75
138-180	Adoption of the two Antonines	76
	Character and Reign of Pius	76
	————————— of Marcus	77
	Happiness of the Romans	78
	Its precarious Nature	78
	Memory of Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, and Domitian	79
	Peculiar Misery of the Romans under their Tyrants	79
	Insensibility of the Orientals	79
	Knowledge and free Spirit of the Romans	80
	Extent of their Empire left them no Place of Refuge	81