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Persons of this stamp were regularly pronounced by the censors incapable of serving in the burgess-army and of voting in the burgess-assembly.
At the very beginning of the fifth century, Rome had in similar circumstances sent to the field a burgess-army equally strong; after the great extensions of the burgess-domain in the course of that century the number of full burgesses capable of bearing arms must at least have doubled.
The citizens of Carthage still at the conquest of the city amounted to 700,000, including women and children, and were probably at least as numerous at the close of the fifth century; in that century they were able in case of need to set on foot a burgess-army of 40,000 hoplites.
The citizens of Carthage still at the conquest of the city amounted to 700,000, including women and children, and were probably at least as numerous at the close of the fifth century; in that century they were able in case of need to set on foot a burgess-army of 40,000 hoplites.
The army had ceased to be an instrument of the commonwealth; in a political point of view it had no will of its own, but it was doubtless able to adopt that of the master who wielded it; in a military point of view it sank under the ordinary miserable leaders into a disorganized useless rabble, but under a right general it attained a military perfection which the burgess-army could never reach.
The army had ceased to be an instrument of the commonwealth; in a political point of view it had no will of its own, but it was doubtless able to adopt that of the master who wielded it; in a military point of view it sank under the ordinary miserable leaders into a disorganized useless rabble, but under a right general it attained a military perfection which the burgess-army could never reach.
But upon the whole we must be content to learn from this tradition what is indeed evident of itself that this second creation of Rome stood in intimate connection with the commencement of her hegemony over Latium and with the remodelling of her burgess-army, and that, while it originated in one and the same great conception, its execution was not the work either of a single man or of a single generation.
Having in his seventeenth year entered the burgess-army, he had passed through the whole Hannibalic war from the battle on the Trasimene lake to that of Zama; had served under Marcellus and Fabius, under Nero and Scipio; and at Tarentum and Sena, in Africa, Sardinia, Spain, and Macedonia, had shown himself capable as a soldier, a staff- officer, and a general.
Having in his seventeenth year entered the burgess-army, he had passed through the whole Hannibalic war from the battle on the Trasimene lake to that of Zama; had served under Marcellus and Fabius, under Nero and Scipio; and at Tarentum and Sena, in Africa, Sardinia, Spain, and Macedonia, had shown himself capable as a soldier, a staff- officer, and a general.
At the very beginning of the fifth century, Rome had in similar circumstances sent to the field a burgess-army equally strong; after the great extensions of the burgess-domain in the course of that century the number of full burgesses capable of bearing arms must at least have doubled.
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