Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
Summary
Until all Roman institutions acquired fixt stability, it was quite common for more than five years to elapse before new censors were chosen: but it is, so far as we can know, without example, that it ever happened in a shorter time, and that new censors were elected three times in eight years: for Q. Fabius and P. Decius were elected in 443 (449), eight years after Appius and Plautius, 436 (442). This rapid succession, the choice of two friends of congenial minds, who were the first in their respective orders, leads us to conclude without any doubt, that they were called upon to remedy the evil which by a longer delay it might not have been easy to cure by peaceful means. Now it is well known, that the consequences of Appius's innovation were got the better of by these censors, that peace and a legitimate order of things returned through their means, and that such scandals as the election of Flavius no longer occurred, that they confined the libertini to the four city tribes, that this is universally stated as the means by which that great result was brought about, and that Q. Fabius, who must be regarded as the soul of this decisive undertaking, received in consequence the surname of Maximus.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 320 - 349Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010