Sat.,48.]
[Footnote 11: Ad Fam., V, 6: "quod de Crasso domum emissem emi eam ipsam
domum H.S., XXXV."]
[Footnote 12: Plutarch, _Life of Marius._]
[Footnote 13: De Repub., III, 7: Cur autem, si pecuniae modus statuendus
fuit feminis, P. Crassi filia posset habere, si unica patri esset, aeris
millies, salva lege?]
[Footnote 14: Cicero, _Paradoxia_, VI.]
[Footnote 15: Pliny, _Hist. Nat.,_XXXIII, 10.]
[Footnote 16: Plutarch, _Crassus_, c. 1 and 2.]
[Footnote 17: Athenaeus, _Deipnosophistae,_VI, 104.]
[Footnote 18: Caesar, _Bell. Civ.,_I, 17.]
SEC. 10.--THE INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY.
The last of the evils which we wish to mention as bringing about the
deplorable condition of the plebeians at the time of the Gracchi, and which
brought more degradation and ruin in its train than all the others, is
slavery. Licinius Stolo had attempted in vain to combat it. Twenty-four
centuries of fruitless legislation since his death has scarcely yet taught
the most enlightened nations that it is a waste of energy to regulate by
law the greatest crime against humanity, so long as the conditions which
produced it remain the same.
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