Reflections On the Rise And Fall of the Ancient Republicks
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' The Ple- beians, who beheld with pleafure the fufier- ings of the Patricians, which they efleemed a jufl punifhment for their behaviour under the reign of TuUius, v/ere quickly treated with much greater feverity. For the Tyrant * Dionyf. Halicarn. id. ibid.
^Ot Ancient Re^ublicks. 235 not only abolifhed all the laws which Tullius had eftablifhed to fecure them againft the op- preflions of the Patricians, but loaded them with ruinous taxes, and prohibited all their publick religious afTemblies..., that they might have no opportunity of meeting to form fe- cret confpiracies . Proceeding then upon the conftant maxim of all tyrants, that idlenefs in the people is the parent of all fedition, ht exhaufted them fo much by the flavifh drudg- ery in which he kept them conftantly em- ployed at the publick works, that the Patri- cians rejoiced in their turn at the heavier mi- feries of the Plebeians, whilft neither of them endeavoured to put a period to their common calamities. After the Romans had groaned five and twenty years under this cruel and ignominious bondage, the rape committed by Sextus, the eldeft (on of Tarquin, upon Lucretia, the wife of Collatinus, an eminent Patrician, and near relation of the Tarquin family, produced a coalition of both orders, which ended in the expulfion of Tarquin and his fons, and a folemn, abjuration of monarchical Government.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' The Ple- beians, who beheld with pleafure the fufier- ings of the Patricians, which they efleemed a jufl punifhment for their behaviour under the reign of TuUius, v/ere quickly treated with much greater feverity. For the Tyrant * Dionyf. Halicarn. id. ibid.
^Ot Ancient Re^ublicks. 235 not only abolifhed all the laws which Tullius had eftablifhed to fecure them againft the op- preflions of the Patricians, but loaded them with ruinous taxes, and prohibited all their publick religious afTemblies..., that they might have no opportunity of meeting to form fe- cret confpiracies . Proceeding then upon the conftant maxim of all tyrants, that idlenefs in the people is the parent of all fedition, ht exhaufted them fo much by the flavifh drudg- ery in which he kept them conftantly em- ployed at the publick works, that the Patri- cians rejoiced in their turn at the heavier mi- feries of the Plebeians, whilft neither of them endeavoured to put a period to their common calamities. After the Romans had groaned five and twenty years under this cruel and ignominious bondage, the rape committed by Sextus, the eldeft (on of Tarquin, upon Lucretia, the wife of Collatinus, an eminent Patrician, and near relation of the Tarquin family, produced a coalition of both orders, which ended in the expulfion of Tarquin and his fons, and a folemn, abjuration of monarchical Government.
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