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CONTENTS.

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Gaul . . - • • • • • 25

Britain . . • • • • 2< >

Italy. 2 7

The Danube and Illyrian Frontier . . 28

llhaetia ..-•••• 'h*

Noricum and Pannonia , . . . 29

Dalmatia - .j . . . . ib.

Mffifia and Dacia . . . • • 30

Thrace , Macedonia, and Greece . . ib.

Alia Minor . • • • • • 3 1

Syria, Phoenicia, and Paleftine . . 32

Egypt. 3 3

Africa ....... ib.

The Mediterranean, with its Iflands . . 33

• General Idea of the Roman Empire . . ib.

CHAP. II.

Of the Union and internal Profperity of the RomanEmpire in the Age of the Antonines.

- Principles of Government . . . 37

* Univerfal Spirit of Tole ratio n . . . ib.

Of the People . . . . . 38

Of the Philofophers . . . . 39

Of the Magiftrates . . . . 41

In the Provinces ..... 42

At Rome . ..... ib.

Freedom of Rome . . . . . 43

Italy ....... 45

- The Provinces . . . . . 4 6

Colonies, and Municipal Towns . . 47

* Divifion of the Latin and the Greek Provinces 49' A - General Ufe of both,the Greek and Latin Languages 51

- Slaves ....... ib.

Their Treatment . . . . 32

Enfranchifement . . . . . 53

Numbers . . . . . . 34

Populoufnefs of the Roman Empire .