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THE HISTORY OF OLD ROME

III. From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

From: The History of Rome, by Theodor Mommsen
Translated with the sanction of the author by William Purdie Dickson


The History of Old Rome

Chapter XIII - Faith and Manners

ELPENOR EDITIONS IN PRINT

The Original Greek New Testament

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Hellenism in Politics

No department of human action or thought remained unaffected by this struggle between the old fashion and the new. Even political relations were largely influenced by it The whimsical project of emancipating the Greeks, the well deserved failure of which has already been described, the kindred, likewise Greek, idea of a common interest of republics in opposition to kings, and the desire of propagating Greek polity at the expense of eastern despotism--the two principles that helped to regulate, for instance, the treatment of Macedonia--were fixed ideas of the new school, just as dread of the Carthaginians was the fixed idea of the old; and, if Cato pushed the latter to a ridiculous excess, Philhellenism now and then indulged in extravagances at least quite as foolish.

For example, the conqueror of king Antiochus not only had a statue of him self in Greek costume erected on the Capitol, but also, instead of calling himself in good Latin -Asiaticus-, assumed the unmeaning and anomalous, but yet magnificent and almost Greek, surname of --Asiagenus--.(1)

1. That --Asiagenus-- was the original title of the hero of Magnesia and of his descendants, is established by coins and inscriptions; the fact that the Capitoline Fasti call him -Asiaticus- is one of several traces indicating that these have undergone a non-contemporary revision. The former surname can only he a corruption of --Asiagenus-- --the form which later authors substituted for it--which signifies not the conqueror of Asia, but an Asiatic by birth.

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