CONTENTS

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Preface[5]
CHAP.
I.The Two Republics[9]
II.Roman Legislative Assemblies[15]
III.The First Great Melting Pot[28]
IV.The Early Republic[35]
V.The Period of Foreign Conquest[71]
VI.The Tribes, the Colonies, and the Provinces[89]
VII.The Crisis—The Attempted Reforms of the Gracchi[100]
VIII.Marius and Sulla[168]
IX.Pompey[218]
X.Cicero and Catiline[228]
XI.Julius Cæsar[238]
XII.Post-Mortem[271]
XIII.The Comparison[286]

THE TWO GREAT REPUBLICS

ROME
AND
THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER I

The Two Republics

"How like, how unlike, as we view them together."—Holmes.