[47] Sismondi, Chute de l'Empire Romaine, i. 51.
[48] Ammianus Marcellinus, c. xiv.
[49] Sismondi, Chute de l'Empire Romaine, i. 44.
[50] Finlay, 219, 220.
[51] It is curious to find Tacitus praising the establishment of bounties on the importation of foreign grain by Tiberius, without a word on the evil effects of the system.—Annal. vi. 13. "Quibus e provinciis et quanto majorum, quam Augustus rei frumentariæ copiam advectaret."
[52] Finlay, 53.
[53] Finlay, 105.
[54] Ibid. 137.
[55] Tacitus, Annal. xii. 43.
[56] Michelet, Histoire de France, i. 277.