...moment these conditions as they existed just prior to the decline of the Roman Empire. Ferrero says, "And before long there grew up even among the aristocracy...public and private life at the mercy of passion and self seeking, who were greedy, overbearing and unscrupulous, contemptuous of tradition and dazzled...

...her conquest, and the downfall of Grecian liberty. Let us consider for a moment these con> BRIBERY among the aristocracy a generation of arrogant and...public and private life at the mercy of passion and self seeking, who were greedy, overbearing and unscrupulous, contemptuous of tradition and dazzled...

...more pronounced and determined." In political life the tendencies were the same as in social life. "There grew up, even among the aristocracy, a generation...private life at the mercy of passion and self-seeking. . . . Nowhere was the new school of policy seen to less advantage than in the sphere of foreign policy....

...cities that, in 187 and 177 BC, the Latin towns lodged complaints with the Senate. At the same time, " there grew up, even among the aristocracy, a generation...private life at the mercy of passion and self-seeking (Ferrero)." This disgraceful state of affairs lasted through the second century. "At the first symptoms...

...cities that, in 187 and 177 BC, the Latin towns lodged complaints with the Senate. At the same time, " there grew up, even among the aristocracy, a generation...private life at the mercy of passion and self-seeking (Ferrero)." This disgraceful state of affairs lasted through the second century. "At the first symptoms...