* In spite ofall their conquests, the people were miserably poor; for destruction, in-stead of production, had been their occupation during a series of years ;and though their wants had been supplied for a time by plunder, scarcitywas sure to ensue at last, from a stoppage of the very source of all… … The Ambassadors purchasing „Esculapiua. unerring certainty, until even the highest are absorbed, and few are able,in the end, to keep their heads above water. When circumstancesappear hopeless, remedies become desperate, rash legislation ensues,and thus, during the distresses of Rome, the plebs…
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